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.
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 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 7 2021 Hearst Television fully acquired Litton's balance and announced moving Litton under a new unified banner for outside productions.
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 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.
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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