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Belo Corporation

Type	Public: (NYSE: BLC)
Founded	Dallas, Texas (1926)
Headquarters	Dallas, Texas
Key people	Dunia Shive, president and CEO
Industry	Television, Interactive media
Revenue	▲ 733.5 Million (USD) (2008)
Employees	6,600
Website	www.belo.com

Belo Corp. (pronounced /ˈbɛloʊ/) NYSE: BLC is a Dallas-based media company that owns 20 television stations and two regional cable television news channels. The company was previously known as A.H. Belo after one of the early owners of the company, Alfred Horatio Belo, now the name of the newspaper company spun off from Belo early in 2008. The company is the oldest continually-operated corporation in the state of Texas. Belo has its headquarters in the Belo Building in Downtown Dallas.^[1]

[edit] History

The company traces its roots back to 1842 with the introduction of The Daily News in Galveston, Texas. Its flagship, The Dallas Morning News, has been publishing since 1885. The name A.H. Belo Corporation was applied to the company in 1926. The name was shortened to Belo Corp. in 2002.^{[citation needed]}

On October 1, 2007, Belo announced the separation of its newspaper and television businesses by spinning off its newspaper business to shareholders as the A. H. Belo Corporation, officially completed in February 2008. The television business retains the Belo Corp. name (without the "A. H." initials),^[2] with the television business being the legal successor to the prior company.^[3]

[edit] Television stations

• Unlike most other ABC network affiliates, the Belo-owned ABC affiliates broadcast in 1080i instead of 720p.

† = part of a duopoly
¹ = Owned by HIC Broadcasting and Managed by Belo.
² = Owned by Corridor Television, LLP and Managed by Belo.

[edit] Former Belo-Owned Television Stations

[edit] Cable networks

[edit] Online presence

In addition, Belo operates websites for each of its properties. The sites were formerly part of a separate company, known as Belo Interactive. In late 2004, the company began the process of reintegrating the sites in to sister media properties. One of its most infamous investments was in the failed CueCat and its parent company, Digital Convergence. Belo integrated its media properties to be able to use the device, but it never took off.

Belo is also one of the major investors in Classified Ventures, LLC.

In late 2009, Belo began transitioning the Web operations of its television stations from a largely in-house operation to the Broadcast Interactive Media platform. The first such relaunches were the Web sites of its Arizona station properties—KTVK/KASW in Phoenix and KMSB/KTTU in Tucson—which launched in September 2009. The transition (at least for the major Belo television properties) was completed on November 19, 2009 when WFAA in the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex relaunched its Web site. This leaves KFWD, a Belo-managed independent station owned by a third party and operated by WFAA, as the only Belo-managed broadcasting property that has yet to relaunch its site.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Dallas portal

• Belo.com
• BeloInteractive.com