| 1928年 |
Hearst enters broadcasting with acquisition of WSOE radio, Milwaukee. The station later becomes the foundation of WISN-TV. |
| 1931年 |
Hearst acquires WTAE radio, Pittsburgh. |
| 1935年 |
Hearst acquires WBAL radio, Baltimore. |
| 1948年 |
WLWT-TV, Cincinnati (at the time owned by Crosley Broadcasting), WBAL-TV, Baltimore, and WDSU-TV, New Orleans, are launched in February, March and December, respectively, and are among the nation's first handful of television stations. (WLWT becomes an Argyle station in 1996 and a Hearst station the following year. WDSU becomes a Hearst Broadcasting station with the 1999 acquisition of Pulitzer Broadcasting.) |
| 1949年 |
WGAL-TV is launched in the Lancaster-Harrisburg, Pa., TV market. The station later joins the Hearst Broadcasting family as part of Hearst's 1999 acquisition of Pulitzer Broadcasting. |
| 1953年 |
WBAL-TV is among the nation's first TV stations to transmit in color. WBAL also introduced the legendary "Romper Room" in the early 1950s. |
| 1953年 |
KMBC-TV is launched in Kansas City, Missouri. The station is acquired by Hearst Broadcasting in 1981. |
| 1953年 |
WYFF-TV in Greenville, South Carolina, WXII-TV in Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and KOAT-TV in Albuquerque, New Mexico, are launched. The stations later join the Hearst Broadcasting family as part of Hearst's 1999 acquisition of Pulitzer Broadcasting. |
| 1953年 |
KSBW-TV is launched to serve the Monterey/Salinas, California, TV market. The station is acquired by Hearst Broadcasting in 1998. |
| 1954年 |
WISN-TV is launched in Milwaukee. |
| 1954年 |
KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City, and KITV in Honolulu, later to become Argyle Television stations, are launched. |
| 1954年 |
WPTZ-TV is launched to serve the Burlington, Vermont/Plattsburgh, New York TV market. The station is acquired by Hearst Broadcasting in 1998. |
| 1955年 |
KCRA-TV is launched in Sacramento, California. The station is acquired by Hearst Broadcasting in 1999. |
| 1955年 |
KCCI-TV is launched in Des Moines, Iowa. The station later joins the Hearst Broadcasting family as part of Hearst's 1999 acquisition of Pulitzer Broadcasting. |
| 1956年 |
WESH-TV is launched near Orlando, Florida. The station joins the Hearst Broadcasting family as part of Hearst's 1999 acquisition of Pulitzer Broadcasting. |
| 1958年 |
WTAE-TV is launched in Pittsburgh. |
| 1972年 |
License for WCVB-TV, Boston, is awarded to Boston Broadcasting Corp. |
| 1981年 |
Hearst Broadcasting acquires WDTN-TV, Dayton, Ohio (where Phil Donahue first tested his innovative talk format in the 1960s); Hearst Broadcasting agrees to acquire KMBC-TV, Kansas City, Missouri. |
| 1986年 |
Hearst Broadcasting acquires WCVB-TV for $450 million, at the time the highest price paid for a TV station. |
| 1994年 |
Argyle Television is founded; acquires WNAC-TV in Providence, Rhode Island, WZZM-TV in Grand Rapids, Michigan. and WAPT-TV in Jackson, Mississippi. |
| 1995年 |
Argyle acquires WGRZ-TV in Buffalo, New York and KITV-TV in Honolulu (including satellite stations KMAU in Wailuku and KHVO in Hilo). |
| 1995年 |
Argyle goes public on Nasdaq. |
| 1997年 |
Hearst Broadcasting acquires WPBF-TV in West Palm Beach, Florida. |
| 1997年 |
Hearst Broadcasting and Argyle Television combine to form Hearst-Argyle Television, a publicly traded company. |
| 1997年 |
Hearst-Argyle's bank credit facility and its senior notes receive investment grade ratings from Moody's and Standard & Poor's. |
| 1997年 |
WISN-TV, Milwaukee, is the first station in its market to build a website around its weather brand, offering around-the-clock snow-closing information. |
| 1997年 |
KITV, Honolulu, becomes America's first commercially licensed TV station to go digital, enabling it to provide digital high-definition television (HDTV). KITV is subsequently named "Broadcaster of the Year" by Television Broadcast magazine. |
| 1998年 |
Hearst-Argyle transfers from the Nasdaq to the New York Stock Exchange; company directors and officers ring the opening bell on July 22, 1998. |
| 1998年 |
WCVB-TV's coverage of the Boston Pops July 4 concert, for which 300,000 revelers jam Boston's Esplanade, earns market-leading ratings and is simulcast on the A&E Network, in which the Hearst is a partner. |
| 1999年 |
WCVB-TV pioneers local high-definition (HD) TV production with an HD episode of its acclaimed public-affairs program "Chronicle." The event marks the first local HD production in New England, and among the first nationwide. |
| 1999年 |
