The E.W. Scripps Company

Type	Public (NYSE: SSP)
Founded	1878 (Originally as The Cleveland Penny Press)
Headquarters	Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Key people	Edward W. Scripps (1854-1926), Founder Roy W. Howard (1883-1964) Richard A. Boehne (President & CEO)
Industry	Broadcast Television/News Publication Community Educational Services
Revenue	$1.1 billion USD (2007)
Website	www.scripps.com

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

On October 16, 2007, the company announced that it would separate into two publicly traded companies: The E. W. Scripps Company (newspapers, TV stations, licensing/syndication) and Scripps Networks Interactive (HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network, Fine Living, Great American Country, Shopzilla, uSwitch). The transaction was completed on July 1, 2008 forming Scripps Networks Interactive.

Contents 1 Scripps newspapers 1.1 Closed newspapers 1.2 Syndicates 2 Broadcasting 2.1 Television stations 2.2 Former Scripps-owned stations 2.2.1 Television stations 2.2.2 Radio stations 3 National Spelling Bee 4 Images 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Scripps newspapers

The Company owns and operates newspapers in 14 American markets. Scripps-owned newspapers:

• Times Record News (Wichita Falls, Texas)
• The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Texas)
• Daily Camera and Colorado Daily (Boulder, Colorado)
• The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee)
• Evansville Courier & Press (Evansville, Indiana)
• The Gleaner (Henderson, Kentucky)
• Kitsap Sun (Bremerton, Washington)
• The Knoxville News-Sentinel (Knoxville, Tennessee)
• Naples Daily News (Naples, Florida)
• Stuart News (Stuart, Florida) - First currently active newspaper acquired by Scripps in 1965
• Ventura County Star (Camarillo, California)
• Vero Beach Press Journal (Vero Beach, Florida)
• San Angelo Standard-Times (San Angelo, Texas)
• Corpus Christi Caller Times (Corpus Christi, Texas)
• The Anderson Independent-Mail (Anderson, South Carolina)

[edit] Closed newspapers

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• Houston Press (Houston, Texas) (closed 1964)
• New York World-Telegram (New York City) (closed 1966)
• The Washington Daily News (Washington, DC) (sold 1972)
• Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Texas) (closed 1975)
• Cleveland Press (Cleveland, Ohio) (closed 1982)
• Memphis Press-Scimitar (Memphis, Tennessee) (closed 1983)
• Columbus Citizen-Journal (Columbus, Ohio) (closed 1985)
• Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) (closed 1992)
• Thousand Oaks News Chronicle (Thousand Oaks, California) (closed 1995)
• Birmingham Post-Herald (Birmingham, Alabama) (closed 2005)
• dirt (Boulder, Colorado) (closed 2006)
• Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, Ohio) (closed 2007)
• The Albuquerque Tribune (Albuquerque, New Mexico) (closed 2008)
• Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Colorado) (closed 2009) - Purchased in 1926
• Youngstown Telegram (Youngstown, Ohio) (took over & bought by The Youngstown Vindicator Printing Company)

[edit] Syndicates

Scripps owns the Scripps Howard News Service and United Media, which syndicates several popular comic strips including Peanuts, Dilbert and Marmaduke.

[edit] Broadcasting

E.W. Scripps' television division currently owns ten television stations in nine markets.

Scripps also previously owned the Shop at Home home-shopping television network, which in turn owned five television stations. On May 22, 2006, Scripps announced that it was to cease operations of the network and intended to sell each of Shop at Home's five owned and operated television stations.^[1] Jewelry Television eventually acquired Shop at Home, but Scripps still intended to sell its affiliated stations. On September 26, 2006, Scripps announced that it was selling its Shop at Home TV stations to New York City-based Multicultural Television for $170 million. ^[2]

[edit] Television stations

Notes:
** indicates a station built and signed on by E.W. Scripps.
++ indicates stations operated by Belo (who would ultimately purchase the stations outright from Scripps) under time brokerage agreements during the time frame in which Scripps held the stations' licenses. Scripps never held operational control of these stations.

