E. W. Scripps Company

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The E.W. Scripps Company <tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align:center; padding:16px 0 16px 0;">Image:Cincinnati-scripps-center.jpg Image:ScrippsLogo.jpg</td></tr>
Type	Public (NYSE: SSP)
Founded	1878 (Originally as The Cleveland Penny Press)
Headquarters	Cincinnati, Ohio, USA <tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Key people</th><td>Edward W. Scripps (1854-1926), Founder Roy W. Howard (1883-1964) Kenneth W. Lowe (President & CEO) Richard A. Boehne (Executive VP)</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Industry</th><td>Broadcast Television Cable Television News Publication Community Educational Services Interactive Media</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Revenue</th><td>$2.2 billion USD (2004)</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Website</th><td>www.scripps.com</td></tr>

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.

1 Scripps newspapers
2 Scripps-owned television stations
3 Scripps-owned cable television networks
4 National Spelling Bee
5 Images
6 See also
7 Other references
8 External links
- 8.1 Scripps-owned online properties

[edit] 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)
Naples Daily News (Naples, Florida)
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)

[edit] 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]

Current DMA#	Market	Station ... Channel Number (DT)	Year Acquired	Current Affiliation	Notes
5.	San Francisco - Oakland - San Jose	KCNS 38 (39)	1998	Shop at Home / Jewelry TV	Sale to Multicultural Television pending.
7.	Lawrence - Boston	WMFP 62 (18)	???	Shop at Home / Jewelry TV	Sale to Multicultural Television pending.
11.	Detroit - Windsor	WXYZ-TV 7 (41)	1986	ABC	Was an ABC O&O prior 1986.
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.
17.	Cleveland - Akron - Canton	WOAC 67 (47)	???	Shop at Home / Jewelry TV	Sale to Multicultural Television pending.
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.
29.	Wilson - Raleigh - Durham - Fayetteville	WRAY-TV 30 (42)	???	Shop at Home / Jewelry TV	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.
31.	Lawrence - Kansas City	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-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.

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

[edit] Scripps-owned cable television networks

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[edit] National Spelling Bee

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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.

[edit] Images

The Scripps Center in Downtown Cincinnati.	The company's corporate logo.	Scripps Networks Logo.	The Scripps National Spelling Bee, held annually and is seen on ESPN and ABC.
Alternate logo used for Internet Broadcasting, which designed the website for "NewsChannel 5" WEWS-TV.