Hearst-Argyle acquires the broadcast group of Pulitzer Publishing Co., including nine TV stations and five radio stations. Hearst-Argyle also acquires the Sacramento, California, television properties of Kelly Broadcasting Co., Including KCRA-TV, the NBC affiliate, and a time brokerage agreement (also known as a local marketing agreement) for KQCA-TV, the market's WB affiliate. The transactions bring Hearst-Argyle to 26 TV stations reaching about 17.5 percent of U.S. TV households, as well as seven radio stations. |
| 1999年 |
Hearst-Argyle Swaps WDTN-TV, Dayton, Ohio and WNAC-TV, Providence, Rhode Island for KSBW-TV, Monterey-Salinas, California and WPTZ-TV/WNNE-TV, Burlington, Vermont/Plattsburgh, New York. |
| 1999年 |
WCVB-TV, Boston, devotes more than 36 hours of live coverage of the tragic John F. Kennedy, Jr., plane crash. |
| 1999年 |
Following a WPBF-TV (West Palm Beach, Florida) news probe, revealing that area schools are unprepared for tornado threats, Palm Beach County schools change policies to strictly enforce tornado drills. This and similar efforts earn the station a rare honor by the National Weather Association. |
| 1999年 |
KOCO-TV, Oklahoma City, broadcasts 27 hours of non-stop coverage of the area's devastating May tornadoes and later coordinates a drive filling 12 semi-trailers with food and clothing for victims. Using the station's prominent weather-forecasting brand, KOCO also launches the innovative WeatherWarn service, which notifies mobile customers of looming weather events via pager alerts. |
| 2000年 |
Hearst-Argyle acquires KQCA-TV, Sacramento's WB affiliate (previously managed by the Company under an LMA), creating a successful duopoly with its Sacramento NBC affiliate, KCRA-TV. |
| 2000年 |
Hearst-Argyle becomes one of the first major station groups to announce a policy of not airing advertising for "R"-rated movies during the family viewing hour in primetime. |
| 2000年 |
Hearst-Argyle partners with Belo Corp. and LIN Television to launch a Broadcast Sales Academy to train the industry's next generation of sales professionals. |
| 2001年 |
Hearst-Argyle acquires WMUR-TV (Manchester), New Hampshire's TV news leader, from Imes Communications, adding Hearst-Argyle's 27th TV station. |
| 2001年 |
Hearst-Argyle and its stations lead the industry with numerous broadcast journalism awards, including a Walter Cronkite Award, from the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication, for the Company's "Commitment 2000" project. |
| 2001年 |
A WTAE-TV, Pittsburgh investigation sparks a national crackdown on a financial "pyramid" scheme, earning a Golden Quill Award and a regional Emmy nomination. |
| 2001年 |
An eight-month investigation by WESH-TV, Orlando, Florida, into area day-care providers prompts legislation to change systems for managing complaints and informing parents. |
| 2001年 |
KOCO-TV, Oklahoma City, secures the only local correspondence, a written "Q&A," with Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. |
| 2001年 |
The Hearst-Argyle Washington, D.C., news bureau secures the first post-election sit-down interview, of any independent TV station group, with Vice President Cheney. |
| 2001年 |
Hearst-Argyle partners with Loral to create HATSat, a dedicated satellite service allowing the Washington news bureau and all Hearst-Argyle stations to share stories. |
| 2001年 |
WCVB-TV, Boston, breaks the first, exclusive, pictures and reports of the 9/11 terrorists' rental car found at Boston's Logan Airport. The WTAE-TV, Pittsburgh, coverage of the crash of 9/11 Flight 93 in Pennsylvania eventually earns Emmy and National Headliner Awards. Other East Coast Hearst-Argyle stations secure leading news coverage of various aspects of the 9/11 story pertaining to their regions. Hearst-Argyle stations collectively help raise more than $22 million for 9/11 relief efforts, through telethons and other projects. |
| 2003年 |
News crews from various Hearst-Argyle stations head to sections of the Middle East to cover the Iraq War |
| 2003年 |
A WBAL-TV in Baltimore investigation into the mortgage-servicing business inspires similar investigations by other Hearst-Argyle stations, an effort which collectively sparks action by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and legislation sponsored by Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) leading to changes in industry practices. WBAL-TV later receives an award for its reporting from the National Association of Consumer Advocates. |
| 2003年 |
A WISN-TV, Milwaukee probe of the effectiveness of home smoke alarms spurs improvements in detection standards and earns a coveted Peabody Award. A second Peabody was awarded in 2003 to WESH-TV for its joint investigation with the Orlando Sentinel into Central Florida home building, entitled 'Building Homes: Building Problems,' spurs statewide industry scrutiny and goes on to earn a Peabody Award. |
