Belo

Belo Corp. (pronounced /ˈbeeːlow/) 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 Corp. 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. Belo has its headquarters in the Belo Building in Downtown Dallas.^[1]

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]

Television stations

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

† = part of a duopoly

Former Belo-Owned Television Stations

Cable networks

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.

References

1. ^ "Contact Us." Belo. Retrieved on November 21, 2009.
2. ^ "Belo to Create Separate Television and Newspaper Businesses". Belo Corp.. 2007-10-01. http://www.belo.com/pressRelease.x2?release=20071001-1279.html.
3. ^ http://www.belo.com/pressRelease.x2?release=20080208-1532.html

External links

• Belo.com

Categories: Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange | Companies based in Dallas, Texas | Media companies of the United States | Television broadcasting companies of the United States | Belo Corporation | Companies established in 1926