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E. W. Scripps Company

October 20, 2023

Not to be confused with other organizations named Scripps.

The E. W. Scripps Company is an American broadcasting company founded in 1878 as a chain of daily newspapers by Edward Willis "E. W." Scripps and his sister, Ellen Browning Scripps. It was also formerly a media conglomerate. The company is headquartered at the Scripps Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.[2] Its corporate motto is "Give light and the people will find their own way", which is symbolized by the media empire's longtime lighthouse logo.[3]

The E. W. Scripps Company
Scripps headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio
TypePublic
  • Nasdaq: SSP (Series A) (1988-1991; 2018-present)
  • NYSE: SSP (1991-2018)
  • S&P 600 component
IndustryBroadcast television
FoundedNovember 2, 1878; 144 years ago (November 2, 1878) (as the Penny Press) in Cleveland, Ohio
FounderEdward W. Scripps
HeadquartersScripps Center,
Cincinnati, Ohio
,
U.S.
Key people
Revenue US$2.28 billion (2021)
US$401 million (2021)
US$123 million (2021)
Total assets US$6.66 billion (2021)
Total equity US$1.97 billion (2021)
Number of employees
c. 5,600 (December 2021)
Divisions
Websitewww.scripps.com
Footnotes / references
[1]

In terms of market reach, Scripps is the second largest operator of ABC affiliates, behind the Sinclair Broadcast Group, and ahead of Hearst Television and Tegna. Scripps also owns a number of free-to-air multi-genre digital subchannel multicast networks through its Scripps Networks division, including the Ion Television network and Scripps News.

History Edit

19th century Edit

The E. W. Scripps Company was a newspaper company founded on November 2, 1878, when Edward Willis Scripps published the first issue of the Cleveland Penny Press.[4]

In 1894, Scripps and his half-brother, George H. Scripps, organized their various papers into the first modern newspaper chain. In July 1895, it was named the Scripps-McRae League to reflect the leadership of Cincinnati Post general manager Milton A. McRae, a longtime partner.[5][6] The company expanded during the decade to publish newspapers in California, Denver, Chicago, Dallas and Nashville and elsewhere.[4]

20th century Edit

In early November 1922, the Scripps-McRae League was renamed Scripps-Howard Newspapers to recognize company executive Roy W. Howard.[7] On November 23, the E. W. Scripps Company was incorporated and placed in trust for Scripps' children and grandchildren.[8] The company's shares were divided into two types: Class A Common Shares, which were traded on the New York Stock Exchange, and common voting shares, which were not publicly traded and elected a majority of the company's directors. (A number of media companies, including the New York Times Company and the Washington Post organization, are governed by this system so that the descendants of the company's founders can keep control of the company.[9]) E. W. Scripps died in 1926.

On June 2, 1902, Scripps founded the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), based in Cleveland, Ohio, as a news report service for different Scripps-owned newspapers. It started selling content to non-Scripps owned newspapers in 1907, and by 1909, it became a more general syndicate, offering comics, pictures and features as well. It moved from Cleveland to Chicago in 1915, with an office in San Francisco. NEA rapidly grew and delivered content to 400 newspapers in 1920 and about 700 in 1930.[10] Today, it is the oldest syndicate still in operation.

Scripps created the United Press news agency in 1907 by uniting three smaller syndicates and controlled it until a 1958 merger with William Randolph Hearst's smaller competing agency, INS, to form United Press International. With the Hearst Corporation as a minority partner, UPI continued under Scripps management until it was sold off in 1982.[11][12][13][14] A separate wire service, the Scripps Howard News Service, operated for 96 years from 1917 to 2013.[15]

United Feature Syndicate was formed in 1919 as a division of UP to distribute editorial columns, features and comic strips, and became a dominant player in the syndication market in the fall of 1931 thanks to Scripps' acquisition of the New York World, which controlled the Pulitzer company's syndication arms, Press Publishing Co. and World Feature Service.[16][17][18][15] In May 1978, Scripps merged United Feature Syndicate and Newspaper Enterprise Association to form United Media Enterprises.[19][20]

The company expanded its newspaper holdings throughout the pre-World War II period, acquiring many titles and merging them, including the Rocky Mountain News and Knoxville News-Sentinel. A trickle of closures and sales occurred over the next few decades. In 1966, Scripps' New York World-Telegram was merged into the New York World Journal Tribune, which closed in 1967. Papers in Indianapolis, Washington, Houston and Fort Worth were closed in the 1960s and 1970s, and the former flagship Cleveland Press was sold in 1980. Scripps also closed properties in Memphis, Columbus, Thousand Oaks and El Paso throughout the 1980s and 1990s, while selling the Pittsburgh Press in 1992.

