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Home of The Dallas Morning News.
The Dallas Morning News
And Associated EnterprisesOn April 11, 1955, the institution which
publishes The Dallas Morning News was
113 years old, the oldest business insti-
tution in Texas. This institution was es-
tablished with the beginning of The Gal-
veston News, April 11, 1842. On Oct. 1,
1955, The Dallas Morning News closed
its seventieth year since its establish-
ment as a branch of The Galveston News
at Dallas. However, it was 106 years old
in Dallas as measured by the establish-
ment of The Dallas Herald which was
purchased by and consolidated with The
Dallas Morning News soon after the lat-
ter's establishment in Dallas.
The Texas Almanac, established by The
Galveston News in 1857, celebrates its
hundredth anniversary with its biennial
1956-1957 edition.
The Dallas Morning News was among
the first to enter the radiobroadcasting
field, and its Radio Station WFAA
reached its thirty-seventh year in 1955.
In the much newer field of television,
its Station WFAA-TV was seven years old.
Thus The Dallas Morning News group
of associated enterprises ranges in age
from seven to 113 years.
This institution has grown old and
great because its publishers have always
been alert to keep it young by reaching
for the new idea, the new technique, the
new field of opportunity. For example:The first telephone line in Texas was
installed between the offices of The Gal-
veston News and the home of its publish-
er, Col. A. H. Belo, in 1878. Among the
pioneer papers of the older parts of
Texas, The Galveston News was the only
one to see the opportunity in the great,
developing interior of Texas and start a
companion newspaper there. When The
Dallas Morning News was started by
The Galveston News, the two newspapers
attracted international attention by their
simultaneous publication 300 miles apart
through telegraphic communication that
was advanced for its day. The Dallas
News was the first Texas newspaper to
operate its own trains especially for the
delivery of its paper to subscribers out-
side the city of publication. The institu-
tion which publishes The Dallas News
was the only one in Texas, and one of the
few in the country, to assume the respon-
sibility for publishing a book of informa-
tion solely with the idea that the dis-
semination of this information would aid
in the economic, civic and cultural
growth of the area it served.
The Dallas Morning News was among
the first newspapers in the country to
establish a radio station. And, when
Radio Station WFAA was raised to 50,000
watts in 1930, it was the first superpower
station in the South and the only super-B
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