Belo Corporation
Belo (pronounced "BEE-low") (NYSE: BLC) is a Dallas, Texas-based media company that owns 19 television stations, four daily newspapers 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.
The company traces its roots back to 1842 with the introduction of The Daily News in Galveston, Texas. The name A.H. Belo Corporation was applied to the company in 1926.
Belo's companies and publications
Newspapers
- The Business Press (Riverside, California)
- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, Texas)
- Al Día (Spanish language newspaper in Dallas)
- Quick (a smaller, free daily produced by Dallas Morning News staff)
- Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Texas)
- The Difference Desert Daily (Riverside, California)
- La Prensa en Linea (Riverside, California)
- The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
- The Providence Journal (Providence, Rhode Island)
- Texas Almanac
Television stations
- KASW (WB - Phoenix, Arizona)
- KBEJ (UPN - San Antonio, Texas)
- KENS (CBS - San Antonio, Texas)
- KGW (NBC - Portland, Oregon)
- KHOU (CBS - Houston, Texas)
- KING (NBC - Seattle/Tacoma, Washington)
- KMOV (CBS - St. Louis, Missouri)
- KMSB (FOX - Tucson, Arizona)
- KONG (Independent - Seattle/Tacoma, Washington)
- KREM (CBS - Spokane, Washington)
- KSKN (UPN - Spokane, Washington)
- KTTU (UPN - Tucson, Arizona)
- KTVB (NBC - Boise, Idaho)
- KTVK (Independent - Phoenix, Arizona)
- KVUE (ABC - Austin, Texas)
- WCNC (NBC - Charlotte, North Carolina)
- WFAA (ABC - Dallas, Texas)
- WHAS (ABC - Louisville, Kentucky)
- WVEC (ABC - Hampton/Norfolk, Virginia)
- WWL (CBS - New Orleans, Louisiana)
Cable networks
In addition, Belo also operates Belo Interactive, a division that not only operates the web sites for their media properties, but also invests in a number of small technology companies. One of their 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 and all traces of the CueCat were removed from Belo's properties.