citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . march 2008 learn how and when to remove this template message a. h. belo corporation type public traded as nyse ahc industry newspapers predecessor belo founded 2008 spun off from belo headquarters dallas texas united states key people robert w. decherd chairman president and ceo products list of newspapers revenue us 487.3 million 2010 1 operating income us 138.1 million 2010 1 net income us 124.2 million 2010 1 total assets us 420.0 million 2010 1 total equity us 199.9 million 2010 1 number of employees 2 200 2010 1 website ahbelo.com the belo building in dallas the headquarters of a. h. belo corporation a. h. belo corporation bilo is a dallas based media company that owns newspapers in north texas . 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 . 2 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 . the split was structured so that belo corporation was the legal successor of the original company . 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 . newspapers edit the dallas morning news dallas texas al d a spanish language dallas texas denton record chronicle denton texas the company also formerly published the providence journal the riverside press enterprise quick a free weekly in dallas and the business press a weekly business publication in riverside . for decades news texan inc. an a.h. belo subsidiary was the owner of the dallas morning news as well as other newspapers in the suburban dallas area . belo acquired seven newspapers in 1963 which included the garland daily news the grand prairie daily news and the richardson daily news . the newspaper group would become dallas fort worth suburban newspapers inc. 3 belo executives specifically shifted the newspapers to afternoon delivery to compete with the dallas times herald the rival of the chain s flagship dallas morning news according to judith garrett segura author of belo from newspapers to new media she claims the newspapers were not profitable for roughly two years . 3 these newspapers would operate and be published relatively independently until the late 1980s . under increased advertising pressures and laws prohibiting media monopolies in urban markets the newspapers were ultimately absorbed into the dallas morning news . references edit notes a b c d e f 2010 form 10 k a.h. belo corporation . united states securities and exchange commission . contact us . a. h. belo . retrieved on november 21 2009 . a b http www.fundinguniverse.com company histories a h belo corporation history further reading segura judith garrett 2010 . belo from newspapers to new media . austin university of texas press . isbn 0292718462 . external links edit dallas fort worth portal companies portal journalism portal a.h. belo official website detailed history in the handbook of texas online v t e a. h. belo newspapers the dallas morning news denton record chronicle al d a related topics alfred horatio belo founder belo corporation former parent company robert w. decherd ceo retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title a. h. belo & oldid 743419033 categories companies listed on the new york stock exchangemedia companies established in 1842american companies established in 2008media companies of the united statescompanies based in dallashidden categories articles needing additional references from march 2008all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages espa olitalianokiswahilisvenska edit links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 15 33 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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