A. H. Belo
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A. H. Belo Corporation is a Dallas
-based media company that owns four daily newspapers and five smaller newspapers. The current corporation was formed when Belo Corporation
separated its broadcasting and publishing operations into two corporations. A. H. Belo also owns a part interest in Classified Ventures
. Its CEO is Robert Decherd
who had headed Belo before the spin off. The company has its headquarters in the Belo Building in Downtown Dallas
.
The company was organized as a fully owned subsidiary of Belo Corporation on October 1, 2007, then taken public by issuing the new stock to Belo shareholders and starting trade on February 8, 2008. While technically this corporate entity was formed in 2008, the organization traces its roots and history back to 1842. The Belo Corporation used the A. H. Belo name from 1926 to 2002 when it was shortened to simply Belo. With the split the old name, which honors Alfred Horatio Belo
, founder of the Dallas Morning News, was revived.
Dallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
-based media company that owns four daily newspapers and five smaller newspapers. The current corporation was formed when Belo Corporation
Belo
Belo Corp. is a Dallas-based media company that owns 20 commercial broadcasting television stations and two regional 24-hour cable news television channels. The company was previously known as A.H. Belo Corp. after one of the early owners of the company, Alfred Horatio Belo, now the name of the...
separated its broadcasting and publishing operations into two corporations. A. H. Belo also owns a part interest in Classified Ventures
Classified Ventures
Classified Ventures, LLC, is a Delaware limited liability company, based in Chicago, owned by a strategic joint-venture of five large media companies -- A. H. Belo, Gannett Company, Inc., The McClatchy Company, Tribune Company and The Washington Post Company -- to capitalize on the revenue growth...
. Its CEO is Robert Decherd
Robert Decherd
Robert Decherd is the Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer of A. H. Belo Corporation of Dallas, which owns six daily newspapers, including The Dallas Morning News, The Providence Journal and Riverside, California's Press-Enterprise. He is also Chairman of Belo Corp...
who had headed Belo before the spin off. The company has its headquarters in the Belo Building in Downtown Dallas
Downtown Dallas
Downtown Dallas is the Central Business District in Dallas, Texas USA, located in the geographic center of the city. The area termed "Downtown" has traditionally been defined as bounded by the downtown freeway loop: bounded on the east by I-345 Downtown Dallas is the Central Business District...
.
The company was organized as a fully owned subsidiary of Belo Corporation on October 1, 2007, then taken public by issuing the new stock to Belo shareholders and starting trade on February 8, 2008. While technically this corporate entity was formed in 2008, the organization traces its roots and history back to 1842. The Belo Corporation used the A. H. Belo name from 1926 to 2002 when it was shortened to simply Belo. With the split the old name, which honors Alfred Horatio Belo
Alfred Horatio Belo
Alfred Horatio Belo was the founder of The Dallas Morning News newspaper in Dallas, Texas, along with business partner George Bannerman Dealey. The company A. H. Belo Corporation, owner of The Dallas Morning News, was named in his honor.-Early life:Belo was born in Salem, North Carolina in May 1839...
, founder of the Dallas Morning News, was revived.
Newspapers
- The Dallas Morning NewsThe Dallas Morning NewsThe Dallas Morning News is the major daily newspaper serving the Dallas, Texas area, with a circulation of 264,459 subscribers, the Audit Bureau of Circulations reported in September 2010...
(Dallas, TexasDallas, TexasDallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
)- Al DíaAl Día (Dallas)Al Día is a Spanish language newspaper that serves the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. It is published by A. H. Belo and is the Spanish language counterpart to The Dallas Morning News. It has its headquarters in Downtown Dallas.- External links :*...
(Spanish languageSpanish languageSpanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
- Dallas, Texas) - NeighborsgoNeighborsgoNeighborsgo is a weekly community newspaper published by The Dallas Morning News. Each Friday, 11 print editions are distributed to more than 340,000 households in the Dallas area. The material in print editions comes primarily from user-submitted material on the Web site, neighborsgo.com, where...
(community weekly) - QuickQuick (newspaper)Quick is a defunct Dallas-Fort Worth area free weekly newspaper published from 2003 to 2011. As the name implies, it was delivered in a quick-to-read format: a tabloid ranging in page count from 20 to 40...
(free weekly produced by Dallas Morning News - Dallas, Texas)
- Al Día
- Denton Record-ChronicleDenton Record-ChronicleThe Denton Record-Chronicle is the official newspaper for the city of Denton, Texas and Denton County since 1899.William Edwards consolidated the Denton Chronicle and the Denton County Record , as a weekly newspaper. It wasn't until August 3, 1903 that the paper was published daily...
(Denton, TexasDenton, TexasThe city of Denton is the county seat of Denton County, Texas in the United States. Its population was 119,454 according to the 2010 U.S. Census, making it the eleventh largest city in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex...
) - The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CaliforniaRiverside, CaliforniaRiverside is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, and the county seat of the eponymous county. Named for its location beside the Santa Ana River, it is the largest city in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metropolitan area of Southern California, 4th largest inland California...
)- The Business Press (Riverside, California)
- La Prensa (Spanish languageSpanish languageSpanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
- Riverside, California)
- The Providence JournalThe Providence JournalThe Providence Journal, nicknamed the ProJo, is a daily newspaper serving the metropolitan area of Providence, Rhode Island and is the largest newspaper in Rhode Island. The newspaper, first published in 1829 and the oldest continuously-published daily newspaper in the United States, was purchased...
(Providence, Rhode IslandProvidence, Rhode IslandProvidence is the capital and most populous city of Rhode Island and was one of the first cities established in the United States. Located in Providence County, it is the third largest city in the New England region...
)
External links
- A.H. Belo official website
- Detailed history in the Handbook of TexasHandbook of TexasThe Handbook of Texas is a comprehensive encyclopedia of Texas geography, history, and historical persons published by the Texas State Historical Association .-History:...
online