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The E.W. Scripps Company is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 media conglomerate
Media conglomerate

A media conglomerate describes companies that own large numbers of companies in various mass media such as television, radio, publishing, movies, and the Internet....
 founded by Edward W. Scripps on November 2, 1878. The company is headquartered inside the Scripps Center
Scripps Center

The Scripps Center is a 35-story office building in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio.Completed in 1990 in architecture, the building is located just off the Cincinnati riverfront at 312 Walnut Street....
 in Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. The municipality is located in southwestern Ohio and is situated on the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border....
, 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
Food Network

Food Network is a television specialty channel that airs specials and recurring programs about food and cooking. Scripps Networks Interactive owns roughly two thirds of the network, and Tribune Company owns the rest....
, DIY Network
DIY Network

The DIY Network is a channel owned by Scripps Networks Interactive that focuses on do it yourself projects at home.Television stations air local versions with local hosts with segments produced by the network....
, Fine Living
Fine Living

Fine Living is an United States specialty television network owned by Scripps Networks Interactive. Founded in 2002 in Los Angeles, California, it was announced in October 2005 that its headquarters would move to Knoxville, Tennessee to be with sister station HGTV....
, Great American Country
Great American Country

Great American Country , is a Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee-based country music cable television network. The station launched December 31, 1995 and Garth Brooks' video "The Thunder Rolls" was the first video to air on GAC....
, Shopzilla
Shopzilla

Shopzilla is a price comparison service. Founded in June 1996 by Farhad Mohit and Henri Asseily as Binary Compass Enterprises, the company changed its name to BizRate.com in January 1999....
, uSwitch
USwitch

uSwitch.com is a United Kingdom-based price comparison and switching website. Started in 2000 and now owned by E. W. Scripps Company, the site allows consumers to compare prices for a range of energy, personal finance, insurance and communications services....
). The transaction was completed on July 1, 2008 forming Scripps Networks Interactive
Scripps Networks Interactive

Scripps Networks Interactive is an United States media company formed on July, 1, 2008 as a spin off of the E.W. Scripps Company. The company is headquartered inside the Scripps Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA....
.

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

Syndicates Scripps owns the Scripps Howard News Service and United Media
United Media

United Media is a large editorial column and comic strip newspaper print syndication service based in the United States, owned by The E.W. Scripps Company....
, which syndicates several popular comic strips including Peanuts, Dilbert
Dilbert

Dilbert is an United States of America comic strip written and drawn by Scott Adams. Dilbert is known for its satire office humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office featuring the engineer Dilbert as the title role....
 and Marmaduke
Marmaduke

Marmaduke is a newspaper comic strip drawn by Brad Anderson from 1954 to the present day. The strip was created by Anderson, with help from Phil Leeming and later Dorothy Leeming ....
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The E.W. Scripps Company is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 media conglomerate
Media conglomerate

A media conglomerate describes companies that own large numbers of companies in various mass media such as television, radio, publishing, movies, and the Internet....
 founded by Edward W. Scripps on November 2, 1878. The company is headquartered inside the Scripps Center
Scripps Center

The Scripps Center is a 35-story office building in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio.Completed in 1990 in architecture, the building is located just off the Cincinnati riverfront at 312 Walnut Street....
 in Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. The municipality is located in southwestern Ohio and is situated on the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border....
, 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
Food Network

Food Network is a television specialty channel that airs specials and recurring programs about food and cooking. Scripps Networks Interactive owns roughly two thirds of the network, and Tribune Company owns the rest....
, DIY Network
DIY Network

The DIY Network is a channel owned by Scripps Networks Interactive that focuses on do it yourself projects at home.Television stations air local versions with local hosts with segments produced by the network....
, Fine Living
Fine Living

Fine Living is an United States specialty television network owned by Scripps Networks Interactive. Founded in 2002 in Los Angeles, California, it was announced in October 2005 that its headquarters would move to Knoxville, Tennessee to be with sister station HGTV....
, Great American Country
Great American Country

Great American Country , is a Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee-based country music cable television network. The station launched December 31, 1995 and Garth Brooks' video "The Thunder Rolls" was the first video to air on GAC....
, Shopzilla
Shopzilla

