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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
NEW YORK and BALTIMORE, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- WIYY-FM, "98 Rock,"
has received the Station of the Year Award at the Radio & Records Industry
Achievement Awards held late last week in Austin, Texas.
The awards, given at the Radio & Records convention, honor the best in
broadcasting, encompassing the most popular music formats in America. The
convention attracts top broadcast and recording-industry...
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Hearst-Argyle Television Inc. said late Tuesday its board appointed Frank Bennack Jr. chairman, effective immediately. Bennack is vice chairman and chief executive of Hearst Corp., Hearst-Argyle's majority owner. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.
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Lost Remote (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
With the Olympic games just hours away, we’re looking to find the best coverage you see from a local station traveling to Beijing. Post your tips in the comments, and we’ll add them to this list. Hearst-Argyle’s team is producing a blog about the culture and life in China. KARE 11 has a nice section on [...]
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Lost Remote (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
TVNewsday has a great interview with Hearst-Argyle Senior VP of News Fred Young. He talks about anchor salaries (”we won’t be paying outrageous salaries for people to singletask”), the lack of differentiation between local TV newscasts (”you can be different on Monday and by Friday everybody looks like you”) and, of course, the web [...]
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 02/08/2008
As the Q208 earnings season progresses, some quarterly 10-Qs filed by companies, and some nuggets of information in them: -- Gannett : Lists all its digital media acquisitions and investments done in the last year, most of them disclosed previously. One new thing: "The company also increased its investment in 4INFO subsequent to the end of the period, maintaining its approximate ownership interest."...
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Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
As we learned from CBS yesterday , local TV is getting hammered by the ad slowdown. More evidence: Hearst-Argyle TV (HTV), one of the largest independent owners of network-affiliated stations, missed Q2 estimates for revenue and EPS. Total revenue for the quarter was down 5.6% to $182 million compared to $149 million on year ago. EPS came in at 15 cents a share. Analysts had been looking for $190...
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
Local broadcaster Hearst-Argyle's ( NYSE: HTV ) Q2 digital revenues rose 13 percent $5.7 million from last year's $5 million. Naturally, that wasn't enough to balance out the losses elsewhere stemming from the softening economy as total revenue was down 5.6 percent with $182.1 million at the end of the quarter. Also, net income fell 17.6 percent to $14 million ($0.15 per share) from $17 million, while...
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The Local Onliner (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
CityVoter.com, a review and “best of” voting site that powers websites for TV stations and other traditional media outlets, has signed a new deal that will boost its count of Hearst-Argyle TV affiliates from five markets to eight. The old markets include Sacramento, West Palm Beach, Orlando, Milwaukee and Jackson. The new markets include [...]
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
-- NBCU : Veteran program exec Jamila Hunter has been hired to the new position of SVP-programming and development for NBC Entertainment's alternative and digital unit. Hunter will now be responsible for developing alternative programming, including web-based series development and business development for the company's web properties. Most recently, she served as VP-comedy development for 20th Century...
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Lost Remote (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
CityVoter is a local business directory/contesting service that doubles as a local search solution. “We are looking forward to extending our partnership with CityVoter,” said Felix Banuchi, Hearst-Argyle’s director of business development. “We’ve been very happy with the results to date and the potential of local search.
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RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
John McCain is winning--and winning handily. This is from the latest Franklin & Marshall College National Poll of 1,501 registered adults conducted in partnership with Hearst-Argyle. McCain is cleaning up more than 3 to 1 among voters who think the country is headed in the right direction, he's ahead 20 points among voters whose personal finances are better off compared to last year, he's clobbering...
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Lost Remote (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Hearst-Argyle Television has hired former Time Warner Cable executive Roger Keating as senior vice president of digital media.
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Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Hearst-Argyle Television (HTV) named Roger Keating SVP of digital media, replacing Terry Mackin , who left the company earlier this year to run TV stations for Univision. Keating will be responsible for developing digital businesses for Hearst's chain of 26 network-affliliated stations, including broadband, mobile and new digital multicast channels. Hearst is also a partner in NBC WeatherPlus, a partnership...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
NEW YORK, July 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WBAL Radio in Baltimore
earned awards in the Overall Excellence and News Documentary categories;
WBAL-TV, Baltimore, in the News Documentary and News Series categories; and
KCCI-TV, Des Moines, in the Sports Reporting category, in national Edward
R. Murrow Awards results announced today by the Radio-Television News
Directors Association (RTNDA).
WBAL Radio's...
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OTB News (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008
TV station owners including Scripps Howard, Hearst-Argyle and Post Newsweek with strong newscasts in hotly contested states … Share This
