Belo Corporation and Its Management Essay by Master Researcher

Belo Corporation is a news information and content provider that operates primarily across the North and Southwest parts of the US. Its primary lines of business are television, newspapers, World Wide Web content, and cable news products. For the fiscal year that ended December 31, 2005, Belo recorded earnings in excess of $1.5 billion, which represented a very slight increase over the previous fiscal year. Belo operates 19 television stations which combine to reach an approximate 13.8% of the US viewing audience at any given period; it manages four daily newspapers of which the Dallas Morning News is the largest; and Belo operates just over 30 websites that combine total over 100 million hits a month. This paper examines Belo Corporation, looking at its lines of business, operations, earnings and management.