Shopzilla is a price comparison service. Founded in June 1996 by Farhad Mohit and Henri Asseily as Binary Compass Enterprises, the company changed its name to BizRate.com in January 1999....
, uSwitch
USwitch

uSwitch.com is a United Kingdom-based price comparison and switching website. Started in 2000 and now owned by E. W. Scripps Company, the site allows consumers to compare prices for a range of energy, personal finance, insurance and communications services....
). The transaction was completed on July 1, 2008 forming Scripps Networks Interactive
Scripps Networks Interactive

Scripps Networks Interactive is an United States media company formed on July, 1, 2008 as a spin off of the E.W. Scripps Company. The company is headquartered inside the Scripps Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA....
.

Scripps newspapers

The Company owns and operates newspapers in 14 American markets. Scripps-owned newspapers:
  • Times Record News
    Times Record News

    Times Record News is a daily newspaper based in Wichita Falls, Texas, United States since 1907. It is owned by the newspaper group, E.W. Scripps Company....
     (Wichita Falls, Texas
    Wichita Falls, Texas

    Wichita Falls is a city in the state of Texas and the county seat of Wichita County, Texas, United States. Wichita Falls is the principal city of the Wichita Falls metropolitan area, which encompasses all of Archer County, Texas, Clay County, Texas and Wichita counties....
    )
  • The Abilene Reporter-News
    Abilene Reporter-News

    Abilene Reporter-News is a daily newspaper based in Abilene, Texas, United States. It is owned by the newspaper group, E.W. Scripps Company....
     (Abilene, Texas
    Abilene, Texas

    Abilene is a city in Jones County, Texas and Taylor County, Texas Counties in the central part of the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 115,930 at the United States Census, 2000....
    )
  • Daily Camera
    Daily Camera

    The Daily Camera is a daily newspaper in Boulder, Colorado. Frederick P. Johnson and Bert Bell founded the paper in 1890. It is owned by the E.W....
     and Colorado Daily
    Colorado Daily

    The Colorado Daily began as a student newspaper at the University of Colorado at Boulder, but was banned from the campus in the spring of 1970 and became a community newspaper for residents of Boulder, Colorado....
     (Boulder, Colorado
    Boulder, Colorado

    Boulder is a Colorado municipalities#Home_Rule_Municipality that is the county seat and most populous city of Boulder County, Colorado, Colorado, in the United States....
    )
  • The Commercial Appeal
    The Commercial Appeal

    The Commercial Appeal is the predominant daily newspaper of Memphis, Tennessee and its surrounding Memphis metropolitan area. It is owned by The E....
     (Memphis, Tennessee
    Memphis, Tennessee

    Memphis is a city in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County, Tennessee. Memphis rises above the Mississippi River on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff just south of the mouth of the Wolf River ....
    )
  • Evansville Courier & Press
    Evansville Courier & Press

    The Evansville Courier & Press is a local newspaper in Evansville, Indiana. The Evansville Courier & Press serves about 68,000 daily and 86,000 Sunday readers in 30 counties in Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky....
     (Evansville, Indiana
    Evansville, Indiana

    Evansville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Indiana and the largest city in Southern Indiana. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 121,582, and a metropolitan population of 342,815....
    )
  • The Gleaner
    The Gleaner

    The Gleaner may mean:*The Gleaner Group in Jamaica, publishers of the newspapers Daily Gleaner and Sunday Gleaner.*The Daily Gleaner, newspaper published in the Canadian province of New Brunswick....
     (Henderson, Kentucky
    Henderson, Kentucky

    Henderson is a city in Henderson County, Kentucky, Kentucky, United States, along the Ohio River in the western part of the state. The population was 27,373 at the 2000 United States Census....
    )
  • Kitsap Sun
    Kitsap Sun

    The Kitsap Sun is a newspaper in Bremerton, Washington, that covers general news. It serves the West Sound, covering Kitsap County, Washington, Jefferson County, Washington and Mason County, Washington counties, has a circulation of about 30,000 and reaches over 100,000 adult readers seven days a week....
     (Bremerton, Washington
    Bremerton, Washington

