THE WASHINGTON POST COMPANY

'The Washington Post Company' (NYSE:WPO) is an American media company, best known for owning the newspaper it is named after, ''The Washington Post'', and Newsweek magazine. It also owns or partly owns a number of television stations, web sites, a suburban Maryland chain of community newspapers, a cable-television company, a daily newspaper in Everett, Washington, and Kaplan, a leading global provider of educational services.
The Washington Post Company history dates back to 1877, when the Post was first published. The Washington Post Company was incorporated in the District of Columbia in 1889^[1], and remained a District of Columbia corporation until it changed its state of incorporation to Delaware in 2003.^[2] It is a public company, trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol WPO, and went public in 1971. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C.. Apart from the family of Katharine Graham, Berkshire Hathaway is also a substantial shareholder.
In the first quarter of 2005, the company had revenue of $833.9 million, up from $759.0 million the previous year.

Contents

Newspapers

Magazines

Broadcast Television

Cable Television

Education

Internet

References

See also

External links

Newspapers

★ ''The Washington Post''

★ ''The Herald'' - Everett, Washington

★ ''Express'' - A free daily commuter paper in the Washington D.C. Metro Area.

★ The Gazette (35 weekly newspapers and a subscription-based state-wide weekend business and politics newspaper, in Maryland; plus military newspapers and suburban Maryland real estate guides)

★ Greater Washington Publishing

Magazines

★ ''Newsweek''

★ ''Newsweek International''

★ ''Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel''

Broadcast Television

The official name of the broadcast division, dating back to the 1970s, is 'Post-Newsweek Stations' and is one of two divisions not based out of Washington (see below). Post-Newsweek stations currently owns 6 VHF stations, all but one of which network affiliates in the Top 50 markets. All the stations are branded under the "Local Mandate," which happens to be a station standardization adopted by Post-Newsweek. (examples: KPRC is "Local2" and WPLG is "Local10").

'Current DMA#'	'Market'	'Station'	'Channel (DT)'	'Current Affiliation'	'Acquired'	'Notes'
10	Houston, Texas	'KPRC-TV'	2 (35)	NBC	1994
11	Detroit, Michigan	'WDIV'	4 (45)	NBC	1978	'Flagship'
16	Miami, Florida	'WPLG'	10 (9)	ABC	1969	Calls are tribute to Philip L. Graham, developer of Miami Lakes
19	Orlando, Florida	'WKMG-TV'	6 (26)	CBS	1997	Calls are tribute to Katherine Graham (was WCPX until 1998)
37	San Antonio, Texas	'KSAT'	12 (48)	ABC	1994
50	Jacksonville, Florida	'WJXT'	4 (42)	Independent	1959	Was CBS until 2002

Post-Newsweek also owned two other television stations in the past, ironically both were at one time or another company flagships.

'Market'	'Station'	'Channel'	'Affiliation'	'Owned by WPO/PNS'	'Current Owner'	'Notes'
Hartford, Connecticut	'WFSB'	3	CBS	1974-97	Meredith	Flagship 1980s-1997 (and headquarters until 2000)
Washington, D.C.	'WTOP-TV'	9	CBS	1948-78	Gannett	First WDVM, now WUSA, flagship/headquarters until 1980s

Cable Television

★ CableOne - Phoenix, Arizona

Education

★ Kaplan, Inc. - Kaplan is a leading global provider of educational services for individuals, schools, and businesses. Headquartered in New York City under the leadership of CEO Jonathan Grayer, Kaplan had nearly $1.7 billion in revenue in 2006 and is The Washington Post Company’s fastest growing division and largest revenue producer.

Internet

★ WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive

★ Slate

★ Classified Ventures, LLC (partial)

References

1. District of Columbia Corporation records show the original Washington Post Company was registered as a domestic corporation in 1889
2. District of Columbia Corporation records show the original DC-based corporation's charter was revoked in 2003 and replaced by a Delaware-based foreign corporation.

See also

★ Lists of corporate assets

External links

★ The Washington Post Company's official homepage