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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, cable-television companies, and Kaplan, a company that provides educational and testing material.

The Washington Post Company history dates back to 1877, when the Post was first published, although the company was only incorporated in 1947, 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.

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
• Washington Technology

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
17	Miami, Florida	WPLG	10 (9)	ABC	1969
20	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
51	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.

Internet

• Post Newsweek Tech Media
• WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive
• Slate

See also

• Lists of corporate assets

External links

• [The Washington Post Company's official homepage]

 

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