    Bremerton is a city in Kitsap County, Washington, Washington, United States. The population was 37,259 at the United States Census, 2000. Bremerton is home to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and the Bremerton Annex of Naval Base Kitsap....
    )
  • The Knoxville News-Sentinel (Knoxville, Tennessee
    Knoxville, Tennessee

    Founded in 1786, Knoxville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, behind Memphis, Tennessee and Nashville, Tennessee, and is the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee....
    )
  • Naples Daily News
    Naples Daily News

    The Naples Daily News is the main daily newspaper of Naples, Florida, Florida, and Collier County, Florida. Its main competitor in this region is the Fort Myers-based Fort Myers News-Press, out of neighboring Lee County, Florida to the north....
     (Naples, Florida
    Naples, Florida

    File:Sugden Community Theatre.jpgFile:Naples City Dock1.jpgFile:Naples Pier2.jpgFile:Naples Pier3.jpgNaples is a city in Collier County, Florida, Florida, United States....
    )
  • Stuart News (Stuart, Florida
    Stuart, Florida

    This article is only about the 'City of Stuart' in Martin County, Florida. For other nearby places , see: Martin County, Florida.'Stuart' is a city in Martin County, Florida, Florida, on Florida's Treasure Coast....
    ) - First currently active newspaper acquired by Scripps in 1965
  • Ventura County Star (Ventura, California
    Ventura, California

    San Buenaventura, commonly referred to as Ventura, is the county seat of Ventura County, California, United States, incorporated in 1866. Ventura has a population of 106,744....
    )
  • Vero Beach Press Journal (Vero Beach, Florida
    Vero Beach, Florida

    Vero Beach is a city in Indian River County, Florida, Florida, United States. According to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2006 estimates, the city had a population of 16,939....
    )
  • San Angelo Standard-Times
    San Angelo Standard-Times

    San Angelo Standard-Times is a daily newspaper based in San Angelo, Texas, Texas, United States since 1884. It is owned by the newspaper group, E.W....
     (San Angelo, Texas
    San Angelo, Texas

    San Angelo is a city in and the county seat of Tom Green County, Texas, Texas, United States, in West-Central Texas. As of the United States Census, 2000, the city had a total population of 88,439....
    )
  • Corpus Christi Caller Times (Corpus Christi, Texas
    Corpus Christi, Texas

    Corpus Christi is a coastal city in the South Texas region of the U.S. state of Texas. The county seat of Nueces County, Texas, it also extends into Aransas County, Texas, Kleberg County, Texas, and San Patricio County, Texas counties....
    )
  • The Anderson Independent-Mail
    The Anderson Independent-Mail

    The Anderson Independent-Mail, known as independent mail is the local newspaper for Anderson County in the state of South Carolina, published by the Independent Publishing Co., a division of the E....
     (Anderson, South Carolina
    Anderson, South Carolina

    Anderson is a city in and the county seat of Anderson County, South Carolina, South Carolina, United States. The population was 25,514 at the United States Census, 2000, and the city was the center of an urbanized area of 70,530....
    )


Closed newspapers


  • Houston Press
    Houston Press

    The Houston Press is an alternative weekly newspaper published in Houston, Texas, Texas, United States.The paper, a part of the Village Voice Media group , is supported entirely by advertising revenue and is free to readers....
     (Houston, Texas
    Houston, Texas

    Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States of America and the largest city within the state of Texas. As of the 2007 U.S. Census estimate, the city has a population of 2.2 million within an area of 600 square miles ....
    ) (closed 1964)
  • New York World-Telegram
    New York World-Telegram

    The New York World-Telegram, later known as the New York World-Telegram and Sun, was a New York City newspaper from 1931 to 1966....
     (New York City
    New York City

    The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
    ) (closed 1966)
  • The Washington Daily News
    The Washington Daily News

    Washington Daily News was a tabloid style newspaper serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area....
     (Washington, DC) (sold 1972)
  • Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Texas
    Fort Worth, Texas

    Fort Worth is the List of United States cities by population in the United States and the fifth-largest city within the state of Texas. Situated in and a cultural gateway into the Western United States, the city covers nearly in Tarrant County, Texas and Denton County, Texas counties, serving as the county seat for Tarrant County....
    ) (closed 1975)
  • Cleveland Press
    Cleveland Press

