a short time later, westinghouse announced it was buying cbs outright, a transaction which closed in late 1995. as a condition of the merger, both cbs and group w were forced to sell off several radio stations due to the fcc's then-current ownership limits. cbs also had to sell wpri-tv in providence, rhode island (which was acquired in march 1995) due to a significant signal overlap with wbz-tv. at the time, the fcc normally did not allow common ownership of stations with overlapping signals.