| 2003年 |
WESH-TV, Orlando, Florida, provides around-the-clock coverage of the tragic loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia, including reports on-site from Cape Canaveral. The station's reporting goes on to earn a prestigious du Pont-Columbia Journalism Award. |
| 2003年 |
East Coast Hearst-Argyle stations provide market-leading, around-the-clock coverage of the impact of Hurricane Isabel in their areas, sharing their reports with Hearst-Argyle stations around the country via HATSat. |
| 2003年 |
The Hearst-Argyle Television Washington, D.C., news bureau secures an interview with President Bush and supplies the 'pool' camera crew for other broadcast groups to conduct their own presidential interviews later that day. The Hearst-Argyle interview goes on to make national news, with coverage in most major national newspapers and broadcast news networks. |
| 2003年 |
WLWT-TV, Cincinnati secures an exclusive interview with controversial former Cincinnati Reds legend Pete Rose. |
| 2004年 |
Hearst-Argyle acquires WMTW-TV, an ABC affiliate serving the Portland-Auburn, Maine, television market, bringing the total number of TV stations owned and/or managed by the Company to 28. |
| 2004年 |
Hearst-Argyle President & CEO David J. Barrett is named "Broadcaster of the Year" by Broadcasting & Cable magazine. |
| 2004年 |
Hearst-Argyle television stations complete the transition to digital television (DTV) broadcasting. |
| 2004年 |
WCVB-TV, Boston, becomes the region's first station to announce Spanish-language closed captioning of local newscasts; its nightly "Chronicle" program and local specials will also feature the captioning. |
| 2004年 |
A number of Hearst-Argyle stations, in conjunction with local cable system operators, become the first stations in their markets to make local programming available to viewers via video-on-demand (VOD). |
| 2004年 |
WYFF-TV, Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina, produces a U.S. Senate debate simulcast nationally on C-SPAN and co-produces a Democratic primary debate simulcast on MSNBC. |
| 2004年 |
NBCOlympics.com, developed by NBC in conjunction with its affiliates, achieves record traffic for an Olympics website, attracting 230 million page views from 12 million unique visitors, all within a 16-day period surrounding the Athens games. |
| 2004年 |
KCCI-TV, Des Moines, a leader in coverage of the quadrennial Iowa presidential caucuses, earns its first-ever national Edward R. Murrow Award, from the Radio-Television News Directors Association. |
| 2004年 |
WBAL-TV's examination of pollution in Chesapeake Bay spurs environmental action and goes on to win a Peabody Award, the third in a row for a Hearst-Argyle station. |
| 2005年 |
Weather Plus, developed jointly by Hearst-Argyle and NBC along with other NBC affiliate groups, marks the first series of local weather channels using the latest forecasting technology used by local broadcasters, and also marks one of the first uses of digital television broadcast spectrum for new services. |
| 2005年 |
KETV, Channel 7 in Omaha, Neb. launches "7 to Go" wireless service to cell phones, offering news, weather and sports updates, movie information, stock quotes and other services to mobile information-seekers. |
| 2005年 |
WBAL-TV serves as media sponsor of the grand opening of Baltimore's Reginald Lewis Museum of African American History. |
| 2005年 |
New Mexico First Lady Barbara Richardson holds a news conference announcing that New Mexico has moved from No. 49 in the nation to No. 15 in children’s immunizations. During the conference, she thanks KOAT-TV for its efforts in helping increase immunizations through its "Shots for Tots" campaign. |
| 2005年 |
WDSU-TV, New Orleans, faces Hurricane Katrina, providing vital news coverage to the community and assisting in rescue efforts. Eventually losing its broadcast transmission capability due to flooding, WDSU, working in tandem with other Hearst-Argyle stations, forms an ad hoc "network" for its news reporting, comprising its website and TV stations and cable systems in other cities, to reach evacuees to other locations. Hearst-Argyle establishes an Employee Disaster Relief Foundation and its stations also help raise more than $11 million, through efforts including telethons, for agencies providing relief. |
| 2006年 |
Hearst-Argyle CEO David Barrett delivers keynote address at the annual convention of the U.S. Telecom Association, calling for a partnership between the telecommunications and television broadcast industries to achieve a regulatory framework to speed introduction of emerging digital TV services. |
