Hearst Shutters CosmoGirl Mag, Though Website Will Live On
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‘Project Runway’ Move To Lifetime Postponed After NBCU Legal Win
Project Runway won’t show up on Lifetime this fall, after all, following an NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) victory in New York State Supreme Court… Read more »
MSN-Hearst’s JV Food Site Delish.com Launched
By Rafat Ali
MSN, which has decided to go the *AOL* way in launching standalone site, has launched its previously announced food site, the rather curious… Read more »
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Hearst Digital Partners With SheKnows: Not Just About Portals Anymore
By David Kaplan
Hearst and female-focused site network SheKnows.com will announce a content syndication deal on Wednesday, marking an evolution in the magaz… Read more »
The Dream Lives On: Plastic Logic’s E-Newspaper Reader; Esquire’s E-Ink Cover
By Rafat Ali
One of the biggest areas of research in the newspaper industry (besides of course the new business models) is the development of an electron… Read more »
Zillow, Newspapers Launch Real Estate Ad Network; Looking To Each Other’s Strengths
Last fall, 11 newspaper publishers agreed to let real estate upstart Zillow.com carry the real estate listings from their 282 papers. Now, t… Read more »
Lifetime Networks Acquires ParentsClick Network For About $10 Million; First Digital Acquisition
Update: We found out the sale price: it is about $10 million, our sources say.
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Earnings: Hearst-Argyle Q2 Digital Revenue Growth Slows; Profits And Total Revs Fall
By David Kaplan
Local broadcaster Hearst-Argyle’s (NYSE: HTV) Q2 digital revenues rose 13 percent $5.7 million from last year’s $5 million. Naturally, that… Read more »
Guardian Execs On ContentNext Acquisition: McCall, Brooks Talk Up Expansion
The acquisition of our parent company, ContentNext Media, is a major change for us, but it also marks a turning point for the UK company to… Read more »
Industry Moves: NBCU; Baseline StudioSystems; Hearst-Argyle; MySpace; Travel Ad Network
– NBCU: Veteran program exec Jamila Hunter has been hired to the new position of SVP-programming and development for NBC Entertainment’s al… Read more »
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Elite Social Networker Spire Gets $9 Million First Round From Hearst, Others
By Joseph Weisenthal
Because the elite can’t be seen networking with the rest of us… Spire.com, a social networking site for folks whose net worth is $250k or… Read more »
Hearst To Serve Up Food Site With MSN This Fall
By David Kaplan
Following through on an internet strategy that has rested heavily on working with MSN for the past two years, Hearst Magazines is working wi… Read more »
Hearst Business Media And IDG Buy Chinese Tech Site EE365
By Rafat Ali
Hearst Business Media, the B2B media arm of Hearst, has jointly bought out a Chinese electronics infomation site EE365.cn, along with its lo… Read more »
Updated: Hearst CEO Victor Ganzi Resigns Over ‘Irreconcilable Differences’; Bennack Is Interim CEO
By Rafat Ali
Hearst, the media company which has made a number of major digital moves in the last few years even as its traditional businesses are bleedi… Read more »
Earnings: Hearst-Argyle Q1 Digital Revenues Rise 22 Percent As Total Revs Drop 2.6 Percent
By David Kaplan
TV station owner Hearst-Argyle (NYSE: HTV) saw revenues decline 2.6 percent in Q1 to $165.1 million as the softening economy held back spend… Read more »
Hearst Expands Text Services To Several Magazine Titles
By James Quintana Pearce
Hearst Magazines is rolling out a number of text-messaging services to its magazine readers after their success in CosmoGIRL, where the serv… Read more »
Hearst Interactive Backing Kindle-Like E-Book Reader Startup FirstPaper
By Rafat Ali
Hearst Interactive, the digital media investment arm of Hearst Corp, is incubating a Kindle-like e-book reader, paidContent.org has learned,… Read more »
Hearst Acquires UK-Based Map Of Medicine From Informa
By Joseph Weisenthal
Another deal in the hot health info space… Hearst has acquired Map of Medicine, a UK-based medical info service targeting doctors, from B2… Read more »
Hearst Buys Relationship Advice Site Answerology
By Rafat Ali
Hearst has bought out online relationships advice site Answerology.com, we have learned, and now confirmed through the company. The site, ba… Read more »
Interview: Chris Johnson, VP, Hearst Digital: Pinning Its Digital Strategy On Portals