In 1985, the company went into home video foray with its acquisition of Kartes Video Communications in an effort to expand the marketplace.[21] Two years later, Scripps Howard sold off Kartes Video Communications back to its founders, after an aborted deal where Scripps-Howard's acquisition of Hanes failed.[22]

In 1997, Scripps bought daily newspapers in the Texas cities of Abilene, Wichita Falls, San Angelo and Plano, plus the paper in Anderson, South Carolina, from Harte-Hanks Communications, along with 25 non-daily newspapers and San Antonio-based KENS-TV and KENS-AM.[23] The purchase price was to be between $605 and $775 million, depending on a federal ruling.[24] (Scripps eventually spun off all of its newspapers into Journal Media Group in 2015.)

Scripps made its first foray into broadcasting in 1935, forming a company called Continental Radio and buying radio stations WCPO in Cincinnati and WNOX in Knoxville. After the war, In 1947, Scripps opened its first television station, Cleveland-based WEWS-TV, with Memphis-based WMC-TV and Cincinnati-based WCPO-TV in subsequent years.[4] It now owns dozens of TV and radio stations. In the 1980s and 1990s, Scripps became a cable television provider and also developed programming for cable, notably SportSouth (currently Bally Sports South) in 1990 (in a joint venture with Turner Broadcasting and TCI), Food Network in 1993 and HGTV in 1994. (Scripps spun off its cable properties into Scripps Network Interactive in 2008.)

The company went public with an IPO in 1988 and was traded on the NASDAQ.[4] It owned 20 daily newspapers and 9 television stations at the time, with and cable systems in 10 states. The company completed a new downtown Cincinnati headquarters, the 35-story high-rise Scripps Center, in 1990.[25] In 1991, Scripps transferred its shares to the New York Stock Exchange.

21st century Edit

In October 2007, Scripps 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, DIY Network, Cooking Channel (formerly known as Fine Living), Travel Channel and Great American Country). The transaction was completed on July 1, 2008.

After a test launch at WFTS-TV in 2009, Scripps television stations launched YouTube channels in 2010. These are similar to YouTube channels operated by Hearst Television and LIN Television.

On February 24, 2011, United Media struck a distribution deal with Universal Uclick (now known as Andrews McMeel Syndication) for syndication of the company's 150 comic strip and news features, which became effective on June 1 of that year.[26][27] At that point, United Media, and by extension the Scripps Company, exited the syndication business.[28]

On September 12, 2011, Scripps partnered with Cox Media Group and Raycom Media to launch Right This Minute, a viral video program. On the same day, Scripps launched The List, a news magazine. Both were part of an approach for "homegrown" programming—programming created by Scripps. Raycom also launched America Now on the same day. The creator of RTM and The List applied this "homegrown" programming approach to Tegna in 2015, with the launch of T.D. Jakes. Scripps launched Let's Ask America in 2013 (now cancelled), partnering with Telepictures to do so, and Pickler and Ben in 2017.

On October 3, 2011, Scripps announced it was purchasing the television arm of McGraw-Hill for $212 million.[29] This purchase nearly doubled the number of Scripps stations to 19 with a combined reach of 13% of U.S. households. Upon the 2012 death of E. W. Scripps' grandson, Robert Scripps, the Edward W. Scripps Trust was dissolved and its stock divided among the surviving trustees.[9]

In December 2013, Scripps purchased Newsy for $35 Million.[30]

On July 30, 2014, Scripps and Journal Communications announced that the two companies would merge and spin-off their newspaper assets.[31] The deal created a broadcast group under the E. W. Scripps Company name and retaining the Cincinnati headquarters, and a newspaper company based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, under the Journal Media Group name.[32] The FCC approved the deal on December 12, 2014, and it was approved by shareholders on March 11, 2015.[33] The merger and spinoff were completed on April 1, 2015.[34][35] In turn, Journal Media Group was acquired by Gannett Company on April 8, 2016. Gannett had also shed their television and broadcast operations into a spin-off, Tegna, months after the Scripps-Journal merger.