    The Cleveland Press was a daily American newspaper that was published in Cleveland, Ohio from November 2, 1878 until June 17, 1982. From 1928 to 1966, the paper's editor was Louis Seltzer, who helped develop it into one of the most respected papers in the United States....
     (Cleveland, Ohio
    Cleveland, Ohio

    Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the most populous county in the state. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border....
    ) (closed 1982)
  • Memphis Press-Scimitar (Memphis, Tennessee
    Memphis, Tennessee

    Memphis is a city in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County, Tennessee. Memphis rises above the Mississippi River on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff just south of the mouth of the Wolf River ....
    ) (closed 1983)
  • Columbus Citizen-Journal (Columbus, Ohio
    Columbus, Ohio

    Columbus is the Capital , the largest, and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio. Located near the Geographic centers of the United States, Columbus is the county seat of Franklin County, Ohio, although parts of the city also extend into Delaware County, Ohio and Fairfield County, Ohio counties....
    ) (closed 1985)
  • Pittsburgh Press
    Pittsburgh Press

    The Pittsburgh Press, now defunct, was a major daily newspaper in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was one of many competing city newspapers published prior to the First World War including The Hearst Corporation owned Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, the Pittsburgh Dispatch, and the Block Communications owned Pittsburgh Post-Gazette....
     (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    Pittsburgh is the second largest city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania with a population of 312,819. The population of the seven-county metropolitan area is 2,462,571....
    ) (closed 1992)
  • Thousand Oaks News Chronicle (Thousand Oaks, California
    Thousand Oaks, California

    Thousand Oaks, commonly referred to as "T.O." by residents, is a city in southeastern Ventura County, California, California, in the United States....
    ) (closed 1995)
  • Birmingham Post-Herald
    Birmingham Post-Herald

    The Birmingham Post-Herald was a daily newspaper in Birmingham, Alabama with roots dating back to 1850, before the founding of Birmingham. The final edition was published on September 23, 2005....
     (Birmingham, Alabama
    Birmingham, Alabama

    Birmingham is the largest city in the United States state of Alabama and is the county seat of Jefferson County, Alabama. It also includes part of Shelby County, Alabama....
    ) (closed 2005)
  • dirt (Boulder, Colorado
    Boulder, Colorado

    Boulder is a Colorado municipalities#Home_Rule_Municipality that is the county seat and most populous city of Boulder County, Colorado, Colorado, in the United States....
    ) (closed 2006)
  • Cincinnati Post
    The Cincinnati Post

    The Cincinnati Post is a discontinued afternoon daily newspaper that was published in Cincinnati, Ohio. Distributed in Northern Kentucky as The Kentucky Post, it was owned by the E....
     (Cincinnati, Ohio
    Cincinnati, Ohio

    Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. The municipality is located in southwestern Ohio and is situated on the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border....
    ) (closed 2007)
  • The Albuquerque Tribune (Albuquerque, New Mexico
    Albuquerque, New Mexico

    Albuquerque is the largest List of cities in the United States in the US state of New Mexico, United States. It is the county seat of Bernalillo County, New Mexico and is situated in the central part of the state, straddling the Rio Grande....
    ) (closed 2008)
  • Rocky Mountain News
    Rocky Mountain News

    The Rocky Mountain News is a defunct weekday and Saturday morning tabloid-format newspaper published in Denver, Colorado, United States. It was owned by the E....
     (Denver, Colorado
    Denver, Colorado

    Denver is the Capital and the Colorado municipalities of the state of Colorado, in the United States. Denver is a consolidated city-county located in the South Platte River on the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains....
    ) (closed 2009) - Purchased in 1926


Syndicates

Scripps owns the Scripps Howard News Service and United Media
United Media

United Media is a large editorial column and comic strip newspaper print syndication service based in the United States, owned by The E.W. Scripps Company....
, which syndicates several popular comic strips including Peanuts, Dilbert
Dilbert

Dilbert is an United States of America comic strip written and drawn by Scott Adams. Dilbert is known for its satire office humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office featuring the engineer Dilbert as the title role....
 and Marmaduke
Marmaduke

Marmaduke is a newspaper comic strip drawn by Brad Anderson from 1954 to the present day. The strip was created by Anderson, with help from Phil Leeming and later Dorothy Leeming ....
.

