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'The E.W. Scripps Company' () 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.

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Scripps newspapers

Closed newspapers

Scripps-owned television stations

Scripps-owned cable television networks

Scripps-owned Interactive Media

National Spelling Bee

Images

See also

Other references

External links

Scripps newspapers

The E.W. Scripps Company is sometimes confused with the far less successful Scripps League of Newspapers. On January 9, 2007, Scripps management said it was "talking about options" for its newspaper division, which has now become a financial drag for the company. On January 30, 2007, the president and CEO clarified the company's position when he said in a conference call with financial analysts: "As for the future of newspapers at Scripps, let me be as clear as I can be. There is no plan to spin off, separate or sell the Scripps newspaper division."
Scripps also owns United Media, which syndicates several popular comic strips including ''Peanuts'', ''Dilbert'' and ''Marmaduke''.

★ ''Albuquerque Tribune'' (Albuquerque, New Mexico)

★ ''The Abilene Reporter-News'' (Abilene, Texas)

★ ''Daily Camera'' (Boulder, Colorado)

★ ''Daily News'' (San Francisco, California)

★ ''Colorado Daily'' (Boulder, Colorado)

★ ''Cincinnati Post'' (Cincinnati, Ohio) - closing 2007

★ ''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)

★ ''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)

Closed newspapers

★ ''Birmingham Post-Herald'' (Birmingham, Alabama) (closed 2005)

★ ''Cleveland Press'' (Cleveland, Ohio) (closed 1982)

★ ''Fort Worth Press'' (Fort Worth, Texas) (closed 1975)

★ ''Houston Press'' (Houston, Texas) (closed 1964)

★ ''Pittsburgh Press'' (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) (closed 1992)

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. [2] 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. [3] Multicultural closed on KCNS (San Francisco), WOAC (Cleveland) and WRAY (Raleigh) on December 20 2006, and WMFP (Boston) and WSAH (Bridgeport) on April 24, 2007.

'Current DMA#'	'Market'	'Station ... Channel Number (DT)'	'Year Acquired'	'Current Affiliation'	'Notes'
11.	Detroit - Windsor	'WXYZ-TV 7 (41)'	1986	ABC	Was an ABC O&O prior 1986.
12.	Phoenix	'KNXV-TV 15 (56)'	1985	ABC
13.	Tampa - St. Petersburg	'WFTS-TV 28 (29)'	1986	ABC	Was owned by Capital Cities prior to 1986.
17.	Cleveland - Akron - Canton	'WEWS-TV 5 (15)'	1947	ABC	Founded as the company's flagship station. Its call letters are E. W. Scripps' initals.
24.	Baltimore	'WMAR-TV 2 (52)'	1991	ABC	Was owned by Gillett Communications prior to 1991.
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
60.	Tulsa	'KJRH 2 (56)'	1971	NBC / NBC WX Plus	Named after former Scripps chairman Jack R. Howard.

Formerly Owned Stations:

'Current DMA#'	'Market'	'Station ... Channel Number (DT)'	'Years owned'	'Current Affiliation'	'Notes'
6.	San Francisco	'KCNS 38'	2002-2006	Shop At Home	Sold to Multicultural Television
7.	Boston	'WMFP 62'	2002-2006	Shop At Home	Sold to Multicultural Television
17.	Cleveland, Ohio	'WOAC 67'	2002-2006	Shop At Home	Sold to Multicultural Television
28.	Raleigh	'WRAY 30'	2002-2006	Shop At Home	Sold to Multicultural Television
29.	Hartford-New Haven, Connecticut	'WSAH 43'	2002-2006	Shop At Home	Sold to Multicultural Television
37.	San Antonio	'KENS 5'	1997	CBS	Owned by Belo
47.	Memphis, Tennessee	'WMC-TV 5'	1948-93	NBC	Owned By Raycom Media

Radio Stations:

'Current DMA#'	'Market'	'Station ... Frequency'	'Current Format'	'Notes'
23.	Portland, Oregon	'KUPL 98.5 FM'	Country	Owned by CBS Radio
		'KUPL (now KCMD) 970 AM'	Talk Radio	Owned by CBS Radio
32.	Cincinnati	'WCPO (now WDBZ 1230 AM'	Talk Radio	Owned by Radio One
		'WUBE 105.1 FM'	Country	Owned by Bonneville
37.	San Antonio	'KENS (now KRDY) 1160 AM'	Radio Disney	Owned by Disney
41.	Memphis	'WMC 970 AM'	Country	Owned by Entercom
		'WMC-FM 99.7 FM'	Hot AC	Owned by Entercom
63.	Knoxville, Tennessee	'WNOX (now WNML) 990 AM'	Sports	Owned by Citadel

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

★ HGTV

★ Food Network

★ Great American Country

★ DIY Network

★ Fine Living

Scripps-owned Interactive Media

★ Shopzilla

★ uSwitch

★ UpMyStreet

National Spelling Bee

Main articles: 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

★ Charles Scripps

★ Cincinnati, Ohio

★ Scripps Howard Foundation

★ Scripps National Spelling Bee

★ Scripps Ranch

Other references

★ Scripps ceases Shop at Home operations

External links

★ Scripps Corporate Site