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Belo Corporation was a Dallas-based media company that owned 20 commercial broadcasting television stations and two regional 24-hour cable news television channels. The company was previously known as A. H. Belo Corporation 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 had its headquarters in the Belo Building in Downtown Dallas, designed by Dallas architects Omniplan and constructed between 1983 and 1985.〔"(Contact Us )." Belo. Retrieved on November 21, 2009. See also Judith Garrett Segura, ''Belo: From Newspapers to New Media''. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008.〕 ==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 Corporation in 2002. On October 1, 2007, Belo announced the separation of its newspaper and television businesses by spinning off its newspaper business to shareholders as A. H. Belo, officially completed in February 2008. The television business retains the Belo Corporation name (without the "A. H." initials).〔(【引用サイトリンク】date=2007-10-01 )〕 The spin-off was structured so that the broadcasting company is the legal successor to the prior company.〔http://www.belo.com/pressRelease.x2?release=20080208-1532.html〕 In September 2010, Belo became the first non-ABC group to sign on with the Live Well Network, adding it to 5 of their stations (WFAA, KMOV, WCNC-TV, WVEC, & WWL-TV) on November 8, 2010. On June 13, 2013, Gannett Company announced plans to buy Belo for $1.5 billion and the assumption of debt.〔(【引用サイトリンク】date=2013-06-13 )〕 Because of ownership conflicts that exist in markets where both Belo and Gannett own television stations and newspapers, Gannett planned to sell six Belo-owned stations--KMOV in St. Louis, WHAS-TV in Louisville, KMSB in Tucson, KGW-TV in Portland, Oregon and KTVK and KASW in Phoenix—to Sander Media, LLC, owned by former Belo executive Jack Sander. Gannett would have provided some services to the Sander stations under joint services agreements. Due to concerns about any possible future consolidation of operations of Gannett- and Belo-owned properties in markets where both own television stations or collusion involving the Gannett and Sander stations in retransmission consent negotiations, anti-media-consolidation groups (such as Free Press) and pay television providers (such as Time Warner Cable and DirecTV) called for the FCC to block the acquisition.〔(Free Press, Others Ask FCC To Deny Some Gannett/Belo Transfers ), ''Broadcasting & Cable'', July 24, 2013.〕〔(Public Interest Groups, Cable Companies Oppose Gannett-Belo Merger ), ''AdWeek'', July 25, 2013.〕 The concerns were especially pronounced in St. Louis, since the merged company would have controlled two of the three news departments run by "Big Four" stations in that city--KMOV, which was to have been sold to Sander, and Gannett-owned KSDK. On December 16, 2013, the United States Department of Justice threatened to block the deal unless Gannett, Belo and Sander completely divested KMOV to a government-approved third-party company that would be barred from entering into any agreements with Gannett, in order to fully preserve competition in advertising sales with KSDK. Justice claimed that Gannett and Sander would be so closely aligned that Gannett would have dominated spot advertising in St. Louis. On December 20, the deal was approved by the FCC.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/72866/fcc-oks-gannettbelo-and-tribunelocal )〕 With the completion of the deal on December 23,〔(Gannett Completes Its Acquisition of Belo ), TVNewsCheck, Retrieved 23 December 2013〕 on the same day Gannett and Sander agreed to sell KMOV, KTVK and control of KASW for $407.5 million to Meredith Corporation (which owns KPHO-TV in the Phoenix market); Sander served as caretaker owner of those stations during the sale process, and SagamoreHill Broadcasting would take on KASW's license.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/72891/meredith-buying-three-stations-from-gannett )〕 Meredith's purchase of KMOV was completed on February 28, 2014, and its purchase of KTVK, along with SagamoreHill's purchase of KASW, were completed on June 19. SagamoreHill has since been forced to divest KASW to the Nexstar Broadcasting Group; that sale closed on January 30, 2015. On June 29, 2015, Gannett split into two companies, one specializing in print media and named "Gannett," and the other specializing in broadcast and digital media. The latter company, Tegna, retained most of the Belo stations and is the legal successor to the company that previously bore Gannett's name. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Belo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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