In April 2016, Demand Media announced the sale of the humor/listicle website Cracked.com to E. W. Scripps.[36] In June, it acquired podcast service Stitcher from Deezer.[37]

On August 1, 2017, Scripps announced the purchase of Katz Broadcasting and its three networks plus Bounce which Katz operates, for $292 million, acquiring the other 95% of the company.[38] The purchase was completed on October 2, 2017.[39] On May 22, 2018, Scripps announced that it was changing its common stock listing back from the NYSE to Nasdaq, which occurred on June 4, 2018.[40]

Scripps newspapers Edit

Name City Founded on Purchased on Fate Date
Cleveland Press Cleveland, Ohio 1880 — sold[α] 1980[a]
The Seattle Star Seattle, Washington 1899 — sold 1920[b]
The Toledo News-Bee Toledo, Ohio 1903 — closed 1938[β]
The Day Book Chicago, Illinois 1911 — closed 1917
Houston Press Houston, Texas 1911 — closed 1964[γ]
The Washington Daily News Washington, D.C. 1921 — sold 1972[δ]
Fort Worth Press Fort Worth, Texas 1921 — closed 1975
The Cincinnati Post Cincinnati, Ohio 1881 1881 closed[c] 2007
Evansville Courier & Press Evansville, Indiana 1845 1906 spun off[ε] 2015
Memphis Press-Scimitar Memphis, Tennessee 1880 1906 closed 1983
Indianapolis Times Indianapolis, Indiana 1888 1922 closed 1965
San Francisco News San Francisco, California 1903 1922 merged 1959[ζ]
Youngstown Telegram Youngstown, Ohio 1885 1922 closed 1936[η]
Pittsburgh Press Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1884 1923 sold 1992[θ]
The Albuquerque Tribune Albuquerque, New Mexico 1922 1923 closed 2008
Rocky Mountain News Denver, Colorado 1859 1926 closed 2009
The Knoxville News-Sentinel Knoxville, Tennessee 1886 1926 spun off[ε] 2015
New York World-Telegram New York City 1867 1927 merged 1966[ι]
El Paso Herald-Post El Paso, Texas 1881 1931 closed 1997
The Commercial Appeal Memphis, Tennessee 1841 1936 spun off[ε] 2015
The Register-Pajaronian Watsonville, California 1868 1940 sold[κ] 1995
Birmingham Post-Herald Birmingham, Alabama 1850[d] 1950[e] closed 2005
Columbus Citizen-Journal Columbus, Ohio 1899[f] 1959[g] closed 1985
The Stuart News[h] Stuart, Florida 1913 1965 spun off[ε] 2015
Fullerton News Tribune Fullerton, California 1891 1973 sold[λ] 1987
The Jupiter Courier[h] Jupiter, Florida 1957 1978 spun off[ε] 2015[i]
Naples Daily News Naples, Florida 1923 1986 spun off[ε] 2015
Kitsap Sun Bremerton, Washington 1935 1986 spun off[ε] 2015
Redding Record Searchlight Redding, California 1938 1986 spun off[ε] 2015
Thousand Oaks News Chronicle Thousand Oaks, California 1953 1986 merged 1995[μ]
Ventura County Star Camarillo, California 1925 1992 spun off[ε] 2015
Indian River Press Journal[h] Vero Beach, Florida 1919 1996 spun off[ε] 2015
Abilene Reporter-News Abilene, Texas 1881 1997 spun off[ε] 2015
San Angelo Standard-Times San Angelo, Texas 1884 1997 spun off[ε] 2015
The Daily Camera Boulder, Colorado 1890 1997 sold[ν] 2009
Times Record News Wichita Falls, Texas 1907 1997 spun off[ε] 2015
The Gleaner Henderson, Kentucky 1883 2000 spun off[ε] 2015
The St. Lucie News-Tribune[h] Fort Pierce, Florida 1903 2000 spun off[ε] 2015
Colorado Daily Boulder, Colorado 1892 2005 sold[ν] 2009

Syndicates Edit

The distribution rights to properties syndicated by United Media were outsourced to Universal Uclick in February 2011. While United Media effectively ceased to exist, Scripps still maintains copyrights and intellectual property rights.[26][27]

Scripps also operated United Press International (United Press from its 1907 inception until a 1958 merger with Hearst's International News Service) until selling it off in 1982.

Broadcasting Edit

Scripps' broadcast television stations division—also commonly known as Scripps Media or Scripps Howard Broadcasting, formerly Continental Radio, currently owns or operates 62 television stations in forty-three markets, with full-power and low-power stations as well as rebroadcaster, translator, repeater and satellite stations included. Among them, nineteen ABC affiliates, twelve CBS affiliates, eleven NBC affiliates, six Fox affiliates, four CW affiliates, three specialty network affiliated stations, one MyNetworkTV affiliate and one station independent of any network affiliation.

History Edit

1935–1947: Early history, radio era Edit

The company was formed in 1935 when Scripps Howard made its foray into broadcasting by purchasing radio station WDBZ, renaming it WCPO after newspaper The Cincinnati Post.[42]

Later on, Scripps purchased radio station, WNOX from the Sterchi Brothers furniture chain.[43][44] In 1936, The Commercial Appeal was purchased by the Scripps Howard newspaper chain, which included the WMC stations.[45] In 1937, the Memphis Press-Scimitar bought out WGBC from First Baptist Church of Memphis in 1937 and changed the letters to WMPS.

