E. W. Scripps Company

See also:Scripps Networks Interactive

The E. W. Scripps Company

Type	Public (NYSE: SSP)
Industry	Broadcast Television/News Publication Community Educational Services
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)
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. Its corporate motto is "Give light and the people will find their own way."^[1]

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 (NYSE: SNI), (HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network, Fine Living [now known as Cooking Channel], Great American Country, Shopzilla, uSwitch). The transaction was completed on July 1, 2008.

On October 3, 2011 The E.W. Scripps Company announced it was purchasing the television arm of McGraw-Hill for $212 million^[2]/. This purchase nearly doubles the number Scripps stations to 19 with a combined reach of 13% of U.S. households.

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)
• 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)
• Redding Record Searchlight (Redding, California)

Closed newspapers

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• Toledo News-Bee (Toledo, Ohio) (closed August 2, 1938)
• Houston Press (Houston, Texas) (closed 1964)
• Indianapolis Times (Indianapolis, Indiana) (Closed October 11, 1965)
• 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 December 31, 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)
• The Daily Camera (Boulder, Colorado) (took over & bought by Media News Group Inc.)
• El Paso Herald-Post (El Paso, Texas) (closed 1997)
• San Francisco News (San Francisco, California) (founded 1903, merged with the Hearst Corporation's San Francisco Call-Bulletin to form the News-Call Bulletin in 1959, Hearst acquiring complete control in 1962 and merging it with the San Francisco Examiner in 1965)

Syndicates

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

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.^[3] 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.^[4]

On October 3, 2011, The E.W. Scripps Company announced it was purchasing all seven television stations owned by The McGraw-Hill Companies for $212 million; the sale is a result of McGraw-Hill's decision to exit the broadcasting industry to focus on its other core properties, including its publishing unit.^[5]

Television stations

Notes:
1) Two boldface asterisks appearing following a station's call letters (**) indicates a station that was built and signed-on by E.W. Scripps;
2) Two boldface plus signs appearing following a station's call letters (++) indicate a station that was operated by Belo Corporation (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;
3) Three boldface crosses appearing following a station's call letters (†††) indicates a station owned by Raycom Media and operated by E.W. Scripps under a shared services agreement.

DMA#	City of license/Market	Station	Channel TV / DT	Owned Since	Affiliation
11.	Detroit	WXYZ-TV	7 / 41	1986	ABC RTV
12.	Phoenix	KNXV-TV	15 / 15	1985	ABC
14.	Tampa - St. Petersburg	WFTS-TV	28 / 29	1986	ABC
18.	Cleveland - Akron	WEWS-TV **	5 / 15	1947	ABC
27.	Baltimore	WMAR-TV	2 / 38	1991	ABC
32.	Kansas City, Missouri	KSHB-TV	41 / 42	1977	NBC
	Lawrence, Kansas	KMCI-TV	38 / 41	2001	Independent
33.	Cincinnati	WCPO-TV **	9 / 22	1949	ABC
38.	West Palm Beach	WPTV-TV	5 / 12	1961	NBC
		WFLX †††	29 / 28		Fox
61.	Tulsa, Oklahoma	KJRH-TV	2 / 8	1971	NBC

McGraw-Hill stations

DMA#	City of license/Market	Station	Channel TV / DT	Affiliation
17.	Denver	KMGH-TV	7 / 7	ABC
		KZCO-LP	27	Azteca América
	Ft. Collins, Colorado	KZFC-LP	36	Azteca América
27.	Indianapolis	WRTV-TV	6 / 25	ABC
28.	San Diego	KGTV-TV	10 / 10	ABC
		KZSD-LP	41	Azteca América
93.	Colorado Springs, Colorado	KZKS-LP	23	Azteca América
125.	Bakersfield, California	KERO-TV	23 / 10	ABC
		KZKC-LP	42	Azteca América

Former Scripps-owned stations

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	RTV affiliate owned by Multicultural Television
6.	San Francisco	KCNS	38 / 39	2002–2006	RTV affiliate owned by NRJ TV (managed by Titan TV Broadcast Group)
7.	Lawrence - Boston, MA	WMFP	62 / 18	2002–2007	RTV affiliate owned by NRJ TV
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	TCT owned-and-operated (O&O)
37.	San Antonio	KENS-TV ++	5 / 39	1997	CBS affiliate owned by Belo Corporation
50.	Memphis	WMCT/WMC-TV **	5 / 5	1948–1993	NBC affiliate owned by Raycom Media

Radio stations

DMA#	Market	Station	Current Ownership
23.	Portland, Oregon	KUPL-FM-98.5	owned by Alpha Broadcasting
		KUPL-970 (now KUFO)	owned by Alpha Broadcasting
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 Hubbard Broadcasting
28.	Cleveland	WEWS-FM-102.1 (now WDOK)	owned by CBS Radio
37.	San Antonio, Texas	KENS-1160 ++ (now KRDY)	owned by Disney/ABC
41.	Memphis	WMC-970	owned by Entercom
		WMC-FM-99.7	owned by Entercom
63.	Knoxville, Tennessee	WNOX-990 (now WNML)	owned by Cumulus Media

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.^{[citation needed]}

Images

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  The Scripps Center in Downtown Cincinnati.

See also

• Edward W. Scripps
• Ellen Browning Scripps
• James E. Scripps
• Charles Scripps
• Scripps Howard Foundation
• Scripps Ranch
• Edward W. Estlow
• Richard Boehne

References

1. ^ Osborne, Kevin (2007-02-21). "Cover Story: The Light Dims". Cincinnati CityBeat (Cincinnati, Ohio: Lightborne Publishing). http://www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/article-2261-cover-story-the-light-dims.html. Retrieved 2011-08-28. "The corporate motto for Cincinnati-based media chain E.W. Scripps Co. is 'Give light and the people will find their own way,' which the lighthouse logo has come to symbolize." 
2. ^ http://escrippsnews.scrippsnet.com/articles/569-scripps-to-buy-nine-tv-stations-from-mcgraw-hill
3. ^ "Scripps ceasing Shop At Home operations" (Press release). E. W. Scripps Company. 2006-05-16. http://pressreleases.scripps.com/release/854. Retrieved 2007-10-28. 
4. ^ "Scripps sells Shop At Home TV stations" (Press release). E. W. Scripps Company. 2006-09-26. http://pressreleases.scripps.com/release/877. Retrieved 2007-10-28. 
5. ^ McGraw-Hill Sells TV Group To Scripps, TVNewsCheck, October 3, 2011.

External links

• Scripps Corporate Site
• Scripps Howard News Service