In 1980, Hearst Broadcasting purchased WDTN in Dayton, Ohio, from Grinnell College for a price estimated to be $45–48 million.

Hearst-owned ABC affiliates in National Football League markets simulcast Monday Night Football games from ESPN that involve these teams - ESPN is 20% owned by Hearst, the rest being owned by ABC's parent, The Walt Disney Company.

Most of the company's subchannel stations broadcast either Weigel Broadcasting's MeTV or NBC's Cozi TV through national affiliation deals, along with being charter carriers of Weigel's two newest concepts, Heroes & Icons, and Story Television.

On September 20, 2021, Hearst launched Very Local, an over-the-top media service which consists of news programming from its television stations as well as nationally produced content such as Chronicle and Matter of Fact.

[10][11] On April 5, 2023, the company began the process of purchasing NBC affiliate WBBH-TV in Fort Myers, Florida, which would be acquired from Waterman Broadcasting for $220 million.

[12][13]: 20  The transaction included the local marketing agreement (LMA) for ABC affiliate WZVN-TV with Montclair Communications.

[14] Hearst Television also produces the weekly public-affairs program Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien.

Outside of the Hearst stations and A&E, the show is distributed in national broadcast syndication by Sony Pictures Television.

[15] Hearst once owned Hearst-Argyle Television Productions, a producer and distributor of syndicated programming.