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The '''''Fort Worth Star-Telegram''''' is the major daily [[newspaper]] serving [[Fort Worth, Texas|Fort Worth]] and the western half of the [[North Texas]] area known as the [[Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex|Metroplex]]. Its area of domination is checked by its main rival, ''[[The Dallas Morning News]]'', which is published from the eastern half of the Metroplex. The ''Fort Worth Star-Telegram'' is now owned by the [[Knight Ridder]] newspaper group. |
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Revision as of 00:21, 5 October 2005
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram is the major daily newspaper serving Fort Worth and the western half of the North Texas area known as the Metroplex. Its area of domination is checked by its main rival, The Dallas Morning News, which is published from the eastern half of the Metroplex. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram is now owned by the Knight Ridder newspaper group.
History
In May 1905, Amon G. Carter accepted a job as an advertising space salesman in Fort Worth. A few months later, he agreed to help finance and run a new newspaper in town. The Fort Worth Star printed its first newspaper on February 1, 1906, with Carter as the advertising manager.
The Star lost money, and was in danger of going bankrupt when Carter had an audacious idea: raise additional money and purchase his newspaper's main competition, the Fort Worth Telegram. In November 1908, the Star purchased the Telegram for $100,000, and the two newspapers combined on January 1, 1909 into the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
From 1923 until after World War II, the Star-Telegram had the largest circulation of any newspaper in the South, serving not just Fort Worth but also West Texas, New Mexico, and western Oklahoma. The newspaper created WBAP, the first radio station in Fort Worth, in 1922; and followed it with Texas' first television station, WBAP-TV, in 1948.
The circulation area is the Fort Worth/Arlington metro area (four counties) and 14 surrounding counties. The readership is 501,400 daily and 676,200 on Sunday with circulation at 237,318 daily and 332,861 on Sunday. The newspaper's primary market is the four-county Fort Worth/Arlington metro area, which is the western part of the fifth-largest U.S. metro area (Combined Statistical Area) Dallas/Fort Worth/Arlington. Fort Worth/Arlington ranks 29th most populous as a metro area.
Pulitzer Prizes
- 1981 Pulitzer Prize in Spot News Photography - Larry Price of the Star-Telegram "for his photographs from Liberia."
- 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service - Mark J. Thompson "For reporting which revealed that nearly 250 U.S. servicemen had lost their lives as a result of a design problem in helicopters built by Bell Helicopter - a revelation which ultimately led the Army to ground almost 600 Huey helicopters pending their modification."
Trivia
- Part of an episode of the CBS show Walker, Texas Ranger was filmed at the Star-Telegram.
- Two Star-Telegram writers, the late Jerry Flemmons and Michael Cochran (former AP writer), served as pallbearers for Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963.
- The Star-Telegram is the nation's oldest continuously operating online newspaper. The Web site Star-Telegram.com (and its predecessors) has been available electronically since 1982.
References
- Flemmons, Jerry. Amon: The Texan Who Played Cowboy for America. Lubbock, TX : Texas Tech, 1998.