Hearst Television

The station group will use Rhiza’s web-based, buyer-level data to accelerate local ad sales.

The veteran TV Journalism’s is stepping down after 35 Years at Hearst Television. Altman became Hearst Television’s VP of news in 2001, working with the news departments of the company’s stations around the country and coordinating their political coverage.

The sale, announced in October 2017, gives Hearst a duopoly in the market. It also owns NBC affiliate WXII and has been operating WCWG under a shared services agreement.

For the 2018 elections, the station group increases its coverage with more than 50 multiplatform special events, more resources for investigative reporting and fact checking among other steps.

Emerson Coleman, Hearst’s SVP of programming, is going to Miami with a surging Matter of Fact to offer. When he puts on his buyer hat, he will be looking for a few shows, including replacements for the slots now occupied by Harry, whose return seems doubtful. In this wide-ranging interview, he also talks about the stagnant first-run syndication business, station groups’ producing their own programming, Hearst’s kids programming subsidiary Litton, multicasting and his continued enthusiasm for NATPE.

Also, Tolleah Price joins the Hearst weekly syndicated political magazine as its first supervising producer.

The broadcast group promotes him to SVP of programming. “Emerson has been instrumental in the growth and stewardship of Hearst Television’s best-in-class programming assets,” said Hearst Television President Jordan Wertlieb

A new deal includes site audits, turnkey solutions and installation services for broadband transmitters at  to 13 stations affected by the TV spectrum repack.

Media asset management systems are becoming more extensible, better integrated with newsroom technologies, and increasingly cloud-based, making it less important where the asset resides. Above: Earlier this year, Bitcentral announced that WFXG Augusta, Ga. was able to grow its news operations with the help of Bitcentral Oasis asset management and archive system, along with Precis for playout, a Ross OverDrive production control system and Grass Valley Edius nonlinear editing software.

The former deputy editor, mobile at Bloomberg will lead the TV station group’s digital teams to produce and distribute content on multiple digital platforms.

It’s exercising an option to purchase Lockwood Broadcast Group’s CW affiliate that Hearst operates under a shared services agreement.

He will oversee sales operations of the company’s television and radio stations and various web platforms.

Hearst Television’s weekly political magazine hosted by Soledad O’Brien will kick off again later this month with 85% U.S. coverage via 126 stations.

Service is restored in five markets Wednesday after the stations went dark on the cable systems late Tuesday night.

The two fail to reach a new retransmission consent agreement following a five-day extension of negotiations to Sept. 5.

It moves him from engineering director at its WCVB Boston to Eastern region director of engineering for the group.

2016 Spot Revenue: $853.4 million Stations: 34 in 27 markets Coverage: 18.7% Ownership: Hearst Corp. (private) Key Executives: Steven Swartz, president-CEO, Hearst Corp.; Jordan Wertlieb, president, Hearst Television; Frank Biancuzzo, EVP; Michael J. […]

Hearst Television and Dish Network on Wednesday announced a multi-year agreement for carriage of the broadcaster’s stations in 26 markets across 30 states. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. The Hearst stations had been unavailable to Dish subscribers since March 3. “We are grateful to once again have Hearst Television stations providing Dish customers the quality local and national programming which we invest so heavily to offer our local communities,” said Hearst Television President Jordan Wertlieb.  “We are thankful to Dish subscribers and to our supportive advertisers for their extraordinary patience during this prolonged process.”

Dish has been missing Hearst-owned network affiliates in 26 markets now for 52 days and the satcaster’s subscribers are taking to social media sites to vent their growing impatience and anger.

The weekly political magazine show from Hearst hosted by Soledad O’Brien adds affiliates in New York, San Francisco and Hartford, Conn., boosting its performance in key demos. In the fall it expands into Nashville.

Content management systems are being enlisted to tackle newsroom workflow problems and the proliferation of fake news in a fast-evolving industry. In a new special report, Angela Misri looks at how CMS-level content verification has come into play, along with the increasing demand to produce platform-neutral content and why some media companies, including Al Jazeera and Hearst Television, have chosen to build their own CMSs.

Yes, it’s day 26 of the fee fight between the two mega-huge companies that have left Dish viewers without broadcast affiliates in 26 Hearst markets. And there’s no end in sight for the dispute that gets a little nastier with each passing day.

In a newly created position, former Twitter exec Andrew Fitzgerald will work with the digital teams at the Hearst Television stations to produce and distribute content on multiple digital platforms.

After the satellite service points the finger at Hearst, the broadcaster begins taking out ads and including information on its stations’ websites blaming Dish for not being able to resolve the now two-week old retrans standoff.

Hearst Television President Jordan Wertlieb has written an open letter to Dish Network in which he denies Dish’s allegation that Hearst is unwilling to negotiate an end to their now 11-day-old fee fight.

Dish Network and Hearst Television have ratcheted up their efforts to persuade viewers that the other side is to blame for the contract impasse that left subscribers unable to watch the broadcasters’ affiliates in 26 markets including Baltimore, Boston, Kansas City, and Pittsburgh.

The five-day-old blackout on Dish Network of 33 Hearst TV network affiliates in 26 markets might not be ending soon. Hearst released a statement to its viewers Tuesday, indicating the two sides aren’t even at the bargaining table for a new broadcast retransmission licensing deal.

Hearst Television and Dish Network have agreed to a 48-hour extension in hopes of concluding a renewal of their retransmission consent agreement for carriage of Hearst’s stations on the satellite TV service. The old contract expired this morning.

The broadcaster, which owns 33 stations in 26 media markets across 39 states, began telling Dish customers over the weekend that it might remove its signals from the satellite service “if negotiations between representatives of Hearst Television and Dish Network are unsuccessful in reaching a conclusion before March 1.

DirecTV and Hearst Television are negotiating a renewal of the retransmission consent agreement for the carriage of Hearst broadcast stations on DirecTV’s systems. The current deal expires on Jan. 1.

Sources say the show that was being shopped by Warner Bros. ran up against a shortage of eligible time slots on stations in major markets next fall. It could be revived later, they add.

Barbara Maushard is promoted to news SVP overseeing an expanded news team; Andrew Vrees named news VP Lori Waldon is now regional director of news.

The former GM of KRON San Francisco will oversee sales at the station group’s 30 TV and two radio stations.

The Hearst Television executive returns to Ohio to succeed Richard Dyer as head of the company’s Cincinnati’s NBC affiliate.

The station group promotes Roger Keating from SVP, digital media, to chief strategy and business development officer.

The station group promotes the former Comcast sales executive from SVP of finance.