Fort Worth Star-Telegram

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.

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1905 - Amon G. Carter - February 1 - 1906

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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.

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1908 - January 1 - 1909

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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.

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1923 - West Texas - New Mexico - Oklahoma - 1922 - WBAP-TV - 1948

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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.

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