Belo announces Broadcast Division Washington Bureau Chief.DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 1996--A. H. Belo Corporation announced that David M. Cassidy has been named Washington Bureau Chief, a new position in Belo's Broadcast Division. Cassidy will report to Marty Haag, Belo's senior vice president/news for the Broadcast Division, and will supervise a staff of 10 broadcast journalists. Belo's Broadcast Division Washington Bureau will be formed by consolidating the bureaus of its three largest stations: 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. ) Dallas; KHOU-TV (CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. ) Houston; and 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 ) Seattle. The bureau, which will include a production studio, is scheduled to open in January of 1997. Under the new structure, the Broadcast Division Washington Bureau will develop and cover stories for Belo's seven television stations. Daily feeds will include frequent Washington-based broadcasts with national newsmakers. Cassidy joined Belo's flagship station, WFAA-TV, as a reporter in 1974. During his tenure at WFAA WFAA Washington Financial Aid Association WFAA Waste Facilities Audit Association (Europe) he served as Fort Worth Bureau Chief and a general assignments reporter. While at WFAA, Cassidy's reporting on the 1985 Delta crash at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (IATA: DFW, ICAO: KDFW, FAA LID: DFW) is located between the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth,[3] was cited when WFAA won a National Emmy in the news and documentary category for its outstanding coverage of the story. In 1988 Cassidy was named news director of KOTV, Belo's CBS affiliate in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 1990 he was appointed news director of WVEC-TV, Belo's ABC affiliate in Hampton- Norfolk, Virginia. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Cassidy is a 1974 graduate of the Medill School of Journalism Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism (often just called Medill) is one of the premier journalism, integrated marketing, and media schools in the United States. at Northwestern University. Belo owns and operates network-affiliated television stations WFAA-TV (ABC) in Dallas-Fort Worth; KHOU-TV (CBS) in Houston, Texas; KIRO-TV (UPN) in Seattle-Tacoma, Washington; KXTV (ABC) in Sacramento, California; WVEC- TV (ABC) in Hampton-Norfolk, Virginia; WWL-TV (CBS) in New Orleans, Louisiana; and KOTV (CBS) in Tulsa, Oklahoma; and owns Belo Productions, Inc. (BPI). Belo also owns The Dallas Morning News; the Owensboro (Ky.) Messenger-Inquirer; the Bryan-College Station (Tx.) Eagle; the Arlington (Tx.) Morning News; and eight community newspapers in the suburban Dallas-Fort Worth area. Shares of Belo Series A Common Stock are traded on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. under the symbol BLC. CONTACT: Marty Haag, A. H. Belo Corporation, 214/977-6687. |
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