---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-311656"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HLIT"
cik: "0000851310"
company_name: "HARMONIC INC."
filed_at: "2025-12-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T13:53:18.749102+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Harmonic to sell Video Business to MediaKind for $145M cash; closes H1 2026

## Summary
- Put Option Agreement gives Harmonic right to require MediaKind to buy its Video Business for $145M in cash.
- Transaction subject to French works council consultation, customary regulatory approvals; expected close in H1 2026.
- Harmonic will sharpen focus on core virtualized Broadband business; receives capital infusion to bolster balance sheet.
- Harmonic reaffirms total company Q4 2025 financial guidance; conference call at 8:00 a.m. ET today.
- MediaKind CEO Allen Broome says combination will create leading independent streaming infrastructure company.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-311656
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HLIT
- cik: 0000851310
- company_name: HARMONIC INC.
- filed_at: 2025-12-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/851310/000119312525311656/0001193125-25-311656-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/851310/000119312525311656/d30982d8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-311656
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-311656.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-311656.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  HARMONIC INC. entered into Put Option Agreement with Leone Media Inc. (d/b/a MediaKind) valued at $145 million in cash (effective 2025-12-08).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: asset purchase
  - Counterparty: Leone Media Inc. (d/b/a MediaKind)
  - Value: $145 million in cash
  - Effective: 2025-12-08
  source text: On December 8, 2025 Harmonic Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a Put Option Agreement (the “Put Option Agreement”) between the Company and Leone Media Inc. (d/b/a MediaKind) (the “Buyer”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/851310/000119312525311656/0001193125-25-311656-index.htm

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