After working together for years through a trade association, a dozen broadcasters are now forming a financially-backed joint venture to develop a national mobile service, including live and on-demand video, local and national news and entertainment from both TV and print companies. The joint venture is upping the financial stakes…

While the fretting over newspapers and advertising has gotten a lot of ink, local TV stations have been faring just as badly the past year. While Belo Corp. (NYSE: BLC), the broadcast TV operator not to be confused with its newspaper cousin AH Belo (NYSE: AHC), swung to profit in…

Belo Corp. (NYSE: BLC), the broadcast TV operator not to be confused with its newspaper cousin AH Belo (NYSE: AHC), saw its losses widen in Q4 as revenues fell 8.8 percent. The Dallas company lost $358.8 million ($3.51 per share) compared with Q407’s $333.4 million ($3.23 per share) loss. Pro…

Ad revenues tied to the summer Olympics weren’t enough to offset weakness in local broadcaster Belo (NYSE: BLC) Corp.‘s spot business, as total rev were down 6.4 percent in in Q3. Net income was $14.4 million, or $0.14 a share, compared with about $15 million, or $0.15 a share. Analysts…

Following Friday’s report from sibling broadcaster Belo Corp. the newly separate AH Belo (NYSE: AHC) newspaper publisher reported earnings this morning: The publisher of the Dallas Morning-News and two other papers said revenue in Q2 fell a steep 15 percent to $163.3 million, as ad revenue was down 21 percent.…

Local broadcaster Belo Corp (NYSE: BLC).—not to be confused with its newspaper sibling AH Belo (NYSE: AHC) from which it split last year—saw Q2 net earnings drop to 27.7 percent to $26.3 million from last year’s $36.4 million. Revenues slid as well, coming in $188.9 million from $198.2 million, a…

ResponseLogix, a provider of lead response services for the online automotive industry, has raised an $8 million first round led by RP Partners and Shasta Ventures along with sister firms A.H. Belo (NYSE: BLC) Corporation and the Belo Corp. The SF-based startup, which launched last year, claims that online auto…

Belo Corp. (NYSE: BLC), whose publishing and broadcast units are now trading as separate units, reported group Q4 revenues of $407 million, down 6.8 percent from $436.6 million. The company lost $333 million in the quarter, but this was mainly due to a big, one-time impairment charge of $367 million…

Belo: The Dallas-based media company’s board of directors has approved the spin-off of Belo’s (NYSE: BLC) TV and newspaper units into separate businesses. The plan was announced in early October. Existing Belo shareholders will receive a tax-free distribution of shares in the newly formed A.H. Belo, which will own the…

One of the reasons Belo (NYSE: BLC) executives cited for splitting the company in two back in October was to concentrate on its partnership with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). Belo is making good on that intention, though at the time, it may have seemed that the big push would come mainly…

With Belo (NYSE: BLC) Corp preparing to split between newspapers and broadcast, there’s concern about what value there is in the newspaper assets. Belo Chairman and CEO Robert W. Decherd used his opportunity to present at the UBS Global Media & Communications Conference to explain just that. (I didn’t get…

Belo (NYSE: BLC), the publisher of the Dallas Morning News and Providence Journal daily newspapers, posted lower net earnings of $18.8 million, or $0.18 per share, for Q3, versus last year’s $19.2 million, or $0.19 per share, a 2.1 percent decline. The Dallas-based newspaper publisher and broadcast TV station owner…