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Frank Bennack, the executive vice chairman and former CEO of Hearst Corp., is channeling his decades of experience into a memoir to be published this fall by Simon & Schuster. The CBS-owned publishing house has acquired world rights and audio rights to Leave Something on the Table: And Other Surprising Lessons for Succ…

Shelley Zimmerman has joined AwesomenessTV in the newly created role of Head of Scripted Series, the company has announced. She’ll head up development and production of original scripted series for AwesomenessTV’s television network and SVOD service partners. The company also announced that Shauna Phelan will continue…

NEW YORK, March 27, 2013 – Hearst Corporation today announced that Steven R. Swartz, president and chief operating officer of Hearst Corporation, will succeed Frank A. Bennack, Jr., as chief executive officer of the Corporation, effective June 1, 2013. Bennack will continue to serve as executive vice chairman of the…

Top Hearst Corp. entertainment executive Scott Sassa has exited the company, Deadline has confirmed. The news is not entirely surprising as Sassa has been known for his living-on-the-edge lifestyle that clashed with the rather conservative top Hearst brass. Still, the circumstances of his departure are bizarre. There…

NEW YORK, January 22, 2013 – Hearst Corporation announced today that William R. Hearst III — a director of the Corporation and trustee of the Hearst Family Trust established under the terms of the will of William Randolph Hearst — has been elected chairman of the Corporation. Three executives and two members of the…

NBCUniversal may bring in a partner in the upcoming revamp of struggling cable channel G4. I hear that NBCU is in talks with Hearst about partnering on the channel. What’s more, I hear the two sides are exploring a rebranding of the channel tied to the Heast-owned men’s magazine Esquire, possibly as Esquire Channel…

Hearst Corp. has acquired 50% of NorthSouth Prods., an independent producer of cable non-scripted programming, to form a joint venture. It will be part of Hearst Entertainment & Syndication, run by Scott Sassa, which includes ownership in cable networks A&E, History and ESPN; and a similar joint venture with Mark…