Allbritton Communications Company

Type: Private
Employees: 1,046
Employee growth: 7.6%

This company has a real affinity for the Alphabet Network. Allbritton Communications is a leading television broadcaster with about 10 TV stations, all affiliated with Walt Disney's ABC television network. The stations serve markets in Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia, as well as Washington, DC. The company also owns and operates a 24-hour cable news channel (NewsChannel 8) that serves the nation's capitol, and it operates Politico.com, a Web site and companion newspaper offering political news and opinion. Joe Allbritton started the family-owned business in 1975.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending September, 2007:
Sales: $226.1M
One year growth: 1.2%
Net income: $22.6M

Officers:
Chairman and CEO: Robert L. Allbritton
Vice Chairman, President, and COO: Frederick J. (Fred) Ryan Jr.
SVP and CFO: Stephen P. Gibson

Competitors:
Gannett
Media General
Tribune Company

Logo of Allbritton Communications

The Allbritton Communications Company is a Washington, D.C.-area owner of television stations-all affiliated with ABC after signing an affiliation agreement in 1997.

Contents 1 Stations 1.1 Currently owned 1.2 Formerly owned 2 Newspapers 3 Footnotes 4 External links

Stations

Currently owned

	Market	Calls	Channel	Branding	Link	Notes
9	Washington, DC	WJLA	7	"ABC7 News"	[1]	Flagship station of Allbritton; RTN on DT3
9	Washington, DC	News Channel 8	8	"NewsChannel 8"	[2]	A 24-hour local cable news station
39	Harrisburg, Pennsylvania	WHTM	27	"ABC27 News"	[3]	RTN on DT2
40	Birmingham/Anniston/Tuscaloosa, Alabama	WBMA/WJSU/WCFT	58, 33 and 40	"ABC33/40 News"	[4]	Originally separate stations, WJSU and WCFT were former CBS affiliates before the agreement. WBMA-LP was launced in 1996 to complement ABC coverage only after WBRC switched to Fox.
56	Little Rock, Arkansas	KATV	7	"Channel 7 News"	[5]
61	Tulsa, Oklahoma	KTUL	8	"NewsChannel 8"	[6]
67	Lynchburg, Virginia/Roanoke, Virginia	WSET	13	"ABC13 News"	[7]	RTN on DT2
97	Charleston, South Carolina	WCIV	4	"ABC News 4"	[8]	Originally an NBC affiliate before agreement; swapped with WCBD

Formerly owned

Market	Calls	Channel	Current Owner	Notes
Jacksonville, Florida	WJXX	25	Gannett	was Independent until 1997, sold in 1999
Brunswick, Georgia	WPXC-TV	21	ION Media Networks	became ABC in 1996, sold in 2001

Newspapers

Allbritton launched The Politico, a political news website and newspaper on January 23, 2007, the day of the 2007 State of the Union Address.

In October, 2009, Allbritton announced that it planned to launch an online-only news site for the Washington, D.C., area in spring, 2010. The site "will build on a merger of the Web pages now fielded by the company's television stations, WJLA-TV (Channel 7) and its cable sibling, NewsChannel 8," according to the Washington Post. Jim Brady, a former Post editor, will run the site, which does not yet have a name.^[1]

Albritton owned the Washington Evening Star (1975–1978).

Footnotes

1. ^ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/28/AR2009102804473.html

External links

• The Politico

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