List of assets owned by Hearst Communications

List of assets owned by Hearst Communications, a privately held American-based media conglomerate based in the Hearst Tower in New York City, New York:

Publishing Newspapers Austin American-Statesman (Austin, Texas) Beaumont Enterprise (Beaumont, Texas) The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, Texas) Edwardsville Intelligencer (Edwardsville, Illinois) Hearst Connecticut Media Group (HCMG) Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, Connecticut) Greenwich Time (Greenwich, Connecticut) The Hour (Norwalk, Connecticut) Journal Inquirer (Manchester, Connecticut) The Middletown Press (Middletown, Connecticut) The New Haven Register (New Haven, Connecticut) The News-Times (Danbury, Connecticut) RJ Media Group The Cheshire Herald (Cheshire, Connecticut) Record-Journal (Meriden, Connecticut) The Register Citizen (Torrington, Connecticut) Stamford Advocate (Stamford, Connecticut) Houston Chronicle (Houston, Texas) Huron Daily Tribune (Bad Axe, Michigan) Journal-Courier (Jacksonville, Illinois) Laredo Morning Times (Laredo, Texas) Manistee News Advocate (Manistee, Michigan) Midland Daily News (Midland, Michigan) Midland Reporter-Telegram (Midland, Texas) The Pioneer (Big Rapids, Michigan) Plainview Daily Herald (Plainview, Texas) San Antonio Express-News (San Antonio, Texas) San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, California) The Telegraph (Alton, Illinois) Times Union (Albany, New York) seattlepi.com, formerly the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, Washington)

Magazines Bicycling Car and Driver Cosmopolitan Country Living Delish Elle Elle Decor Esquire Food Network Magazine Good Housekeeping Harper's Bazaar HGTV Magazine House Beautiful Inside Soap Men's Health Motor Trend Oprah Daily The Pioneer Woman Popular Mechanics Prevention Redbook Road & Track Runner's World San Antonio Magazine Seventeen Town & Country Veranda Woman's Day Women's Health

Broadcasting

Production & distribution Hearst Media Production Group NorthSouth Productions (50%) Hearst Entertainment

Radio

Media market State Station Purchased Notes Baltimore Maryland WBAL 1935 WIYY 1960

Television Media market State Station Purchased Affiliation Notes Birmingham–Tuscaloosa–Anniston Alabama WVTM-TV 2014 Fort Smith–Fayetteville–Rogers Arkansas KHBS 1996 KHOG-TV 1996 Sacramento–Stockton–Modesto California KCRA-TV 1999 NBC KQCA 2000 The CW (primary)/MyNetworkTV (secondary) Salinas–Monterey–Santa Cruz KSBW 1998 Daytona Beach–Orlando–Clermont Florida WESH 1999 NBC WKCF 2006 The CW Fort Myers–Cape Coral–Naples WBBH-TV 2023 NBC WZVN-TV 2023 ABC Lakeland–Tampa–St. Petersburg WMOR-TV 1996 Independent Tequesta–West Palm Beach WPBF 1997 ABC Savannah Georgia WJCL 2014 ABC Des Moines Iowa KCCI 1999 CBS Louisville Kentucky WLKY 1999 CBS New Orleans Louisiana WDSU 1999 NBC Poland Spring–Portland Maine WMTW 2004 ABC WPXT 2018 The CW Baltimore Maryland WBAL-TV ** 1948 NBC Boston Massachusetts WCVB-TV 1986 ABC Jackson Mississippi WAPT 1994 Kansas City Missouri KMBC-TV 1982 ABC KCWE 2006 The CW Omaha Nebraska KETV 1999 ABC Manchester New Hampshire WMUR-TV 2001 ABC Albuquerque–Santa Fe New Mexico KOAT-TV 1999 Winston-Salem–Greensboro–High Point North Carolina WXII-TV 1999 NBC WCWG 2018 The CW Cincinnati Ohio WLWT 1997 NBC Oklahoma City Oklahoma KOCO-TV 1997 ABC Lancaster–Harrisburg–York–Lebanon Pennsylvania WGAL 1999 NBC Pittsburgh WTAE-TV ** 1958 ABC Greenville–Spartanburg–Anderson South Carolina WYFF 1999 Burlington–Montpelier Vermont WPTZ 1998 NBC WNNE 1998 The CW Milwaukee Wisconsin WISN-TV 1955 ABC

