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CINCINNATI, March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Award-winning investigative reporter Mark Greenblatt, will join The E.W. Scripps Company (NYSE: SSP) as a national investigative correspondent for the Scripps Howard News Service in Washington, D.C., effective April 15. Formerly with ABC News as a national correspondent, Greenblatt specializes in computer-assisted reporting and the mining of public data through the Freedom of Information Act. His goal is compelling multiple-platform content...

DALLAS, Jan. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Television company Belo Corp. (NYSE: BLC) announced today that its stations provided free airtime to 135 congressional and gubernatorial candidates across the U.S. during the 2012 election season through the Company's "It's Your Time" program. In addition, Belo maximized the impact of its voter education efforts by broadcasting an average of 120 minutes per week of political coverage on each of its 14 news-producing television stations in the...

ATLANTA, July 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Martin Luther King III and Ambassador Andrew Young announced today that Bounce TV (http://bouncetv.com), the first-ever over-the-air broadcast television network for African-American audiences, will debut on Monday, September 26 at 12:00 Noon Eastern Time. "September 26 will be an important milestone as we launch the first-ever independently owned and operated broadcast television network featuring African Americans," said Mr. King III. "Beginning...

HOUSTON, March 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- With energy-related issues increasingly in the headlines not only in the U.S. Gulf Coastal area but worldwide, CBS affiliate KHOU-TV is now bringing Platts Energy Week, the weekly independent all-energy news and talk television program, to the greater Houston metropolitan area. The program's syndication to Houston was marked at a reception Tuesday night at the Petroleum Club of Houston attended by more than 150 energy executives and media. "We are...

DALLAS, April 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Belo Corp. (NYSE: BLC), one of the nation's largest pure-play, publicly-traded television companies, announced today that Peter L. Diaz has been named president/Media Operations. Diaz has served as executive vice president/Television Operations since November 2007 and joined the Management Committee of Belo Corp. in February 2008. "Peter is an outstanding broadcast executive with more than 30 years of industry expertise. We're fortunate to have...

DALLAS, April 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Belo Corp. (NYSE: BLC), one of the nations largest pure-play, publicly-traded television companies, announced today that KHOU-TV, its CBS affiliate in Houston, has been selected as a 2009 George Foster Peabody Award winner. The winners of the 69th annual awards were announced Wednesday morning by Webcast at the University of Georgia, where the awards program is based. KHOU's winning piece, Under Fire: Discrimination and Corruption in the Texas...

DALLAS, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Belo Corp. (NYSE: BLC), one of the nation's largest pure-play, publicly-traded television companies, announced today that two of its television stations were honored with 2010 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton Awards for excellence in broadcast journalism at a ceremony held last night at Columbia University. KHOU-TV in Houston and WWL-TV in New Orleans were two of only 14 winners chosen to receive this award which is one of the most...

DALLAS, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Belo Corp. (NYSE: BLC), one of the nation's largest pure-play, publicly-traded television companies, announced today that its television stations have won three national Edward R. Murrow Awards and one UNITY Award for 2009 from the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA). One Murrow Award went to KHOU-TV in Houston in the Hard News category and two Awards went to KTVB-TV in Boise in the categories of Continuing Coverage and Videography. The UNITY...

A man desperate to sell a luxury home in Houston in the current down U.S. real estate market is offering to throw in a Lexus to make a sale, a broker says. Broker Pam Harris said upon hearing that Barry Reynolds had offered to add a new car to any finalized sale of his 5,500-square-foot home, she was immediately intrigued, KHOU-TV, Houston, said Monday. She said by offering the new car to potential buyers, Reynolds was making his real estate offering more attractive to the limited number of...

An elderly Houston woman received $4,700 water bill that claimed she used 495,000 gallons of water in a single month -- a feat plumbers called impossible. Annabelle Baylous said her water bill is usually about $10, so she was shocked to see the amount on the bill she received this month, KHOU-TV, Houston, reported Thursday. Over $4,000! Baylous said. This is the worst Christmas present I could get. KHOU said plumbers examined the home, which has only one bathroom and one occupant, and...