| 2006年 |
Hearst-Argyle forms alliance with North Carolina A&T University to train journalism students, one of a number of internship/training program partnerships developed by the company. |
| 2006年 |
Hearst-Argyle, as part of its "Commitment 2006" project, raises the bar on local-TV coverage of the electoral process with a pledge of a minimum 10 minutes of airtime daily political coverage leading up to primaries and elections. |
| 2006年 |
WDSU-TV and MSNBC co-present a first-of-its-kind nationally televised debate among New Orleans mayoral candidates. |
| 2006年 |
Hearst-Argyle signs a carriage agreement with Verizon for its stations in Boston, Baltimore and Tampa, marking the inaugural carriage of Hearst-Argyle programming on the emerging fiber-optic television program-distribution platform. |
| 2006年 |
Hearst-Argyle acquires WKCF-TV, the CW Network affiliate in Orlando. The addition of WKCF, Hearst-Argyle's 29th TV station, forms a duopoly with Hearst-Argyle's WESH-TV, the NBC affiliate serving Orlando, Florida, the nation's 19th largest television market. |
| 2006年 |
Two Hearst-Argyle stations earn television's highest public-service honors. WPBF-TV, West Palm Beach, Florida, receives the National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation (NABEF) Service to America Award, at a Washington, DC, ceremony featuring former President Clinton. Separately, WCVB-TV, Boston, earns its latest of many Gabriel Awards, further cementing its position as arguably America's most-honored commercial television station. |
| 2006-08-28 |
Hearst-Argyle and WDSU-TV commemorate the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with two television specials, "Song for New Orleans," celebrating the city's musical rebirth, and "Seven Days That Changed New Orleans," documenting the drama of Katrina as seen through the eyes of WDSU's news team. Both specials are carried on all the Hearst-Argyle stations, and "Song" airs on August 29, the anniversary of Katrina's landfall, on the TV One cable network. DVDs of the programs are available at www.songforneworleans.com, with a significant portion of proceeds going to rebuilding efforts. |
| 2006年10月 |
WIYY-FM, Baltimore, in October becomes America's 1,000th digital high definition (HD) radio station. |
| 2006年10月 |
WCVB-TV in October launches "Chronicle" nightly in HD, making it one of the nation's very first local public-affairs programs or newsmagazine shows to do so. WCVB aired its first HD "Chronicle" special in March 1999, broadcasting 40 HD episodes in the ensuing seven years. |
| 2007年 |
Hearst-Argyle reaches retransmission-consent agreement with AT&T, making it one of the first TV groups to do so, for carriage of selected TV stations over AT&T's U-verse fiber TV service. |
| 2007年 |
Hearst-Argyle earns its fourth consecutive Walter Cronkite Award for excellence in TV political journalism. Hearst-Argyle becomes the only TV news provider to receive four consecutive Cronkites in any category. |
| 2007年 |
WMUR-TV, Manchester, New Hampshire, innovates a political-blogging competition with social-networking website Gather.com in advance of the June presidential debates from Manchester. |
| 2007年 |
In a landmark arrangement, Hearst-Argyle's WCVB, WMUR, KCRA, WTAE and WBAL announce plans to provide video content to Google's YouTube. The arrangement will include existing and new content, including material specially developed for the Web, as well as user-generated content (UGC). |
| 2008年 |
Hearst-Argyle and Google strike an agreement in which Hearst-Argyle, through its local salesforce, will become an official reseller of Google AdWords, a first for the TV industry. |
| 2008年 |
WYFF-TV, Greenville/Spartanburg, South Carolina, receives the Service to America Television Award from the National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation (NABEF). It is the third consecutive year in which a Hearst-Argyle station receives this, one of the highest public-service honors in media. |
| 2008年 |
Hearst-Argyle is named among Forbes Magazine's "America's 100 Most Trustworthy Companies" for the second consecutive year. |
| 2008年 |
WTAE-TV, Pittsburgh, earns a prestigious national Peabody Award and other local and national honors for an investigation into spending practices at Pennsylvania's state-run student loan agency. |
| 2008年 |
Hearst-Argyle launches a national political poll in conjunction with Pennsylvania's Franklin & Marshall College. |
| 2008年 |
Hearst-Argyle stations earn five prestigious national Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA), including an award to WBAL-TV, Baltimore for its groundbreaking documentary "Africa's Maryland." |
| 2009年 |