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. Jewelry Television
Jewelry Television

Jewelry Television is an United States television network, similar to the Home Shopping Network. It was formerly called "America's Collectibles Network" ....
 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
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
-based Multicultural Television for $170 million.

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#
Media market

A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area , Television Market Area or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same television station and radio broadcasting offerings, and may also include other types of media including newspapers and Internet content....
 City of license
City of license

A city of license or community of license, in United States and Canada broadcasting, is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator....
/Market		 Station Channel
TV
Analog television

Analog television encodes television picture and sound information and transmits it as an analog signal: one in which the message conveyed by the broadcast Signal is a function of deliberate variations in the amplitude and/or frequency of the signal....
 / DT
Digital terrestrial television

Digital Terrestrial Television is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and sound using aerial broadcasts to a conventional Antenna instead of a satellite dish or cable connection....
 Owned Since Affiliation
11. Detroit
Detroit, Michigan

Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Wayne County, Michigan. Detroit is a major port city on the Detroit River, in the Midwestern United States of the United States....
 WXYZ-TV
WXYZ-TV

WXYZ-TV, channel 7, is the American Broadcasting Company affiliated television station in Detroit, Michigan. It is owned by The E.W. Scripps Company and is the media company's largest TV station....
 7 / 41 1986 ABC
12. Phoenix
Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix is the capital and largest city in the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the fifth most populous city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,552,259 residents, and is the anchor of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area with 4,179,427 residents....
 KNXV-TV
KNXV-TV

KNXV-TV, channel 15, is the American Broadcasting Company television affiliate in Phoenix, Arizona. Its transmitter is located on South Mountains in Phoenix....
 15 / 56 1985 ABC
13. Tampa
Tampa, Florida

Tampa is a United States city in Hillsborough County, Florida, on the west coast of the state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County....
 - St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg, Florida

St. Petersburg is a city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States. The city is known as a vacation destination for North American and European vacationers, as well as a politically important swing state in U.S....
 WFTS-TV
WFTS-TV

WFTS is the American Broadcasting Company affiliate for the Tampa, Florida-St. Petersburg, Florida market, owned by The E.W. Scripps Company. It broadcasts its analog signal on UHF channel 28 and its digital signal on UHF channel 29....
 28 / 29 1986 ABC
17. Cleveland
Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the most populous county in the state. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border....
 - Akron
Akron, Ohio

Akron is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Summit County, Ohio. In 2007, its population was estimated to be 207,934. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the Cuyahoga River between Cleveland, Ohio to the north and Canton, Ohio to the south, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border....
 WEWS ** 5 / 15 1947 ABC
26. Baltimore
Baltimore, Maryland

Baltimore is an independent city and the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland in the United States. Baltimore is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay....
 WMAR-TV
WMAR-TV

WMAR-TV, channel 2, is the American Broadcasting Company affiliate in Baltimore, Maryland, owned by the broadcasting division of the E.W. Scripps Company....
 2 / 52 1991 ABC
31. Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson County, Missouri, Clay County, Missouri, Cass County, Missouri, and Platte County, Missouri counties....
 KSHB-TV
KSHB-TV

'KSHB-TV', channel 41 , is the NBC network affiliate serving the entire Kansas City, Missouri metropolitan area. It is owned by the E.W. Scripps Company, alongside independent station KMCI as the company's only existing duopoly....
 41 / 42 1977 NBC
Lawrence, Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Lawrence is the 6th largest city in the U.S. State of Kansas and the county seat of Douglas County, Kansas. Located in northeastern Kansas, Lawrence is the anchor city of the Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Douglas County....
 KMCI
KMCI

KMCI channel 38 , is an independent television station serving the Kansas City television market. It is licensed to Lawrence, Kansas, and is owned by the E.W....
 38 / 36 2001 Independent
34. Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. The municipality is located in southwestern Ohio and is situated on the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border....
 WCPO-TV
WCPO-TV

