Hearst Media Production Group has announced a licensing agreement for Season 1 and Season 2 episodes of the Emmy nominated series Harlem Globetrotters: Play It Forward with Australia’s National Indigenous Television (NITV). The deal provides access to the programme for all Australians through broadcast on NITV, the Australian streaming destination, SBS On Demand. HMPG produces […]
This October, TF1 group will add two new players onto its TF1+ platform: ARTE, renowned across European for the production and broadcasting of arts programmes; and Hearst – formerly A&E Television Network – a US broadcaster known for its documentaries. Having already added content from L’Equipe, Le Figaro and Deezer, TF1+ is further enhancing its […]
A+E Networks EMEA announced has rebranded. The international broadcaster, which operates across the UK, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, is fully owned by Hearst and will now operate under the new name of Hearst Networks EMEA. Hearst Networks EMEA will continue to be comprised of four companies: Hearst Networks UK, a long-standing joint venture with […]
Captify, a provider of real-time audiences and insights fuelled by Search Intelligence, has announced the appointment of Jane Wolfson to the position of President, International. In this newly created role, Wolfson will oversee Captify’s commercial business outside of North America, including responsibility for the commercial teams in the UK and Australia. Wolfson, who will be […]
Hearst Media Production Group (HMPG), a producer and distributor of unscripted programming, has announced an expansion of its partnership with Samsung TV Plus, Samsung’s FAST and AVoD service. Samsung TV Plus, which currently distributes the HMPG FAST channels Xplore, Rovr Pets and The Jack Hanna Channel, will license more than 500 hours of HMPG original […]
Hearst Media Production Group (HMPG), a producer and distributor of educational and informational content, has acquired the library of TV series hosted by legendary wildlife ambassador Jack Hanna from Into The Wild. HMPG has been the long-time distributor of the Hanna franchise. In addition to its current ownership of Jack Hanna’s Animal Adventures, HMPG has […]
Hearst Media Production Group (HMPG) and actress, comedian and author Tiffany Haddish have entered into a development deal to produce two unscripted series. The collaboration with Haddish, who will serve as Executive Producer on the projects, is part of HMPG’s growing slate of development initiatives within its entertainment unit. The first original series is […]
Erin Finnegan and Ken Baldwin have joined Hearst Media Production Group (HMPG) as creative services director and research director, respectively. Both are new positions and are located at the company’s East Coast headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina. Finnegan moved to HMPG from WDSU-TV, the New Orleans NBC affiliate owned by HMPG parent Hearst Television, where […]
Gail Austin has joined Hearst Media Production Group (HMPG) as senior producer on the HMPG weekly show Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien. She reports to Rita Aleman, the show’s executive producer. Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien is America’s #1 nationally syndicated public affairs news magazine, averaging more than 1.1 million weekly viewers season-to-date […]
Laura Ling, an award-winning journalist and veteran of local and network television news and documentary production, who since 2021 has served as Hearst Television’s director of programming for its streaming video services group, has been promoted to vice president of Very Local, a division of Hearst Television, overseeing programming for the rapidly growing streaming unit. […]