1947–1977: The television era Edit

In 1947, Scripps expanded its broadcast holdings by opening its first television station, Cleveland-based WEWS-TV. This was followed in 1948 by Memphis-based WMC-TV and Cincinnati-based WCPO-TV in 1949.[4]

The company expanded its television holdings in 1961 by purchasing West Palm Beach station WPTV-TV from the Phipps family. It was followed nearly nine years later by its purchase of its Tulsa station KVOO-TV from Central Plains Enterprises. The sale received FCC approval on November 25, 1970, and was finalized the following month on December 31.[46][47] On January 1, 1971, the day after the Scripps purchase was completed, the station changed its call letters to KTEW-TV (standing for "Tulsa E.W. Scripps", and also easily interpreted as sounding like the phoneticism for "two"). This change was made due to an FCC rule in effect at the time that banned TV and radio stations in the same market, but with different owners from sharing the same call letters.[48]

By 1963, the company has taken on its familiar name Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Company, and made it public.[49]

1977–1994: The independent expansion Edit

In 1977, the company expanded its focus onto independent station territory by purchasing KBMA-TV in Kansas City from the Businessmen's Assurance Company of America, but in 1981 the station was renamed to KSHB-TV. Nearly seven years later, in 1984, after Edwin Copperstein rebuffed a bid from Tribune Company, Scripps immediately purchased independent station, KNXV-TV in Phoenix. To make room for the sale, Scripps was required to divest itself of radio stations KMEO-AM-FM.[50]

Nearly one year later, Scripps purchased ABC station, WXYZ-TV in Detroit, and independent station WFTS-TV in Tampa Bay from Capital Cities Communications as part of a spin-off reorganization, after the FCC felt that the combination of Cap Cities and ABC exceeded the new ownership limit of 12 stations and the 25% national reach limit.[51][52] On October 9, 1986, two of Scripps' stations in Phoenix and Kansas City became affiliates of the Fox Broadcasting Company television network.[53] A third independent station in Tampa Bay joined Fox in 1988 after WTOG-TV disaffiliated from the network.[54]

In 1988, the broadcasting division of the company started its own production company Scripps Howard Productions in order to produce and market television programs.[49]

From 1990 to 1995, Scripps was a partner in the regional sports network SportSouth, along with Turner Broadcasting and Tele-Communications, Inc.; in 1996 the network was sold to News Corporation and became Fox Sports South.

In the summer of 1990, Scripps bought out the NBC Baltimore affiliate WMAR-TV from Gillett Communications, but in February 1991 the transfer was canceled after Scripps accused Gillett of misreporting WMAR's financial statements. Gillett then took legal action against Scripps,[55] but both sides settled and the sale went forward. Scripps took control of the station in the spring of 1991.[56]

On July 19, 1993, Scripps sold WMC-AM-FM-TV to Atlanta businessman Bert Ellis and his new company, Ellis Communications.[57]

In 1994, Scripps acquired the Knoxville-based Cinetel Productions to serve as a production base for a new home lifestyle-oriented cable network, which would eventually launch in December as HGTV. Scripps later acquired a stake in the Food Network, and launched a spin-off of HGTV known as DIY Network.[58][59][60]

1994–2000: Realignments and change Edit

See also: 1994–1996 United States broadcast television realignment § The Scripps–ABC alliance

On May 23, 1994, Fox purchased a 20 percent stake in New World Communications, owner of multiple long-tenured major-market CBS affiliates, in what was a $500 million investment.[61] In turn, 12 stations either owned by—or in the process of being purchased by—New World would switch network affiliations to Fox after existing contracts expired per-station.[62][63] Three of the displaced Fox affiliates were owned by Scripps: KNXV-TV, WFTS-TV and KSHB-TV.[64] This prompted CBS to court Scripps for a deal with KNXV and WFTS, along with long-tenured ABC affiliates WXYZ-TV and WEWS-TV; a proposed deal also included CBS purchasing a minority stake in HGTV.[65] ABC's counteroffer to keep WEWS and WXYZ was met with a demand by Scripps that WMAR, WFTS and KNXV also link with ABC.[66]: 16 

