AH Belo

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AH Belo Corporation

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legal form Corporation
ISIN US0012821023
founding 1842
Seat Dallas , Texas , United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
management Robert W. Decherd
(Chairman, President and CEO )
Number of employees 982
sales 202.3 million US dollars
Branch media
Website www.ahbelo.com
As of December 31, 2018

The AH Belo Corporation is a listed Texan media company based in Dallas . AH Belo publishes The Dallas Morning News , Dallas’s main newspaper , as well as its Spanish-language sister newspaper Al Día. The Dallas Morning News is one of the top-selling newspapers in the United States . In the first quarter of 2018, the newspaper had a daily circulation of around 200,000 copies.

The AH Belo company goes back to a newspaper publisher founded in Galveston in 1842 . Under the editor-in-chief Willard Richardson, The Daily News became known throughout Texas and was soon distributed by rail across the state. In 1865 Alfred Horatio Belo took over the post of editor-in-chief and became the majority owner of the publishing house. From 1885, The Dallas Morning News was published. It wasn't until 1926 that the publisher's managing director, George Bannerman Dealey, renamed the company to AH Belo Corporation. Alfred Horatio Belo died in 1901 at the age of 61. From 1950 the AH Belo Corporation rose increasingly into the emerging business of operating television stations. The company's shares were traded OTC from 1981 and on the NYSE from 1983 . In 2001 the name was changed from AH Belo Corporation to Belo Corporation . A separation of the newspaper business from the television stations in 2008 led to the establishment of a new company which took on the old name of the group as a whole, AH Belo Corporation. The AH Belo Corporation became a pure newspaper publisher, while the Belo Corporation continued to exist as a pure operator of television studios. Belo Corporation was acquired by Gannett in 2013 .

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  1. ↑ AH Belo: Board of Directors , accessed September 29, 2019
  2. ↑ AH Belo: SEC-Filing Form 10-K , accessed September 29, 2019
  3. ↑ Statista: Circulation of selected daily newspapers worldwide in the 1st quarter of 2018 , accessed on September 29, 2019
  4. ↑ AH Belo: Timeline , accessed September 29, 2019
  5. ↑ USA Today: Gannett completes its Belo acquisition , accessed September 29, 2019