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Hearst Ramps Up Development Slate With Projects From ‘Top Chef’ & ‘Flip Or Flop’ Producers
EXCLUSIVE: Hearst is ramping up its development slate with two new reality series, The Fashion Pack (w/t) from Top Chef and Nailed It producers Magical Elves, and Live Like The Kings, from House Hunters and Flip or Flop producers PieTown Productions.
The Fashion Pack (w/t) is a reality ensemble series that follows…
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Disney Pushes Toward European Cable Exit Ahead Of Fox Deal Close
Disney is aggressively moving forward with plans to satisfy regulators’ requirement that it sell its stake in A+E Networks' factual channels in Europe in order to close its $71B takeover of 21st Century Fox.
The media giant has held talks with Hearst, its joint-venture partner in A+E Networks, about a buyout of…
CBS Taps Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Philip Wiser As CTO
CBS has named Philip Wiser chief technology officer, overseeing the media company’s technology platforms and divisional technology initiatives.
Wiser brings experience as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and technologist who holds 13 patents for his pioneering work in online digital music and video streaming…
Hearst Chief Content Officer Joanna Coles Reported To Exit Publisher
Hearst chief content officer Joanna Coles may be leaving the New York company, according to a published report.
The New York Post is reporting that Coles submitted her resignation and is expected to leave the publishing giant by the end of next week. Apparently a power struggle between her and recently named Hearst…
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Complex Brings Celebrity Spicy-Sauce Hit ‘Hot Ones’ To Snapchat
EXCLUSIVE: Hearst-Verizon co-venture Complex Networks is bringing Hot Ones, one of its most popular series, to Snapchat starting today.
The show, which features celebrities sitting for interviews with host Sean Evans while both eat chicken wings coated with sauces of a steadily increasing spice level, will have a…
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HBO’s Richard Plepler On OTT Strategy: “We Were More Right Than We Imagined”
Speaking in an Advertising Week session with Snap Inc. chief strategy officer Imran Khan and Hearst chief content officer Joanna Coles, HBO CEO Richard Plepler framed the network’s stand-alone OTT strategy as an unalloyed success.
“We put the lie to the idea that the pie couldn't get bigger,” Plepler said. “People…
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By Dade Hayes
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Verizon & Hearst Buy Complex; Digital Pop Culture Hub Targets Millennials
Verizon and Hearst’s content alliance just became a little cozier. The companies unveiled today an agreement to buy Complex, a digital company that targets Millennial males. It will develop video for the telco’s Go90 mobile service and AOL.
The companies didn’t announce financial terms for the acquisition, which is…
Hearst Buys 25% Of DreamWorks Animation’s AwesomenessTV In Diversification Deal
DreamWorks Animation has sold a quarter of big YouTube multi-channel network AwesomenessTV, which it acquired last year for $33 million, to Hearst Corp. for $81.25 million.
The deal ratifies talks that Deadline had previously reported, and dramatically increases the value of DWA’s investment in the online site it…
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DreamWorks Animation & Hasbro In Merger Talks; Deal With Hearst Looming
EXCLUSIVE: DreamWorks Animation is deeply engaged in two potentially game changing negotiations that could transform the company — including one with Hasbro to forge a family entertainment powerhouse to be called DreamWorks-Hasbro. The other talks are with Hearst to turn DWA’s AwesomenessTV into a joint venture. We’re…
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ABC Boston Affiliate Launches Aereo Appeal
Just over two months to the day that Hearst-owned WCVB-TV was denied its preliminary injunction motion against the Barry Diller-backed streaming service, the Boston ABC affiliate has began its predictable appeal. "Simply put, this case affects the very future of over-the-air broadcasting as we know it," says the…
Aereo Beats ABC Boston Affiliate Injunction Demand
With just days to go before broadcasters are likely to take Aereo to the Supreme Court, a federal judge has denied Hearst-owned Boston-station WCVB-TV a preliminary injunction motion against the Barry Diller-backed streaming service. “The Court finds that Hearst has made a minimal showing of irreparable harm that is…
ABC Boston Affiliate Hopes Local Aereo Case Repeats FilmOn Injunction
We knew that they were going to be joined at the legal hip soon enough, but that was really fast. One day after a federal court in D.C gave broadcasters an almost nationwide injunction against streaming service FilmOn X, the Hearst-owned Boston station WCVB-TV made damn sure that the judge in its suit against the Barry…
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