The Star-Telegram (previously 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. Fort Worth is the sixth-largest city in the state of Texas, located about 30 miles west of Dallas on the West Fork Trinity River and forming part of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. ... Downtown Dallas. ... The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (also DFW Metroplex, or simply the Metroplex) encompasses the combined metropolitan area of the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. ... The Dallas Morning News is the major daily newspaper serving the Dallas, Texas area. ... The Knight Ridder building in downtown San José. Knight Ridder (IPA: ) (NYSE: KRI) is an American media company, specializing in newspaper and Internet publishing. ...

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. Amon G. Carter, Sr. ...

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.

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. KXAS-TV (NBC 5) is a flagship NBC owned and operated station based in Fort Worth. ...

References

• Flemmons, Jerry. Amon: The Texan Who Played Cowboy for America. Lubbock, TX : Texas Tech, 1998.

External link

• The Star-Telegram