The demand came at the expense of two equally long-standing ABC affiliates: WJZ-TV had been with the network since 1948[67] while KTVK emerged in the 1980s as a market leader for local news, albeit family-owned and not part of a larger chain.[68][69] ABC offered $25 million to Scripps to exclude KNXV, which was rejected in what ABC executive Bryce Rathbone stated as Scripps "[having] a gun to their head".[66]: 16  Announced on June 15, 1994, the ABC-Scripps agreement included all three stations Scripps demanded join the network, along with WEWS and WXYZ.[70][71] For WFTS, the announcement came with an expedited buildout of a news department,[72] with local newscasts debuting the day of their switch.[73] The other displaced Fox affiliate, KSHB, affiliated with NBC as a replacement for WDAF-TV.[74] ABC later signed an unrelated affiliation deal with WCPO-TV in September 1995, taking effect on June 3, 1996.[75]

In October 1995, Comcast announced the purchase of Scripps' cable provider operation.[76]

In 1997, Scripps bought daily newspapers in the Texas cities of Abilene, Wichita Falls, San Angelo and Plano, plus the paper in Anderson, S.C. from Harte-Hanks Communications, along with 25 non-daily newspapers and San Antonio-based KENS-TV and KENS.[23] The purchase price was to be between $605 and $775 million, depending on a federal ruling.[24] (Scripps eventually spun off all of its newspapers into Journal Media Group in 2015.)

In March 1996, KSHB owner Scripps Howard Broadcasting reached a deal to manage KMCI under a local marketing agreement.[77] That August,[78] KMCI then dropped much of its home shopping programming and rebranded as "38 Family Greats", with a family-oriented general entertainment format from 6:00 a.m. to midnight, with HSN programming being relegated to the overnight hours. The new KMCI lineup included an inventory of programs that KSHB owned but had not had time to air after it switched to NBC in 1994.[79]

Exercising an option from the 1996 pact with Miller,[77] Scripps bought KMCI outright for $14.6 million in 2000, forming a legal duopoly with KSHB.[80] In 1998, the company sold Scripps Howard Productions, and Cinetel Productions was renamed to Scripps Productions.[49]

2000–2008: The Shop at Home era Edit

Scripps also previously owned the Shop at Home Network from 2000 until 2006. Shop at Home in turn owned five television stations, all as a division of its cable network division managed separately from the company's traditional commercial network affiliate stations.

Attempts to use Shop at Home as a complementary service to Food Network and HGTV by selling products connected to personalities of those networks were middling compared to competitors QVC and HSN. 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.[81] Jewelry Television eventually acquired Shop at Home, but Scripps still intended to sell its affiliated stations (Jewelry Television discontinued most Shop at Home operations in March 2008). 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.[82]

2008–present: Scripps today Edit

In October 2007, Scripps announced that it would separate into two publicly traded companies: The E. W. Scripps Company (newspapers, TV stations, licensing/syndication) and Scripps Networks Interactive (Cooking Channel (formerly known as Fine Living), DIY Network, Food Network, Great American Country, HGTV, and Travel Channel). The transaction was completed on July 1, 2008.[83]

After a test launch at WFTS-TV in 2009, Scripps television stations launched YouTube channels in 2010. These are similar to YouTube channels operated by Hearst Television and LIN Television.

Scripps was the recipient of the 2012 National Association of Broadcasters Distinguished Service Award.[84]

On October 3, 2011, Scripps 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.[85] This deal was approved by the FTC on October 31[86] and the FCC on November 29.[87] The deal was completed on December 30, 2011.[88]

On February 10, 2014, Scripps announced it has reached a deal to acquire Buffalo ABC affiliate WKBW-TV and Detroit MyNetworkTV affiliate WMYD for $110 million.[89] The sale was approved by the FCC on May 2, 2014, and was completed on June 16, 2014. This deal has created a duopoly between WMYD and ABC affiliate WXYZ-TV.

On July 30, 2014, Scripps and Journal Communications announced that the two companies would merge and spin-off their newspaper assets.[31] The deal created a broadcast group under the E. W. Scripps Company name and retaining the Cincinnati headquarters, and a newspaper company based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, under the Journal Media Group name.[32] The FCC approved the deal on December 12, 2014, and it was approved by shareholders on March 11, 2015.[33] The merger and spinoff were completed on April 1, 2015.[34][35] In turn, Journal Media Group was acquired by Gannett Company on April 8, 2016. Gannett had also shed their television and broadcast operations into a spin-off, Tegna, months after the Scripps-Journal merger.

On January 25, 2018, it was announced that Scripps had placed its radio station unit for sale. The divestiture of these stations – which were acquired through the company's 2015 acquisition of Journal Communications – would result in the separation of Scripps's television stations in Tulsa, Omaha, Milwaukee, Boise and Tucson from their co-owned radio clusters (in the case of Tulsa, KJRH-TV would be separated from KFAQ for the second time; the two stations, then using the shared KVOO callsign, were first split up in 1970, when Central Plains Enterprises sold the then-KVOO-TV to Scripps).[90] In June 2018, Griffin Communications reached a deal to buy the Scripps Tulsa radio cluster. The sale was completed on July 28, 2018. In July 2018, Good Karma Brands reached a deal to buy the Scripps Milwaukee radio cluster. The sale was completed on November 1, 2018.

