Hearst Media Production Group
American media and production company
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| 2024 | Certain stations began stopping their carriage of the Go Time programming block. |
| September 2 2023 | Hearst Media Production Group joined 'Vets Saving Pets' program from NBC. |
| September 2 2023 | Hearst Media Production Group joined 'Did I Mention Invention?' program on The CW/CBS. |
| June 30 2023 | The sale of WBBH-TV and local marketing agreement for WZVN-TV was completed. |
| April 5 2023 | Hearst began the process of purchasing NBC affiliate WBBH-TV in Fort Myers, Florida, from Waterman Broadcasting for $220 million. |
| March 3 2022 | Made an agreement with Toonz Media Group to co-produce and distribute animated productions in the United States, including Paddypaws, Sunnyside Billy, Kingdom of None, and Aliens in My Backpack. |
| January 2022 | Hearst rebranded Litton Entertainment as Hearst Media Production Group, which also took over production of Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien. |
| January 28 2022 | Officially renamed to Hearst Media Production Group (HMPG). |
| 2021 | Ended active production of Jack Hanna's shows following his retirement due to an Alzheimer's diagnosis, but will continue to distribute his shows indefinitely. |
| September 20 2021 | Hearst launched Very Local, an over-the-top media service featuring news programming from its television stations and nationally produced content. |
| September 7 2021 | Hearst Television fully acquired Litton's balance and announced moving Litton under a new unified banner for outside productions. |
| 2019 | Jeff Rossen, a former Today consumer affairs reporter, joined Hearst as a multi-platform consumer affairs reporter, creating syndicated reports including COVID-19 pandemic consumer issue Q&A segments. |
| 2018 | Hearst Television acquired WPXT in Poland Spring–Portland, Maine and WCWG in Winston-Salem–Greensboro–High Point, North Carolina. |
| January 6 2018 | Hearst Media launched Mi Telemundo programming block on Telemundo. |
| January 6 2018 | Telemundo relaunched MiTelemundo block to carry programs from NBC's The More You Know block in Spanish. |
| 2017 | Hearst Corporation acquires the media and production company, rebranding it as Hearst Media Production Group (HMPG). |
| 2017 | Hearst Media Production Group concluded its direct involvement in producing E/I programming blocks, ending a six-year period of creating educational television content for children. |
| February 1 2017 | Hearst Television closed the acquisition deal with Litton. |
| January 25 2017 | Litton and Tribune Media announced a deal to provide E/I content for Tribune's Antenna TV network for the 2017–18 season. |
| January 6 2017 | Hearst acquired majority control of Charleston, South Carolina-based syndicator Litton Entertainment. |
| January 6 2017 | Hearst Television announced acquisition of a majority stake in Litton for an undisclosed amount. |
| October 8 2016 | The More You Know programming block launched on NBC, succeeding NBC Kids. |
| October 1 2016 | Go Time syndicated programming block launched. |
| February 24 2016 | Litton and NBC announced The More You Know programming block. |
| April 27 2015 | Litton announced Go Time, a syndicated block of E/I programming drawn from reruns of its other network blocks. |
| 2014 | Ocean Mysteries With Jeff Corwin won two Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards for Outstanding Travel Program and Outstanding Directing in a Lifestyle/Culinary/Travel Program. |
| October 4 2014 | Litton introduced its third Saturday morning block, One Magnificent Morning, for The CW, succeeding Saban Brands' Vortexx block. |
| August 20 2014 | Hearst Television announced the acquisition of WVTM in Birmingham, Alabama, and WJCL in Savannah, Georgia, from Media General. |
| 2013 | Premiere of The Wildlife Docs, a half-hour exotic animal veterinary show that ran until 2018. |
| September 28 2013 | Litton introduced its second Saturday morning network television block, CBS Dream Team, focusing on teenagers 13 to 16 years old and succeeding CBS' previous Cookie Jar TV block. |
| 2011 | Completed its initial phase of development and expansion during the early period from 1988 to 2011, setting the groundwork for future media production activities. |
| 2011 | Hearst Media Production Group began its involvement in producing educational and informative (E/I) programming blocks for children's television, contributing to mandated educational content requirements. |
| 2011 | The company completed a significant restructuring of its media production operations, marking the end of its early history phase. |
| September 3 2011 | Litton's Weekend Adventure programming block premiered on ABC. |
| May 2011 | Litton reached a deal with ABC's affiliate board to syndicate Litton's Weekend Adventure, an educational and informative programming block, following the announcement of plans to discontinue the ABC Kids Saturday morning block. |
| January 2011 | Distributed the hip-hop newsmagazine Direct Access, hosted by Darian 'Big Tigger' Morgan, to Tribune Broadcasting stations and Weigel Broadcasting's WCIU-TV/Chicago. |
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