WCPO-TV is a broadcast television station in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, affiliated with the American Broadcasting Company network. It broadcasts on analog channel 9 and digital channel 10....
 **		 9 / 10 1949 ABC
38. West Palm Beach
West Palm Beach, Florida

West Palm Beach, also known as West Palm, is the most populous city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The city is also the oldest incorporated municipality in South Florida....
 WPTV-TV 5 / 55 1961 NBC
61. Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and List of United States cities by population in the United States. With an estimated population of 384,037 in 2007, it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Statistical Area, a region of 905,755 residents projected to reach one million between 2010 and 2012....
 KJRH-TV 2 / 56 1971 NBC


Former Scripps-owned stations


Television stations

DMA#
Media market

A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area , Television Market Area or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same television station and radio broadcasting offerings, and may also include other types of media including newspapers and Internet content....
 City of license
City of license

A city of license or community of license, in United States and Canada broadcasting, is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator....
/Market		 Station Channel
TV
Analog television

Analog television encodes television picture and sound information and transmits it as an analog signal: one in which the message conveyed by the broadcast Signal is a function of deliberate variations in the amplitude and/or frequency of the signal....
 / DT
Digital terrestrial television

Digital Terrestrial Television is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and sound using aerial broadcasts to a conventional Antenna instead of a satellite dish or cable connection....
 Years owned Affiliation
1. Bridgeport, CT
Bridgeport, Connecticut

Bridgeport is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. Located in and the former county seat of Fairfield County, Connecticut, the city had an estimated population of 137,912 in 2006 and is the core of the Greater Bridgeport area....
 - New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 WSAH-TV 43 / 42 2002-2007 Independent owned by Multicultural Television
6. San Francisco
San Francisco, California

The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183....
 KCNS
KCNS

KCNS is a digital television station in San Francisco, California, in the United States, owned by Multicultural Broadcasting. It carries E/I programming on Monday mornings, Chinese language programming in the evenings, and infomercials the rest of the time....
 38 / 39 2002-2006 Independent owned by Multicultural Television
7. Lawrence
Lawrence, Massachusetts

Lawrence is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States on the Merrimack River. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 72,043....
 - Boston, MA		 WMFP
WMFP

WMFP is a television station in the Boston, Massachusetts market. The station is licenced to Lawrence, Massachusetts, and is owned by Multicultural Television....
 62 / 18 2002-2007 Independent owned by Multicultural Television
17. Canton
Canton, Ohio

Canton is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Stark County, Ohio. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio and is situated on the Nimishillen Creek, approximately 24 miles south of Akron, Ohio and 60 miles south of Cleveland, Ohio....
 - Cleveland, OH
Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the most populous county in the state. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border....
 WOAC
WOAC

WOAC is a full-power television station licensed to Canton, Ohio and serves the Akron-Canton area as part of Cleveland, Ohio-Akron, Ohio-Canton, Ohio market....
 67 / 47 2002-2006 Independent owned by Multicultural Television
27. Wilson
Wilson, North Carolina

is a city and the county seat of Wilson County, North Carolina in the Coastal Plain region of the U.S. state of North Carolina. The 17th largest city in the state, Wilson had a population of 47,380 at the United States Census, 2007....
 - Raleigh
Raleigh, North Carolina

Raleigh is the Capital of the state of North Carolina and the List of North Carolina county seats of Wake County, North Carolina. Raleigh is known as the ?City of Oaks? for its many oaks....
 - Durham, N.C.
Durham, North Carolina

Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the county seat of Durham County, North Carolina and also extends into Wake County, North Carolina county....
 WRAY-TV
WRAY-TV

WRAY-TV is a full-power television station licensed to Wilson, North Carolina and serves the entire Raleigh, North Carolina-Durham, North Carolina-Fayetteville, North Carolina metropolitan area....
 30 / 42 2002-2006 Independent owned by Multicultural Television
37. San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas

San Antonio is the second-largest city in the state of Texas and the List of United States cities by population. Located in , the city is a cultural and geographical gateway into the ....
 KENS-TV
KENS-TV