On August 20, 2018, Scripps agreed to purchase ABC affiliates KXXV in Waco, Texas and satellite station KRHD-CD in Bryan, Texas and WTXL-TV in Tallahassee, Florida, which are being spun off from the Gray Television-Raycom Media merger in order to alleviate ownership conflicts involving Gray's ownership of CBS affiliate KWTX-TV and its semi-satellite KBTX-TV in the Waco market and CBS affiliate WCTV and Retro Television Network affiliate WFXU in the Tallahassee market.[91][92]

On October 29, 2018, Cordillera Communications announced that it would sell all but one of its television stations to Scripps. KVOA in Tucson, Arizona is not included in the deal as Scripps already owns KGUN-TV and KWBA in that market, and Cordillera will concurrently sell KVOA to Quincy Media.[93] The FCC approved the sale on April 5, 2019,[94] and the sale was completed on May 1.[95]

On March 20, 2019, Scripps announced that it would acquire eight of the 21 (initially 19[96]) stations being divested as part of Nexstar Media Group's $580 million (USD) acquisition of Tribune Media. The Tribune stations include CBS affiliates WTKR in Norfolk and WTVR-TV in Richmond—both in Virginia, along with Fox affiliates KSTU in Salt Lake City, Utah and WXMI in Grand Rapids, Michigan and CW affiliates WPIX in New York City, WGNT in Norfolk, Virginia and WSFL-TV in Miami, Florida. The only Nexstar station being acquired is CW affiliate KASW in Phoenix, Arizona—which would create a duopoly with longtime Scripps-owned ABC affiliate KNXV-TV. Also, Nexstar has the option to buy WPIX back between March 31, 2020, and December 31, 2021.[97][98][99] The FCC approved the sale on September 16 with all of the transactions being completed on September 19.[100][101][102][103][104]

In July 2020, the company sold their Stitcher podcast service and assets to Sirius XM for $325 million.[105]

On September 22, 2020, the company announced it was buying KCDO-TV and KSBS-CD from Newsweb Corporation for $9.5 million, pending approval of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC); this would make them sister stations to ABC affiliate KMGH-TV.[106] For the time being, KCDO has moved Grit to its primary 3.1 subchannel. The sale was completed on November 20.[107]

On September 24, 2020, Scripps announced the acquisition of American media company Ion Media, including its networks, Ion Television, Ion Plus, Qubo, and Ion Shop for $2.65 billion.[108]

Scripps finally completed its sale of WPIX to Mission Broadcasting on December 30, 2020, which will also allow the company to keep three of the Ion stations that were slated to be sold to a new company, Inyo Broadcast Holdings. The sales of WPPX-TV in Philadelphia, KKPX-TV in San Francisco and KPXM-TV in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota were contingent on whether or not the sale of WPIX would close and be finalized before Scripps completed its acquisition of Ion Media.[109][110]

Scripps Sports (2022–present) Edit

Main article: Scripps Sports
 
Logo of Scripps Sports

In late 2022, Scripps created an in-house sports division with the intent of offering its local stations or Ion to teams and leagues as an alternative to the fledgling regional sports network.[111] The division, eventually called Scripps Sports, announced on April 20, 2023, a deal with Ion and the WNBA for a broadcast package airing on Friday nights during the regular season, with "WNBA Friday Night Spotlight on Ion" featuring both national and regional telecasts. It marked the WNBA's first agreement with an over-the-air broadcast network other than ABC since 2002, the last year of NBC's tenure as the league's primary broadcast partner.

On May 4, 2023, Scripps Sports announced a deal with a professional sports franchise, the NHL's Vegas Golden Knights, with ION affiliate KMCC serving as the flagship of a regional network of stations that would broadcast all non-exclusive regular-season games beginning with the 2023-24 season. KMCC also transferred its Ion Television programming to a subchannel and rebrand as an independent station, with KUPX-TV doing the same. Scripps also did not renew the affiliations with the CW on its second subchannels for its statewide Montana Television Network and converted them to independent stations to accommodate the broadcasts.[112]

On October 5, 2023, Scripps Sports announced a deal with the NHL’s Arizona Coyotes, with ABC affiliate KNXV’s sub-channel Antenna TV (15.2) serving as the flagship network for all non-national exclusive games in the Phoenix market beginning with the 2023-24 season. The 2nd digital subchannel of KGUN-TV, in Tucson, as well as KUPX and the 2nd digital subchannel of KSTU, in Salt Lake City, also air Coyotes games.[113]

Television stations Edit

Stations are arranged alphabetically by state and by city of license.