Cable A+E Global Media A&E History FYI Viceland Military History Crime & Investigation Network Lifetime LMN Lifetime Real Women Defy (broadcast network; joint venture with Free TV Networks) Cosmopolitan Television ESPN, LLC (18%, with The Walt Disney Company and National Football League which hold 72% majority and 10% equity stake respectively) ESPN ESPN2 ESPN Classic ESPNEWS ESPN Deportes ESPNU ESPN Now ESPN Plus ESPN Films ESPN PPV ESPN Regional Television (dba ESPN Events) ESPN International (see for complete list of channels) North American Sports Network TSN (30%) ESPN Radio Mobile ESPN ESPN3 ESPN The Magazine ESPN Home Entertainment (currently distributed by Genius Products) ESPN Outdoors BASS ESPN Digital Center Arena Football League (undisclosed minority stake acquired December 2006)

Business media Blackbook CAMP Systems International, Inc. CAMP Europe S.A.S. CAMP Data Support and Services (DSS), Ltd. Inventory Locator Service, LLC Continuum Applied Technology Component Control AMSTAT IC Master Electronic Engineers Master Catalog Electronic Products Magazine First DataBank FleetCross Floor Covering Weekly Homecare Homebase IDG/Hearst Local.com MCG Health MHK Metrix4Media MOTOR Information Systems Noregon Systems NOVA Electronik ODG (Work Loss Data Institute) QGenda Stocknet StructuredContent TL Publications Used Car Guides Zynx Health Incorporated

Interactive media Investments include:

XM Satellite Radio MetaTV Circles Mobility Technologies Cymfony drugstore.com Referral Networks Hire.com govWorks.com Genealogy.com Scene7 Tavolo Medscape iVillage, Inc. Brandwise Broadcast.com Exodus E Ink Corporation Zip2 I Pro Netscape Digital Spy UGO Networks RealAge Delish.com Savored Manilla Hearst Shkulev Digital Puzzmo

Other CDS Global Fitch Group Hearst Holdings, Inc. Hearst Shkulev Media iCrossing, Inc. King Features Syndicate KUBRA Data Transfer Ltd. (80%) LocalEdge - formerly THE TALKING PHONE BOOK, Reed Brennan Wyntoon

Former assets

Dormant or shuttered Litton Entertainment (absorbed into Hearst Media Production Group) Litton Worldwide Distribution Litton Media Sales Litton News Source Hearst Entertainment Productions (defunct)

ESPN (18% with The Walt Disney Company (72%) and the National Football League (10%))

ESPN Zone – Closed in 2018. Sony ESPN – Joint-venture with Sony Pictures Television Networks. ESPN3 – Closed on December 2, 2025. ESPN Classic – Closed in 2021. ESPN Plaza Longhorn Network – Closed on June 30, 2024, replaced with SEC Network.

Divested

Light TV (joint venture with Mark Burnett, Roma Downey and MGM Television, sold to Allen Media Group and rebranded as TheGrio TV) New England Cable News (joint venture between Comcast and Hearst, sold its stake to Comcast)

ESPN (18% with The Walt Disney Company (72%) and the National Football League (10%))

Arena Football League – Closed and re-established.

Bass Anglers Sportsman Society – Sold back to original owners in 2010. ESPN UK – Sold to BT Group in 2013, license was revoked in the 2020s following WarnerMedia's then stake acquisition.

X Games – Sold to MSP Sports Capital in 2022.

Former media The American Weekly (1896-1966): Sunday newspaper supplement (November 1, 1896, until 1966) The Atlanta Georgian (1912-1939) Baltimore News-American and predecessors (1923-1986) Boston Herald and predecessors (1904-1982) Chicago American (1900-1956) The Connoisseur (1901-1992) Detroit Times (1921-1960) Dr. Oz The Good Life (2014–2021) Locomotion (1996-2005) Los Angeles Herald Examiner and predecessors (1903-1989) Marie Claire (1994-2021) Milwaukee Sentinel and predecessors (1919-1962) Nash's Magazine (1910-1937) New York Journal-American and predecessors (1896-1966) New York Daily Mirror (1924-1928, 1932–1963) Oakland Post Enquirer (1922-1960) Omaha Daily Bee (1928-1937) Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph (1927-1960) Rochester Journal-American (1922-1937) San Francisco Examiner (1880-2000) Science Digest (1937-1988) Sports Afield (1953-2000) Syracuse Herald-Journal and predecessors (1922-1939) The Washington Times and The Washington Herald (1917-1939)

Notes

See also Lists of corporate assets

References

Sources Columbia Journalism Review