E.W. Scripps Company

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The E.W. Scripps Company (NYSE: [SSP]) is a 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.

Scripps newspapers

• Albuquerque Tribune (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
• Daily Camera (Boulder, Colorado)
• Birmingham Post-Herald (Birmingham, Alabama)
• Colorado Daily (Boulder, Colorado)
• Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, Ohio)
• The Columbus Citizen-Journal (Columbus, Ohio)
• The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee)
• Evansville Courier & Press (Evansville, Indiana)
• Kitsap Sun (Bremerton, Washington)
• The Knoxville News-Sentinel (Knoxville, Tennessee)
• New York Herald Tribune (New York, New York)
• New York World-Telegram (New York, New York)
• The Port St. Lucie News (Port St. Lucie, Florida) - Branched off from Stuart News
• Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Colorado)
• Stuart News (Stuart, Florida) - First newspaper acquired by Scripps in 1965
• The Tribune (Scripps) (Ft. Pierce, Florida)
• Ventura County Star (Ventura, California)
• Vero Beach Press Journal (Vero Beach, Florida)
• San Angelo Standard-Times (San Angelo, Texas)
• Corpus Christi Caller Times (Corpus Christi, Texas)

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. [link]

Current DMA#	Market	Station	Year Acquired	Current Affiliation	Notes
5.	Lawrence - Boston	WMFP 62	???	SAH / JTV
6.	San Francisco - Oakland - San Jose	KCNS 38	1998	SAH / JTV
11.	Detroit	WXYZ-TV 7	1986	ABC	Acquired by Scripps in 1986, making way for ABC and Capital Cities to merge. Until 1986, WXYZ was part of the holy trinity of the original ABC owned and operated television stations alongside WABC-TV New York City, KABC-TV Los Angeles, WLS-TV Chicago and KGO-TV San Francisco.
12.	Tampa - St. Petersburg	WFTS-TV 28	1986	ABC	Was Capital Cities owned and operated until 1986. The sale allowed Capital Cities and ABC to merge.
14.	Phoenix	KNXV-TV 15	1985	ABC
16.	Cleveland - Akron - Canton	WEWS-TV 5	1947	ABC	Founded as one of the company's flagship stations.
		WOAC 67	???	SAH / JTV
24.	Baltimore	WMAR-TV 2	1991	ABC	Was owned and operated by Gillett Communications until 1991. Gillett Communications was one of the few successors of Storer Broadcasting.
28.	Bridgeport - Hartford - New Haven	WSAH 43	1999	SAH / JTV	Also serves the metropolitan area. New York City is the #1 largest market in the country.
29.	Wilson - Raleigh - Durham - Fayetteville	WRAY-TV 30	???	SAH / JTV
31.	Kansas City	KSHB-TV 41	1977	NBC	Previously held a Local Marketing Agreement with KMCI until 2001.
	Lawrence - Kansas City	KMCI 38	2001	Independent	Previously operated with KSHB-TV under a Local Marketing Agreement until Scripps acquired the station outright in 2001.
34.	Cincinnati	WCPO-TV 9	1949	ABC	Founded as one of the company's flagship stations. Named after the Cincinnati Post newspapers.
38.	West Palm Beach - Fort Pierce	WPTV-TV 5	1961	NBC
61.	Tulsa	KJRH 2	1971	NBC	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-TV in San Antonio, Texas for three months in 1997, before swapping it to Belo for a majority stake in the Food Network in December of that year.

Scripps-owned cable television networks

• HGTV
• Food Network
• Great American Country
• DIY Network
• Fine Living

National Spelling Bee

The website of the 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

• Edward W. Scripps
• Hugh Johnson
• Cincinnati, Ohio
• Scripps National Spelling Bee
• Scripps Ranch

Other references

• [Scripps ceases Shop at Home operations]

External links

• [Scripps Corporate Site] Post Listings

Scripps-owned online properties

• [Shopzilla.com]
• [Bizrate.com]
• [FoodNetwork.com]
• [HGTV.com]
• [HGTVPro.com]
• [HGTVKitchenDesign.com]
• [DIYNetwork.com]
• [FineLiving.com]
• [GACTV.com]
• [Living.com]
• [uSwitch.com]

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