  • A blue background indicates a station acquired from Journal Communications.
  • A lavender blue background indicates a station acquired from McGraw-Hill.
  • A gray background indicates a station acquired from Cordillera Communications.
  • An orange background indicates a station acquired from Ion Media and currently in the Ion Media unit of Katz Broadcasting (d/b/a Scripps Networks), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Scripps.
  • (**) – Indicates station was built and signed on by Scripps.
City of license / Market Station Channel Owned since Affiliation
Appleton–Green Bay, WI WACY-TV 32 2015 Independent
Archer Lodge–Raleigh–Durham, NC WFPX-TV 62 2021 Bounce TV
Arlington–Dallas–Fort Worth, TX KPXD-TV 68 2021 Ion
Bakersfield, CA KERO-TV 23 2011 ABC
Bakersfield, CA KZKC-LD[A] 28 2011 ABC
Baltimore, MD WMAR-TV 2 1991 ABC
Bellevue–Seattle–Tacoma, WA KWPX-TV 33 2021 Ion
Billings, MT KTVQ 2 2019
Boston, MA WBPX-TV 68 2021 Ion
Bozeman, MT KBZK[B] 7 2019
  • CBS
  • Independent
Bradenton–Tampa–St. Petersburg, FL WXPX-TV 66 2021 Ion
Brunswick, GA–Jacksonville, FL WPXC-TV 21 2021 Ion
Bryan–College Station, TX KRHD-CD[C] 40 2019[ξ] ABC
Buffalo, NY WKBW-TV 7 2014 ABC
Butte, MT KXLF-TV 4 2019
  • CBS
  • Independent
Caldwell–Boise, ID KNIN-TV 9 2015[i] Fox
Cape Coral–Fort Myers–Naples, FL WFTX-TV 36 2015 Fox
Cedar Rapids–Waterloo–Iowa City, IA KPXR-TV 48 2021 Ion
Charleston–Huntington, WV WLPX-TV 29 2021 Ion
Chicago, IL WCPX-TV 38 2021 Ion
Cincinnati, OH WCPO-TV ** 9 1949 ABC
Cleveland–Akron–Canton, OH WEWS-TV ** 5 1947 ABC
Columbia, SC WZRB 47 2021 Ion
Concord–Manchester, NH WPXG-TV[D] 21 2021 Ion
Conroe–Houston, TX KPXB-TV 49 2021 Ion
Corpus Christi, TX KRIS-TV 6 2019
Corpus Christi, TX KZTV 10 2019[ii] CBS
Corpus Christi, TX K22JA-D 47 2019
Denver, CO KMGH-TV 7 2011 ABC
Denver, CO KZCO-LD 7.2 2011 Ion Mystery
Denver, CO KSBS-CD[E] 10 2020 Independent
Detroit, MI–Windsor, ON WXYZ-TV 7 1986[ο] ABC
Detroit, MI–Windsor, ON WMYD 20 2014 Independent
East St. Louis, IL–St. Louis, MO WRBU 46 2021 Ion
Franklin–Nashville, TN WNPX-TV 28 2021 Ion
Grand Rapids–Battle Creek–Kalamazoo, MI WXMI 17 2019[π] Fox
Great Falls, MT KRTV 3 2019
  • CBS
  • Independent
Great Falls, MT KTGF-LD[F] 50 2019
  • NBC
  • Independent
Green Bay, WI WGBA-TV 26 2015 NBC
Greenville–New Bern, NC WEPX-TV 38 2021 Ion
Helena, MT KXLH-LD[G] 9 2019 CBS
Helena, MT KTVH-DT 12 2019
  • NBC
  • Independent
Indianapolis, IN WRTV 6 2011 ABC
Inglewood–Los Angeles, CA KILM 64 2021 Bounce TV
Jacksonville, NC WPXU-TV[H] 35 2021 Ion
Jellico–Knoxville, TN WPXK-TV 54 2021 Ion
Kalispell, MT KAJJ-CD[I] 18 2019
  • CBS
  • Independent
Kansas City, MO KSHB-TV 41 1977 NBC
Kenosha–Milwaukee, WI WPXE-TV 55 2021 Ion
Lafayette, LA KATC 3 2019
  • ABC
  • The CW
Lansing, MI WSYM-TV 47 2015
Las Vegas, NV KTNV-TV 13 2015 ABC
Laughlin–Las Vegas, NV KMCC 34 2021 Independent