KENS-TV is the CBS television affiliate in San Antonio, Texas owned and operated by The Belo Corporation. KENS also manages KCWX under a local marketing agreement ....
 ++		 5 / 55 1997 CBS
CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
 affiliate owned by Belo Corporation
Belo

Belo Corp. is a Dallas, Texas-based media company that owns 20 television stations and two regional cable television news channels. The company was previously known as A.H....
48. Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County, Tennessee. Memphis rises above the Mississippi River on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff just south of the mouth of the Wolf River ....
 WMCT/WMC-TV
WMC-TV

WMC-TV is the NBC affiliate for the Memphis, Tennessee metropolitan area. The station serves roughly the western third of Tennessee, northwestern Mississippi, northeastern Arkansas and the southeastern corner of Missouri over the air on satellite and on various cable systems....
 **		 5 / 52 1948-1993 NBC affiliate owned by Raycom Media
Raycom Media

Raycom Media is a broadcasting company based in Montgomery, Alabama....


Radio stations

DMA# Market Station Current Ownership
23. Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon

Portland is a city located in the Northwestern United States United States, near the confluence of the Willamette River and Columbia River rivers in the state of Oregon....
 KUPL-FM
KUPL

KUPL, is a commercial broadcast radio station based in Portland, Oregon specializing in country music with studios at KOIN Center in Portland. KUPL is owned by CBS Radio in New York City, New York and radio broadcasting at 98.7 Hertz FM....
-98.5		 owned by CBS Radio
CBS Radio

CBS Radio Inc., formerly known as Infinity Broadcasting Corporation, is one of the largest owners and operators of radio stations in the United States, fourth behind main rival Clear Channel Communications , Cumulus Media and Citadel Broadcasting....
KUPL-970
(now KCMD
KCMD

KCMD is a radio station located in Downtown Portland, Oregon and is a owned by CBS Radio. In 2005 after the flip of the city's Hot Talk station, MAX 910, to oldies, CBS Radio saw an opportinity to re-tool KCMD, to appeal to a larger audience....
)		 owned by CBS Radio
24. Baltimore
Baltimore, Maryland

Baltimore is an independent city and the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland in the United States. Baltimore is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay....
 WBSB-FM-104.3
(now WCHH)		 owned by Clear Channel Communications
Clear Channel Communications

Clear Channel Communications is a Mass media list of conglomerates company based in the United States. Clear Channel, founded in 1972 by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs, wields considerable influence in radio broadcasting, concert promotion and hosting, and fixed advertising in the United States through its subsidiaries....
32. Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. The municipality is located in southwestern Ohio and is situated on the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border....
 WCPO-1230
(now WDBZ
WDBZ

WDBZ is an News/Talk and Urban Gospel hybrid formatted radio station serving Cincinnati broadcasting on 1230 AM. WDBZ is branded as "Your Community & Inspiration Station." The station plays Gospel music except for weekdays between 10:00 am and 2:00 pm, during which time The Lincoln Ware Show talk show airs....
)		 owned by Radio One
WUBE-FM
WUBE-FM

WUBE-FM is a radio station broadcasting a Country music format. Licensed to Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, the station serves the Cincinnati area. The station is currently owned by Bonneville Holding Company....
-105.1		 owned by Bonneville International
Bonneville International

Bonneville International Corporation, managed by Deseret Management Corporation, is a broadcasting company wholly owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ....
28. Cleveland
Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the most populous county in the state. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border....
 WEWS-FM-102.9
(now WDOK
WDOK

WDOK is a commercial Frequency modulation radio station in Cleveland, Ohio broadcasting at 102.1 Megahertz with an adult contemporary format. Studios are located at One Radio Lane along with CBS Radio sister station WQAL, and its transmitter is located in Parma, Ohio on a tower that it shares with WQHS-TV channel 61....
)		 owned by CBS Radio
37. San Antonio, Texas
San Antonio, Texas

San Antonio is the second-largest city in the state of Texas and the List of United States cities by population. Located in , the city is a cultural and geographical gateway into the ....
 KENS-1160 ++
(now KRDY
KRDY

KRDY is a radio station broadcasting a Children's Radio format.Licensed to San Antonio, Texas, USA, the station serves the San Antonio area. The station is currently owned by the Walt Disney Company and features programing from Radio Disney....
)		 owned by Disney
The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is the largest media and entertainment corporation in the world. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O....
/ABC Radio
ABC Radio

