What is Fort Worth Star Telegram?
Fort Worth Star Telegram is the main daily newspaper issued in Fort Worth for the western part of North Texas with the eastern area dominated by the rival publication Dallas Morning News. It goes without saying that very tight competition exists between the two newspapers that claim prominence over their part of the United States. Presently, the Fort Worth Star Telegram belongs to The McClatchy Company, but its beginnings are found sometime in the early years of the 20th century when the first edition of the newspaper was issued for the first time. It all started with Amon G. Carter being hired as an advertising space salesman in Fort Worth, and in a few months he got to finance and run the town’s newspaper that finally came in print on February 1, 1906.
The first name of the publication was the Fort Worth Star, and it did not have the popular acclaim Carter had wished for. Given a serious financial loss, Carter came to the decision of buying the rival publication the Fort Worth Telegram, and thus the Fort Worth Star Telegram came into being at the beginning of 1909. Between 1923 and the aftermath of the Second World War, The Fort Worth Star Telegram covered one of the largest distribution areas in the South of the United States.
At the time, the Fort Worth Star Telegram was distributed around New Mexico, the West of Oklahoma and in West Texas. In 1948, the newspaper supported and actually put into practice the creation of the first television station in Texas, WBAP-TV. The Carter family continued to run the newspaper for other thirty years, but in 1974, they sold it to Capital Cities Communications, the group that also bought the ABC TV network. When the Walt Disney Company bought Capital Cities/ABC group, the Fort Worth Star Telegram changed owners once more.
It was only in June 2006 that the Fort Worth Star Telegram came into the possession of its present owner. The circulation area of the publication is surely reduced as compared to its early history, but the situation is explainable given the large number of newspapers, magazines and tabloids that serve the American market daily. The newspaper can also be accessed online, and it is the oldest American publication with Internet operation. Presently, the Fort Worth Star Telegram undergoes all sorts of market adaptations both in the electronic and the paper format so that it may be perceived as both reader friendly and quality promoter.
