HMG is the parent company of media-related companies in Eastern North Carolina.

The company is currently comprised of Cable 7 Television and Talk 1070 (WNCT-AM) radio.

HMG is headquartered in Greenville, N.C. and continues to be a leader in media-related businesses in Eastern North Carolina and throughout the state.

Henry Hinton

Henry Hinton, a 1975 East Carolina University graduate, is president and founder of the company.

Hinton is formerly the Chairman of the Greenville-Pitt Chamber of Commerce. He is also the former President of the North Carolina Association of Broadcasters and currently serves on that board of directors. He is also currently on the board of directors for the North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research.

Henry is a frequent guest and sometimes host of the popular state-wide political talk show NC Spin.

Hinton was named Greenville's Small Business Leader of the Year for 2002. He has received the Distinguished Service Award from both East Carolina University and the NC Association of Broadcasters. In 2002, he was inducted into the ECU Order of the Cupola.

Hank Hinton

Hank Hinton is the Director of Sales and Marketing for HMG. Hank is a graduate of the University of North Carolina with a degree in advertising and marketing from the UNC School of Journalism.

During his time in Chapel Hill Hank worked extensively in the advertising field interning at such triangle public relations and advertising firms as Capitol Communications and Ad Street.

Upon graduation Hank worked for Capitol Broadcasting as an account executive at the top radio station in Raleigh, WRAL-FM, Mix 101.5.

Patrick Johnson

Patrick serves as Talk 1070's news and sports director and is the producer and co-host of Talk of the Town. Johnson hosts various sports programming for HMG and serves as the host of Talk 1070's pre-game show for ECU football.

Having worked in radio and television since the age of 17, Johnson continues to work as a free lance play-by-play announcer for football, basketball and baseball at the college, prep and professional levels on both radio and television around the state and in the Mid-Atlantic region.

The ECU graduate has been with HMG since August, 2004.

Trent McGee

Trent provides Talk of the Town listeners with sports headlines in the mornings. The ECU graduate has been with the company since late 2005. McGee works behind the scenes with Cable 7 on ToT broadcasts and other programming.

He serves as a free lance announcer for high school football and basketball broadcasts on radio in the Northeastern part of NC.

History

In 1989, Henry Hinton founded New East Communications in Greenville, NC. The company owned and operated radio stations in Eastern North Carolina for 14 years. The stations were 98.3 WCZI Greenville, 94.3 WGPM Greenville and 103.3 WKQT Morehead City (currently V-103, WMGV).

Cable 7, a local community based cable television channel, was added to the group in 1997. Locally produced programs from WCZI-FM were simulcast on the station and other television-only programs were developed. Through a programming agreement with Cox Communications, Cable 7 continues its mission today reaching over 55,000 homes in the Greenville-Washington-Williamston-Bethel-Robersonville areas, now simulcasting many Talk 1070 local programs.

Southeast Video Productions, the largest producer of television commercials east of Raleigh, was purchased as the production arm of the company in 1999. Production manager Robert Bonner purchased Southeast Video from HMG in January of 2005. Through that agreement SEV remained in the same building and provides production for Cable 7 today.

In December of 2002, New East sold its remaining radio stations, WCZI and WGPM, to Archway Broadcasting Group of Atlanta. WKQT was divested in 1996.

At that time, New East was dissolved and the company was restructured under the name Hinton Media Group.

In 2004 HMG formed a partnership with Beasley Broadcasting Group, one of the largest broadcast groups in America, on radio station WNCT-AM in Greenville. HMG developed the brand "Talk 1070" for the station and handles all marketing, programming and advertising sales.

In April of 2006, Talk 1070 became just the third AM station in the state to broadcast at 50,000 watts. It is the first station in the state to broadcast in high definition on the AM band.