Update: We found out the sale price: it is about $10 million, our sources say. Original post: Lifetime Networks’ digital push continues with its first acquisition—picking up privately held ParentsClick…

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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…

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The acquisition of our parent company, ContentNext Media, is a major change for us, but it also marks a turning point for the UK company to which we now belong.…

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-- 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…

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Following through on an internet strategy that has rested heavily on working with MSN for the past two years, Hearst Magazines is working with the Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) portal on…

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Hearst Business Media, the B2B media arm of Hearst, has jointly bought out a Chinese electronics infomation site EE365.cn, along with its local publishing partner Publishing House of Electronic Industry…

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Hearst, the media company which has made a number of major digital moves in the last few years even as its traditional businesses are bleeding, will have a management change…

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TV station owner Hearst-Argyle (NYSE: HTV) saw revenues decline 2.6 percent in Q1 to $165.1 million as the softening economy held back spending from automakers, the broadcaster’s largest ad category.…

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Hearst Interactive, the digital media investment arm of Hearst Corp, is incubating a Kindle-like e-book reader, paidContent.org has learned, and the separate venture is called FirstPaper. The stealth startup is…

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Another deal in the hot health info space… Hearst has acquired Map of Medicine, a UK-based medical info service targeting doctors, from B2B media firm Informa. The web-accessible service, launched…

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Hearst has bought out online relationships advice site Answerology.com, we have learned, and now confirmed through the company. The site, based in New York City and founded in 2005 by…

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Like pretty much every large magazine publisher, Hearst has been heavily focused on refining its online strategy for the past year. After a good deal of experimentation, the company has…

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We hear that NYC-based online ad network Collective Media has won a bid to power quadrantONE, the online newspaper advertising alliance backed by The Tribune Company, Gannett (NYSE: GCI), Hearst…

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Hearst-Argyle (NYSE: HTV) has reported Q4 revenue of $216.6 million, down 8 percent year-over-year from $234.4 million. Net income slipped 23.8 percent to $33.6 ($.35 per share) million from $44.1…

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-- NBCU’s entertainment sites offer retro shows: NBC Digital Entertainment and NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) Cable Entertainment announced they will be offering vintage TV content on their entertainment sites, NBC.com,…

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-- National Geographic Global Media: NGGM has announced Maps.com veteran Charles Regan as its new VP-digital mapping business. Regan will report to SVP Paul Levine and be responsible for maintaining…

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Privately-held newspaper publisher MediaNews Group has filed its latest quarterly figures with the SEC, showing revenue of $345.2 million, down 7.2 percent from $372.4 million. A 9.1 percent decrease in…

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This has been in works for a while as an alternative to the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) newspaper consortium, as well as the Google-newspapers ad effort, and now it is finally…

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-- Lehman Charts Online Ad Slowdown Through ‘09: Online ad revenues in United States will grow 25.6 percent, 23.6 percent and 20 percent in 2007, ‘08 and 09, respectively, according…

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This was buried in newspaper conglom MediaNews‘s 10-Q filed earlier today with SEC: the newspaper group, along with The Hearst Corp., has bought 80 percent of online classifieds and software…

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Real estate site Zillow.com, which specializes in house price comparisons, will carry real estate listings from 11 newspaper publishers including Hearst Newspapers, Lee Enterprises, (NYSE: LEE) MediaNews Group, EW Scripps…

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Five of the largest U.S. newspaper chains are considering a new national ad network that could both overlap and compete with the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) newspaper consortium, according to the…

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Hearst has paid $317 million for a stake in rival newspaper publisher MediaNews Group, Reuters reported, citing a regulatory filing. The complicated deal involves the ownership of several newspaper in…

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Hearst Corp. has made a preliminary offer of £700 million ($1.4 billion) for the consumer division of Emap (LSE: EMA), reports the FT. Apax Partners is reported to be the…

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Hearst is on a mini-acquisition tear: it is buying health and wellness info site RealAge, for what NYT estimates to be around $100 million. Founded in 1999, RealAge refers to…

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