By David Kaplan
Like pretty much every large magazine publisher, Hearst has been heavily focused on refining its online strategy for the past year. After a… Read more »
The Quadrant Goes Collective: Newspaper Ad Alliance Picks Sides
By David Kaplan
We hear that NYC-based online ad network Collective Media has won a bid to power quadrantONE, the online newspaper advertising alliance back… Read more »
Earnings: Hearst-Argyle Q4 Revs Down 8 Percent; Digital Up 25 Percent
By Joseph Weisenthal
Hearst-Argyle (NYSE: HTV) has reported Q4 revenue of $216.6 million, down 8 percent year-over-year from $234.4 million. Net income slipped 2… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: NBCU; MySpace-GOOD; Hearst; CNET; Showtime; YouTube Audience
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Industry Moves: National Geographic; Sony; WB; OpenX; Providence; Alpha Media; News Corp; Hearst
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Earnings: MediaNews Revs Down 7.2 Percent On Ad Weakness; Internet Down 8.3 Percent; Kaango Details
By Joseph Weisenthal
Privately-held newspaper publisher MediaNews Group has filed its latest quarterly figures with the SEC, showing revenue of $345.2 million, d… Read more »
NYT-Gannett-Trib-Hearst Combine To Form Local Online Ad Sales Company quadrantONE
By Rafat Ali
This has been in works for a while as an alternative to the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) newspaper consortium, as well as the Google-newspapers ad eff… Read more »
Ad Industry Roundup: Lehman, Borrell Ad Forecasts; TiVo-Carat; Hearst-Argyle-Google; AOL; Alibaba
By David Kaplan
– Lehman Charts Online Ad Slowdown Through ’09: Online ad revenues in United States will grow 25.6 percent, 23.6 percent and 20 percent in… Read more »
MediaNews and Hearst Buy Majority in Classifieds Site Kaango For $20 Million
By Rafat Ali
This was buried in newspaper conglom MediaNews’s 10-Q filed earlier today with SEC: the newspaper group, along with The Hearst Corp., has bo… Read more »
Zillow.com Makes Deal With 11 Newspaper Chains To Carry Real Estate Ads
Real estate site Zillow.com, which specializes in house price comparisons, will carry real estate listings from 11 newspaper publishers incl… Read more »
New Newspaper Ad Net May Compete With Yahoo; Gannett, Hearst, Tribune, MediaNews, Cox In Talks
Five of the largest U.S. newspaper chains are considering a new national ad network that could both overlap and compete with the Yahoo (NSDQ… Read more »
Hearst Buys Stake In MediaNews Group For $317 Million
By David Kaplan
Hearst has paid $317 million for a stake in rival newspaper publisher MediaNews Group, Reuters reported, citing a regulatory filing. The com… Read more »
Hearst Buys Health Info Site RealAge; Possibly Around $100 Million
By Rafat Ali
Hearst is on a mini-acquisition tear: it is buying health and wellness info site RealAge, for what NYT estimates to be around $100 million.… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: ESPN; mtvU/Cisco; CosmoGirl
By David Kaplan
– ESPN Premiere Original Webisodes, Mobisodes: ESPN.com has begun airing a new web series, Countdown Daily, which is updated Mondays throug… Read more »
Google News Starts Test With YouTube Video From BBC, CBS, Others
Starting today, Google News (Nasdaq: GOOG) will incorporate click-and-expand news video from some YouTube content partners as part of a limi… Read more »
Weekend Reading: Hearst Steps Up Interactive Strategy
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Hearst's UK Jellyfish Goes Belly Up
By Ingrid Lunden
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Hearst Buying Shopping Recommendation Site Kaboodle
By Rafat Ali
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Digital Production Studio Worldwide Biggies Receives $9 Million In Funding
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Worldwide Biggies, a digital production studio started two years ago by former Nickelodeon President Albie Hecht, has received $9 million in… Read more »
Earnings: Hearst-Argyle Q2 Digital Media Revs Rise 48 Percent, Offsetting Ad Sales Declines
By David Kaplan
Hearst-Argyle Television (NYSE: HTV) reported that Q2 profits were down 32 percent to $17 million compared to $25 million for the same perio… Read more »
Hearst Buys UGO.com; Possibly As Much As $100M-$150M
By Rafat Ali
We got a tip about this two weeks ago, but could not confirm it out of disbelief: UGO has been around for so long, and has been on the block… Read more »
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