Following the successful approach of the biannual "Commitment" election-coverage projects, Hearst-Argyle launches "Project Economy," a multi-faceted effort at coverage of the recession. Among the features is a partnership among Hearst-Argyle stations and various state unemployment offices to assist in viewers' job-hunting efforts. |
| 2009年 |
Hearst-Argyle earns its fifth consecutive Walter Cronkite Award, from USC, for political journalism, furthering its standing as the most-honored TV station owner for election and issues coverage. The Lancaster/Harrisburg, Pennsylvania station WGAL-TV and WESH-TV (Orlando) reporter Greg Fox also are honored, in separate categories. |
| 2009年 |
Hearst-Argyle Television earns a national Peabody Award – its fifth in seven years – for its Commitment 2008 political coverage. |
| 2009年 |
Hearst successfully tenders for the outstanding stock of Hearst-Argyle, changing the name to Hearst Television, which becomes a wholly owned unit of Hearst. |
| 2010年 |
WYFF-TV, Greenville/Spartanburg, South Carolina, earns a national Peabody Award for its special edition of the group-wide Hearst “Chronicle” program entitled “Paul’s Gift.” |
| 2011年 |
Hearst Television earns its sixth consecutive Walter Cronkite Award, for coverage of the 2010 elections. |
| 2011年 |
Respondents to a Hearst Television survey of residents throughout Northeast markets hit by Hurricane Irene cite local TV as their go-to source for vital storm information. |
| 2012年 |
Hearst Television once again takes a leadership role in TV political coverage, committing a minimum of 12 minutes nightly at each station to candidate discourse in the 30 days leading up to primaries and elections. This "12 in \"12\" pledge is among many features of \"Commitment 2012\", which includes an election app and a first-of-its-kind partnership with PolitiFact. |
| 2012年 |
KCCI-TV, KITV, WBAL-TV and WCVB-TV receive prestigious national Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA). |
| 2013年 |
Hearst Television is honored with a University of Missouri Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism. |
| 2014年 |
WCVB-TV picks up a national Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence and KETV for News Documentary |
| 2014年 |
Hearst acquires WVTM-TV, the NBC affiliate in Birmingham, Alabama, and WJCL-TV, the ABC affiliate in Savannah, Georgia, expanding its presence in the Southeast. |
| 2015年 |
Hearst Television receives its eighth consecutive Walter Cronkite Award in the Station Group category. WDSU-TV also is honored in the Small Market category. |
| 2016年 |
Following a successful early run on the Hearst Television stations initiated with its October 2015 launch, Hearst Television’s weekly half-hour interview and discussion program, Matter of Fact with Fernando Espuelas, expands to stations in large and small television markets around the country, reaching a majority of U.S. television households. |
| 2016年 |
NewsON, a venture in which Hearst Television is a founding partner, and which is dedicated to distributing local news nationwide across multiple platforms, quickly adds to its rapidly growing lineup of content sources and by mid-year includes TV stations in nearly 100 markets reaching nearly 80 percent of TV households. |
| 2016年 |
In a banner season for journalism honors, Hearst Television stations within a span of a few weeks are recognized with a national Gabriel Award, presented by the Catholic Academy of Communication Professionals; two Sigma Delta Chi Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists; 16 National Headliner Awards from the Press Club of Atlantic City; and 28 regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, many for “Overall Excellence,” from the Radio Television Digital News Association. The awards, accompanied by multiple state Associated Press awards and regional Emmys, come on the heels of a prestigious Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award to WBAL-TV, Baltimore, and its lead investigative reporter, Jayne Miller, for her reporting on the arrest of Freddie Gray and injuries he sustained while in custody. The honors are capped by a highly coveted Peabody Award, from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism, to WTAE-TV, Pittsburgh, for its investigation of systemic problems within Pennsylvania’s volunteer fire departments leading to wide gaps in fire response times -- a series which helped spur remedial action in the Pennsylvania Legislature. |
| 2016年 |
Hearst Television names its journalism fellowship for the company’s retired senior vice president of news, Fred Young, one of the most honored executives in the history of local television journalism. |
