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The E.W. Scripps Company
Company typePublic (NYSE: SSP)
IndustryBroadcast Television
Cable Television
News Publication
Community Educational Services
Interactive Media
Founded1878 (Originally as The Cleveland Penny Press)
HeadquartersCincinnati, Ohio, USA
Key people
Edward W. Scripps (1854-1926), Founder
Roy W. Howard (1883-1964)
Kenneth W. Lowe (President & CEO)
Richard A. Boehne (Executive VP)
Revenue$2.2 billion USD (2004)
Websitewww.scripps.com

The E.W. Scripps Company (NYSE: SSP) is an American media conglomerate founded by Edward W. Scripps on November 2, 1878, originally known as the Cleveland Penny Press. The company is headquartered inside the Scripps Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

Scripps newspapers

The E.W. Scripps Company is sometimes confused with the far less successful Scripps League of Newspapers. On January 11, 2007, Scripps announced that they are in the process of selling their entire newspaper chain, which has now become a financial drag for the company.

Closed newspapers

Scripps-owned television stations

There are a total of 15 television stations that E W Scripps own. 10 of them are in direct ownership of the company and the other remaining 5 through its prior ownership of the Shop at Home Television Network. On May 22, 2006, Scripps announced that it was to cease the operations of the network and intends to sell each of Shop at Home's 5 owned and operated television stations. Jewelry Television eventually acquired Shop at Home, but Scripps still intend on selling its affiliated stations. [1] Just confirmed on September 26, 2006, Scripps announced that it is selling its Shop at Home TV stations to Multicultural Television of New York City for $170 million. [2] Multicultural closed on KCNS (San Francisco), WOAC (Cleveland) and WRAY (Raleigh) on December 20 2006. The remaining two stations, WMFP and WSAH, are still owned by Scripps for the time being since Multicultural has not yet been granted the necessary permits in those two markets.

Current DMA# Market Station ... Channel
Number (DT) 		Year Acquired Current Affiliation Notes
7. Boston WBZ 4 (30) 1982 CBS Used to be an NBC affliate
11. Washington D.C. WRC-TV 4 (48) 1986 NBC none.
12. Tampa - St. Petersburg WFTS-TV 28 (29) 1986 ABC Was owned by Capital Cities prior to
1986.
13. Phoenix KNXV-TV 15 (56) 1985 ABC
17. Cleveland - Akron - Canton WEWS-TV 5 (15) 1947 ABC Founded as the company's flagship
station.
24. Baltimore WMAR-TV 2 (52) 1991 ABC Was owned by Gillett Communications
prior to 1991.
28. Bridgeport - Hartford -
New Haven 		WSAH 43 (42) 1999 Shop at Home /
Jewelry TV 		Also serves the #1 New York City market.
Sale to Multicultural Television pending.
31. Lawrence - Kansas City KSHB-TV 41 (42) 1977 NBC /
NBC WX Plus 		Held a Local Marketing Agreement with
KMCI prior to 2001.
KMCI 38 (36) 2001 Independent Was previously controlled by KSHB-TV
under a Local Marketing Agreement
before Scripps acquired the station
outright in 2001.
33. Cincinnati WCPO-TV 9 (10) 1949 ABC Named after the Cincinnati Post
Newspaper.
38. West Palm Beach -
Fort Pierce 		WPTV-TV 5 (55) 1961 NBC
62. Tulsa KJRH 2 (56) 1971 NBC /
NBC WX Plus 		Named after former Scripps chairman
Jack R. Howard.

Scripps was also the founder and original owner of WMC-TV in Memphis, Tennessee when the station began its broadcast operation on December 11, 1948. Scripps later sold the station to Ellis Communications in 1993, which became part of Raycom Media in 1996 following a merger.

Scripps also owned KENS-AM (now KRDY) and KENS-TV in San Antonio, Texas from October 15 to December 4, 1997, when both stations were swapped to the Belo Corporation for a controlling ownership stake in the Food Network.

At one point the company had also owned five radio stations in Memphis, Cincinnati, Knoxville, Tennessee and Portland, Oregon.

Scripps-owned cable television networks

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National Spelling Bee

File:Scripps spelling bee website.jpg
The website of the Scripps National spelling Bee.
Main article: Scripps National Spelling Bee

Scripps also operates the national (US) spelling bee. The final competition is in Washington, DC and broadcast on ESPN and ABC. Lower levels are organized by the school, then county and eventually to the final competition.

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See also

Other references

Scripps-owned online properties


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