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 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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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 <a title="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…

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…

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…

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…

The battle of Boston continues. Just more than two weeks after Aereo slammed Hearst-owned WCVB-TV for its July 10 copyright suit and injunction request against the Barry Diller-backed streaming video service, the plaintiff has returned fire. In a 12-page reply (read it here) filed Friday in federal court in…