| 2016年 |
KMBC-TV for its coverage of the Clinton, Mo., murders and subsequent manhunt |
| 2016年 |
WBAL for its continuing coverage of the Freddie Gray investigation |
| 2016年 |
KCCI-TV collects three Murrows for various stories impacting Iowans |
| 2016年 |
full station group receives its ninth consecutive USC Annenberg Walter Cronkite Award, for 2016 campaign and election coverage |
| 2017年 |
Hearst Television’s Matter of Fact, now hosted by award-winning journalist and producer Soledad O’Brien, reaches new heights in audience delivery in connection with the show’s growing distribution to more than 80 percent of the country. |
| 2017年 |
Hearst agrees to acquire a majority interest in Litton Entertainment, which produces more than 800 hours of Emmy award-winning scripted and unscripted programming for broadcast networks and station groups each year. Litton Entertainment is a pioneer in educational-and-informational TV production and syndication and is a leading provider to networks in the family entertainment category. |
| 2017年 |
Hearst stations also earn 12 National Headliner Awards including four first-place honors for 2017 |
| 2017年 |
Hearst Television President Jordan Wertlieb is named Broadcasting & Cable magazine’s 2017 “Broadcaster of the Year.” |
| 2018年 |
Hearst completes its previously announced acquisition of WCWG-TV, the CW affiliate in the North Carolina “Triad” market. |
| 2018年 |
Hearst acquires WPXT-TV, the CW affiliate in Portland, Maine, where the company owns the market’s ABC affiliate, WMTW-TV. |
| 2018年 |
Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien adds new station partners, bringing the show’s audience reach ahead of the 2018-2019 TV season to 90 percent of U.S. TV households. |
| 2018年 |
Hearst Television adds an investigative-reporting unit to its Washington, D.C., news bureau. |
| 2018年 |
Hearst stations produce nearly 1,000 news and feature stories totaling nearly 50 hours as part of the groupwide “State of Addiction” project to document the nation’s opioid crisis—and, for its “Commitment 2018” election-coverage effort, nearly 1,000 stories on issues including healthcare, the economy, infrastructure and immigration as well as 72 debates in as many hours. |
| 2018年 |
Among numerous other honors, Hearst stations earn three National Edward R. Murrow Awards and 13 National Headliner Awards, while Hearst Television’s Litton Entertainment unit earns 75 Telly Awards. |
| 2018年 |
Hearst Television launches Hearst Anyscreen, an OTT advertising marketplace featuring premium partners in the areas of content, ad-tech and analytics. |
| 2018年 |
Hearst Television launches Dispatches from the Middle, its first show for Facebook Watch. |
| 2019年 |
Hearst Television is honored with a 10th consecutive Walter Cronkite Award. The honor, for outstanding television political journalism, is given by the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School. Hearst Television has been honored in the Station Group category every cycle since the biennial award’s 2001 inception. |
| 2019年 |
Hearst Television is honored as 2019 Station Group of the Year by Broadcasting & Cable magazine. |
| 2020年 |
Hearst Television stations earn 31 regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, among its highest-ever accumulations, from the Radio Television Digital News Association, honoring outstanding journalism. |
| 2020年10月 |
The “Matter of Fact Listening Tour,” launched in October 2020 to address the ongoing conversation around race, justice and equity, rolls on with additional digital and televised specials featuring such guests as musician John Legend, film director Shaka King, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, among dozens of other leaders in fields including academia, journalism, entertainment, technology, law, medicine, social activism and nonprofits, among others. |
| 2021年 |
2021 Hearst and the Emma Bowen Foundation establish an endowment to provide need-based scholarships and internship opportunities within the media industry to minority students. The endowment, funded by Hearst, honors Hearst Vice President of Finance Jeana Stanley, who passed away in June 2020. The endowment is designed to assist finance students from diverse backgrounds seeking internships and career opportunities in media. In addition to accessing need-based scholarships, students will receive industry-specific education and training and internship opportunities at Hearst stations and other Hearst units as well as other media-related companies. |
| 2021年 |
