A.H. Belo Corporation makes $800,000 grant to benefit the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, Inc.DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 9, 1996--A.H. Belo Corporation announced today that it made an $800,000 grant to The Dallas Foundation for the establishment of a fund to benefit the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, Inc. (FOIFT). The grant is the lead gift in a $5 million endowment campaign. Formed in 1978, the FOIFT works to encourage a greater appreciation and understanding of the First Amendment and protects the public's right to know through the Texas Public Information Act and the Texas Open Meetings Act. The organization's educational efforts include the distribution of a number of publications: the Texas Freedom of Information Handbook; FOI FOI Freedom Of Information FOI Totalförsvarets Forskningsinstitut (Swedish Defence Research Agency) FOI The Swedish Defence Research Agency FOI Field of Interest FOI Full of It FOI Fruit of Islam Focus, a quarterly newsletter; and Education for Freedom in Texas, a four-volume set intended to help teachers in grades K-12 present First Amendment concepts to their students. FOIFT also sponsors an annual statewide conference on First Amendment issues for educators, politicians, attorneys, media representatives and private citizens, and is also a member of the National Freedom of Information Coalition. Robert W. Decherd, Belo's chairman, president and chief executive officer, said, "We are extremely pleased to assist an organization that for almost 20 years has been an advocate of the public's right to know. The work of the Freedom of Information Foundation merits broad-based support. It is our hope that this lead gift will be the first of many contributions to the endowment campaign to ensure the long-term fulfillment of the Foundation's mission." Belo helped found the FOIFT in 1978 and has been its principal underwriter for the past decade, along with other news organizations and businesses throughout the state. Ralph Langer, senior vice president/executive editor of The Dallas Morning News, and John Miller, executive news director with WFAA-TV, currently serve on the FOIFT board of directors. A.H. Belo Corporation is a leading broadcasting and newspaper publishing company that owns and operates seven network-affiliated VHF (Very High Frequency) The range of electromagnetic frequencies from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. television stations in the top 60 U.S. television markets and four daily newspapers. The Company's broadcast group reaches 8 percent of all U.S. television households. Belo's Broadcast Division includes: WFAA-TV (ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. ) in Dallas-Fort Worth; KHOU-TV (CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. ) in Houston; KIRO-TV (UPN UPN User Principal Name (Microsoft Windows 2000) UPN United Paramount Network UPN Unión del Pueblo Navarro (Navarrese People Union) UPN Umgekehrte Polnische Notation ) in Seattle-Tacoma, Washington; KXTV (ABC) in Sacramento, California “Sacramento” redirects here. For other uses, see Sacramento (disambiguation). Sacramento is the capital of the State of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. ; WVEC-TV (ABC) in Hampton-Norfolk, Virginia; WWL-TV (CBS) in New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded , Louisiana; KOTV (CBS) in Tulsa, Oklahoma Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 45th-largest in the United States. With an estimated population of 382,872 in 2006,[1] it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Statistical Area, a region of 897,752 residents projected to ; and Belo Productions, Inc. (BPI (Bits Per Inch) The measurement of the number of bits stored in one linear inch of a track (storage channel) on a disk or tape. Bit density on magnetic disks has reached 800,000 bpi (800 Kbpi). See tpi, areal density and magnetic disk. BPI - bits per inch ). The Dallas Morning News is Belo's principal newspaper and has the country's eighth largest Sunday circulation (785,934) and ninth largest daily circulation (513,099). For The Dallas Morning News on-line, contact (http://www.dallasnews.com). Belo's other daily newspapers are the Owensboro (KY) Messenger-Inquirer; the Bryan-College Station (TX) Eagle; and the Arlington (TX) Morning News. The success of Belo's media franchises is built upon providing local news, information and community service of the highest caliber. These principles have attracted and built relationships with viewers, readers and advertisers and have guided the Company's success for 154 years. CONTACT: A.H. Belo Corp., Dallas Harold Gaar, 214/977-7650 |
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