DMA#	City of license/Market	Station	Channel TV / DT	Owned Since	Affiliation	Notes
11.	Detroit	WXYZ-TV	7 / 41	1986	ABC
12.	Phoenix	KNXV-TV	15 / 56	1985	ABC
14.	Tampa - St. Petersburg	WFTS-TV	28 / 29	1986	ABC
18.	Cleveland - Akron	WEWS **	5 / 15	1947	ABC	First station to own E. W. Scripps
27.	Baltimore	WMAR-TV	2 / 52	1991	ABC
32.	Kansas City, Missouri	KSHB-TV	41 / 42	1977	NBC
	Lawrence, Kansas	KMCI	38 / 36	2001	Independent
33.	Cincinnati	WCPO-TV **	9 / 10	1949	ABC	Owned this station since launch
38.	West Palm Beach	WPTV-TV	5 / 55	1961	NBC	Currently owns this station after the early years.
61.	Tulsa, Oklahoma	KJRH-TV	2 / 56	1971	NBC

[edit] Former Scripps-owned stations

[edit] Television stations

DMA#	City of license/Market	Station	Channel TV / DT	Years owned	Affiliation
1.	Bridgeport, CT - New York City	WSAH-TV	43 / 42	2002-2007	Independent owned by Multicultural Television
6.	San Francisco	KCNS	38 / 39	2002-2006	Independent owned by Multicultural Television
7.	Lawrence - Boston, MA	WMFP	62 / 18	2002-2007	RTV affiliate owned by Multicultural Television
18.	Canton - Cleveland, OH	WOAC (now WRLM)	67 / 47	2002-2006	TCT owned-and-operated (O&O)
26.	Wilson - Raleigh - Durham, N.C.	WRAY-TV	30 / 42	2002-2006	Independent owned by Multicultural Television (sale to TCT pending)
37.	San Antonio	KENS-TV ++	5 / 55	1997	CBS affiliate owned by Belo Corporation
50.	Memphis	WMCT/WMC-TV **	5 / 52	1948-1993	NBC affiliate owned by Raycom Media

[edit] Radio stations

DMA#	Market	Station	Current Ownership
23.	Portland, Oregon	KUPL-FM-98.5	owned by CBS Radio
		KUPL-970 (now KCMD)	owned by CBS Radio
24.	Baltimore	WBSB-FM-104.3 (now WCHH)	owned by Clear Channel Communications
32.	Cincinnati	WCPO-1230 (now WDBZ)	owned by Radio One
		WUBE-FM-105.1	owned by Bonneville International
28.	Cleveland	WEWS-FM-102.1 (now WDOK)	owned by CBS Radio
37.	San Antonio, Texas	KENS-1160 ++ (now KRDY)	owned by Disney/ABC Radio
41.	Memphis	WMC-970	owned by Entercom
		WMC-FM-99.7	owned by Entercom
63.	Knoxville, Tennessee	WNOX-990 (now WNML)	owned by Citadel Broadcasting

[edit] 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.

[edit] Images

The Scripps Center in Downtown Cincinnati.

[edit] See also

• Edward W. Scripps
• James E. Scripps
• Charles Scripps
• Scripps Howard Foundation
• Scripps Ranch

[edit] References

1. ^ E. W. Scripps Company (2006-05-16). "Scripps ceasing Shop At Home operations". Press release. http://pressreleases.scripps.com/release/854. Retrieved 2007-10-28. 
2. ^ E. W. Scripps Company (2006-09-26). "Scripps sells Shop At Home TV stations". Press release. http://pressreleases.scripps.com/release/877. Retrieved 2007-10-28. 

[edit] External links

• Scripps Corporate Site
• Scripps Howard News Service

v • d • e The E.W. Scripps Company Corporate leadership: Richard A. Boehne (President and CEO) Newspapers: The Abilene Reporter-News · The Anderson Independent-Mail · The Commercial Appeal · Corpus Christi Caller-Times · Evansville Courier & Press · The Gleaner · Kitsap Sun · The Knoxville News-Sentinel · Metro Pulse · Naples Daily News · Redding Record Searchlight · San Angelo Standard-Times · Stuart News · Times Record News · Ventura County Star · Vero Beach Press Journal Television stations: ABC affiliated stations KNXV · WCPO · WEWS · WFTS · WMAR · WXYZ NBC affiliated stations KJRH · KSHB · WPTV Independent station KMCI Other holdings: Scripps National Spelling Bee · United Media Annual Revenue: $1.1 billion USD (2007) · Employees: 7,000 · Stock Symbol: NYSE: SSP · Website: www.scripps.com