Broadcasting & Cable magazine honors popular veteran WPTZ-TV weatherman Tom Messner as its “Meteorologist of the Year” and KCRA-TV for “Breaking News Coverage of the Year” for the station’s reporting on the rampaging wildfires plaguing portions of central and northern California in 2021. |
| 2021年10月 |
In October, the conversation about race, equality and justice is the focus of a live multimedia interactive forum across many of Hearst’s media brands with the debut of “The Hard Truth About Bias: Images and Reality.” The digital program, originating from New York and featuring a wide array of topic leaders from across the nation, is a special project of Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien and marks the first installment of the Matter of Fact Listening Tour, unfolding a series of quarterly virtual forums to be presented in 2021. The initiative harnesses the combined digital platforms of Hearst’s consumer media brands to livestream the presentation — including TV stations and newspapers around the country, as well as many of Hearst’s popular magazines — and is also streamed on Matter of Fact’s website, YouTube and Facebook Live channels. |
| 2022年 |
Hearst Television launches its latest fellowship, named for retired Vice President of Engineering Marty Faubell, to help the industry with the crucial task of recruiting young engineering and technology talent. The company and the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Leadership Foundation also launch The Emerson Coleman Fellowship, named for the company’s recently retired senior vice president of programming, to provide young entrants a real-world experience in television programming and production. |
| 2023年 |
Hearst Television President Jordan Wertlieb is recognized with the First Amendment Service Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA); the award honors professionals in local or network news who work in an off-air, management capacity. |
| 2023年 |
Jordan Wertlieb is promoted to executive vice president and chief operating officer of Hearst. Michael Hayes is promoted at Hearst Television from executive vice president and chief operating officer to president, succeeding Wertlieb. |
| 2023年 |
Hearst acquires WBBH-TV, the NBC affiliate serving the Fort Myers/Naples, Florida, TV market, growing its footprint to 27 media markets and nearly three dozen stations reaching approximately one of every five US TV viewers; under the agreement, Hearst Television also provides programming services to WZVN-TV, the market’s ABC affiliate. |
| 2023年 |
At the Telly Awards, Hearst Media Production Group is named Telly Company of the Year and KCRA-TV receives two Silver Tellys for video journalism and long-form documentary. |
| 2023年 |
KCCI receives a National Association of Broadcasters Service to America Award for its series on issues plaguing Iowa’s EMS system. |
| 2023年 |
WBAL-TV, WDSU-TV and WLWT-TV celebrate 75th anniversaries; KMBC-TV, KOAT-TV, KSBW-TV, WYFF-TV and WXII-TV celebrate 70th anniversaries. |
| 2024年 |
The Library of American Broadcasting Foundation honors Hearst Television for work in preserving broadcast history by developing an extensive video archive representing decades of news coverage. |
| 2024年 |
The Emma Bowen Foundation recognizes Hearst Television with its inaugural EBF Inspire Award. |
| 2024年 |
Hearst Television is designated a VETS Indexes 5 Star Employer, recognizing commitment to recruiting, developing and supporting veterans and the military-connected community. |
| 2024年 |
WBAL Radio and WBAL-TV collectively receive three National Headliner Awards for news coverage; in all, eight Hearst stations receive a collective 11 awards. |
| 2024年 |
WBBH-TV earns a National Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Newscast — its sixth national Murrow in four years. |
| 2024年 |
KETV receives a National Association of Broadcasters Service to America Award for its series “Voices of Gen Z.” |
| 2024年 |
In the annual Gracie Awards, KCRA-TV receives the Grand Award in the Documentary category and Hearst Media Production Group’s “Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien” is honored in the TV Newsmagazine category. |
| 2024年 |
Hearst Media Production Group collects five National Daytime Emmy nominations and 109 Telly Awards. |
| 2024年 |
Mutual of Omaha, sponsor of Hearst Media Production Group’s “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom Protecting the Wild,” is honored by the National Association of Broadcasters Leadership Foundation (NABLF) with a Corporate Leadership Award for the company’s many philanthropic efforts. |
| 2024年 |
KOCO-TV, WISN-TV and WMUR-TV celebrate 70th anniversaries. |
| 2025年 |
Hearst stations receive 40 regional Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association. |
