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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.
The official name of the broadcast division, dating back to the 1970s, is
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").
Post-Newsweek also owned two other television stations in the past, ironically both were at one time or another company flagships.