ABC Radio Networks, known as ABC Radio for short, is an radio in the United States radio network. The network syndicates some of the most famous personalities in American radio, like Sean Hannity and Don Imus....
41. Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County, Tennessee. Memphis rises above the Mississippi River on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff just south of the mouth of the Wolf River ....
 WMC
WMC (AM)

WMC is a radio station in the Memphis, Tennessee market, broadcasting at 790 AM radio.It is one of the city's oldest radio stations and presently programs a Classic Country format....
-970		 owned by Entercom
WMC-FM
WMC-FM

WMC-FM is a "Hot AC" radio station serving the market of Memphis, Tennessee. The station is notable for being an FM "superpower," with a transmitter that greatly exceeds current Federal Communications Commission restrictions....
-99.7		 owned by Entercom
63. Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee

Founded in 1786, Knoxville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, behind Memphis, Tennessee and Nashville, Tennessee, and is the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee....
 WNOX
WNOX

WNOX is a radio station in the Knoxville, Tennessee area. It broadcasts a All-news radio/Talk radio format and is currently being operated by Citadel Broadcasting under a time brokerage agreement from the station's ownership, Oak Ridge FM, Inc....
-990
(now WNML
WNML

WNML, WNML-FM, and WNRX are sports radio stations serving the Knoxville, Tennessee area. They broadcast on AM 990 and 2 FM frequencies, 99.1 & 99.3 ....
)		 owned by Citadel Broadcasting
Citadel Broadcasting

Citadel Broadcasting Corporation is a Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada-based broadcast holding company. Investment house Forstmann Little & Company owns 27% of Citadel and is its largest shareholder....


Former Assets

  • HGTV
  • DIY Network
    DIY Network

    The DIY Network is a channel owned by Scripps Networks Interactive that focuses on do it yourself projects at home.Television stations air local versions with local hosts with segments produced by the network....
  • Food Network
    Food Network

    Food Network is a television specialty channel that airs specials and recurring programs about food and cooking. Scripps Networks Interactive owns roughly two thirds of the network, and Tribune Company owns the rest....
  • Fine Living
    Fine Living

    Fine Living is an United States specialty television network owned by Scripps Networks Interactive. Founded in 2002 in Los Angeles, California, it was announced in October 2005 that its headquarters would move to Knoxville, Tennessee to be with sister station HGTV....
  • Great American Country
    Great American Country

    Great American Country , is a Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee-based country music cable television network. The station launched December 31, 1995 and Garth Brooks' video "The Thunder Rolls" was the first video to air on GAC....
  • Shopzilla
    Shopzilla

    Shopzilla is a price comparison service. Founded in June 1996 by Farhad Mohit and Henri Asseily as Binary Compass Enterprises, the company changed its name to BizRate.com in January 1999....
  • uSwitch
    USwitch

    uSwitch.com is a United Kingdom-based price comparison and switching website. Started in 2000 and now owned by E. W. Scripps Company, the site allows consumers to compare prices for a range of energy, personal finance, insurance and communications services....


National Spelling Bee


Scripps also operates the national (US) spelling bee
Spelling bee

A spelling bee is a competition where contestants, usually children, are asked to spelling English language words. The concept is thought to have originated in the United States, and is usually perceived to be a solely English language practice....
. The final competition is in Washington, DC and broadcast on ESPN
ESPN

ESPN is a United States cable television Television network dedicated to Broadcasting of sports events and producing sports-related programming 24 hours a day....
 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
  • Charles Scripps
    Charles Scripps

    Charles E. Scripps was board of directors of the E. W. Scripps Company, a media conglomerate founded by his grandfather, Edward W. Scripps. Under his leadership the company was transformed from a family-owned newspaper publisher into a major publicly traded media company with major cable television operations....
  • Scripps Howard Foundation
    Scripps Howard Foundation

    The Scripps Howard Foundation is the corporate foundation of the E. W. Scripps Company, an American media conglomerate which owns newspapers, television stations, cable television networks, and other media outlets....
  • Scripps Ranch


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