Here are a few of the most interesting Hearst statistics and facts I was able to dig up including revenue totals and employee counts. As always, be sure to check back in the future as I will be updating this post as new and updated stats become available.
Hearst Facts
- Website: Official Website
- Year Founded: 1887
- Headquarters: New York, NY
- Founder(s): William Randolph Hearst
- Current Chief Executive: Steve Swartz
- Subsidiaries / Brands: Fitch Ratings, First Databank, King Features Syndicate
What is Hearst?
Hearst is a leading global, diversified media, information and services company with more than 360 businesses. Its major interests include ownership in cable television networks such as A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN; global financial services leader Fitch Group; Hearst Health, a group of medical information and services businesses; transportation assets including CAMP Systems International, a major provider of software-as-a-service solutions for managing maintenance of jets and helicopters; 33 television stations such as WCVB-TV in Boston and KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California, which reach a combined 19 percent of U.S. viewers; newspapers such as the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle and Times Union (Albany, New York); more than 300 magazines around the world, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Men’s Health and Car and Driver, and digital services businesses such as iCrossing and KUBRA; and investments in emerging digital entertainment companies such as Complex Networks. (source)
Top Newspapers owned by Hearst:
- Beaumont Enterprise
- Connecticut Post
- Edwardsville Intelligencer
- Greenwich Time
- Houston Chronicle
- Huron Daily Tribune
- Laredo Morning Times
- Manistee News Advocate
- Midland Daily News
- Midland Reporter-Telegram
- New Haven Register
- Pioneer
- Plainview Daily Herald
- San Antonio Express-News
- San Francisco Chronicle
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- The Advocate
- The Hour
- The Middletown Press
- The News-Times
- The Register Citizen
- The Telegraph
- Times Union
Top Magazines owned by Hearst:
- Bicycling
- Car and Driver
- Cosmopolitan
- Country Living
- Dr. Oz THE GOOD LIFE
- ELLE
- Elle Decor
- Esquire
- Food Network Magazine
- Good Housekeeping
- Harper’s Bazaar
- HGTV Magazine
- House Beautiful
- Marie Claire
- Men’s Health
- Nat Mags
- O, The Oprah Magazine
- Popular Mechanics
- Prevention
- Red
- Redbook
- Road & Track
- Rodale’s Organic Life
- Runner’s World
- Seventeen
- Town & Country
- Veranda
- Woman’s Day
- Women’s Health
Major Websites owned by Hearst:
- Answerology
- BestProducts.com
- CarandDriver.com
- Delish.com
- Digital Spy
- eCrush
- Hearst Interactive Media
- Kaboodle
- RatedRed.com
- RealAge
- RealBeauty.com
Television Stations owned by Hearst:
- WVTM – Alabama
- KHBS – Arkansas
- KHOG – Arkansas
- KCRA – California
- KQCA – California
- KSBW – California
- WESH – Florida
- WKCF – Florida
- WMOR – Florida
- WPBF – Florida
- WJCL – Georgia
- KCCI – Iowa
- WLKY – Kentucky
- WDSU – Louisiana
- WMTW – Maine
- WPXT – Maine
- WBAL – Maryland
- WCVB – Massachusetts
- WAPT – Mississippi
- KMBC – Missouri
- KCWE – Missouri
- KETV – Nebraska
- WMUR – New Hampshire
- KOAT – New Mexico
- WPTZ – New York
- WNNE – New York
- WXII – North Carolina
- WCWG – North Carolina
- WLWT – Ohio
- KOCO – Oklahoma
- WGAL – Pennsylvania
- WTAE – Pennsylvania
- WYFF – South Carolina
- WISN – Wisconsin
Hearst Statistics
Number of businesses and news outlets owned by Hearst:
Last updated 10/23/18
Percentage of US TV viewers reached by Hearst stations:
Last updated 10/23/18
Number of television stations owned by Hearst:
Last updated 2/15/20
Number of magazines owned by Hearst:
Last updated 10/23/18