Lawrence, KS–Kansas City, MO KMCI-TV 38 2002 Independent
Lewiston–Portland, ME WIPL 35 2021 Ion
Lexington, KY WLEX-TV 18 2019 NBC
London–Columbus, OH WSFJ-TV 51 2021 Bounce TV
Manassas, VA–Washington, DC WPXW-TV 66 2021 Ion
Martinsburg, WV–Hagerstown, MD WWPX-TV[J] 60 2021 Ion
Melbourne–Orlando–Daytona Beach, FL WOPX-TV 56 2021 Ion
Miami–Fort Lauderdale, FL WSFL-TV 39 2019[π] The CW
Miami–Fort Lauderdale, FL WPXM-TV 35 2021 Ion
Milwaukee, WI WTMJ-TV 4 2015 NBC
Missoula, MT KPAX-TV 8 2019
  • CBS
  • Independent
Nampa–Boise, ID KIVI-TV 6 2015 ABC
Nashville, TN WTVF 5 2015 CBS
New Orleans, LA WPXL-TV 49 2021 Ion
New York City, NY WPXN-TV 31 2021 Ion
Newport–Providence, RI–New Bedford, MA WPXQ-TV 69 2021 Ion
Newton–Des Moines, IA KFPX-TV 39 2021 Ion
Norfolk–Virginia Beach, VA WTKR 3 2019[π] CBS
Okmulgee–Tulsa, OK KTPX-TV 44 2021 Ion
Omaha, NE KMTV-TV 3 2015 CBS
Phoenix, AZ KNXV-TV 15 1985 ABC
Phoenix, AZ KASW 61 2019[π] The CW
Pittsburgh, PA WINP-TV 16 2021 Ion
Portsmouth–Norfolk–Virginia Beach, VA WGNT 27 2019[π] The CW
Provo–Salt Lake City, UT KUPX-TV 16 2021 Independent
Pueblo–Colorado Springs, CO KOAA-TV 5 2019 NBC
Richmond, IN–Dayton–Springfield, OH WKOI-TV 43 2021 Ion
Richmond, VA WTVR-TV 6 2019[π] CBS
Roanoke–Lynchburg, VA WPXR-TV 38 2021 Ion
Rocky Mount–Raleigh–Durham, NC WRPX-TV 47 2021 Ion
Rome–Atlanta, GA WPXA-TV 14 2021 Ion
Sacramento, CA KSPX-TV 29 2021 Ion
Salem–Portland, OR KPXG-TV 22 2021 Ion
Salt Lake City, UT KSTU 13 2019[π] Fox
San Bernardino–Los Angeles, CA KPXN-TV 30 2021 Ion
San Diego, CA KGTV 10 2011 ABC
San Diego, CA KZSD-LD[K] 10 2011 ABC
San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland, CA KKPX-TV 65 2021 Ion
San Luis Obispo–Santa Barbara, CA KSBY 6 2019
  • NBC
  • The CW
Scranton–Wilkes-Barre, PA WQPX-TV 64 2021 Ion
Sierra Vista, AZ KWBA-TV 58 2015 The CW
St. Cloud–Minneapolis–St. Paul, MN KPXM-TV 41 2021 Ion
Sterling–Denver, CO KCDO-TV 3 2020 Independent
Stuart–West Palm Beach, FL WHDT 9 2019 Independent
Syracuse, NY WSPX-TV 56 2021 Ion
Tallahassee, FL WTXL-TV 27 2019[ξ] ABC
Tampa–St. Petersburg, FL WFTS-TV 28 1986[ο] ABC
Tucson, AZ KGUN-TV 9 2015
  • ABC
  • Ion
Tulsa, OK KJRH-TV 2 1971 NBC
Twin Falls, ID KSAW-LD[L] 6 2015 ABC
Uvalde–San Antonio, TX KPXL-TV 26 2021 Ion
Waco–Temple, TX KXXV 25 2019[ξ] ABC
West Palm Beach, FL WPTV-TV 5 1961 NBC
West Palm Beach, FL WFLX 29 2011[iii] Fox
Wilmington, DE–Philadelphia, PA WPPX-TV 61 2021 Ion
Woburn, MA WDPX-TV 58 2021 Grit

Former stations Edit

Television Edit

Former general commercial stations
City of license / Market Station Channel Years owned Current status
Lansing, MI WHTV 18 2014–2017[iv] Defunct, went off-air in 2017
New York City, NY WPIX 11 2019–2020[π] The CW affiliate owned by Mission Broadcasting[v]
Memphis, TN WMC-TV ** 5 1948–1993 NBC affiliate owned by Gray Television
San Antonio, TX KENS-TV 5 1997[vi] CBS affiliate owned by Tegna Inc.
Former Shop at Home owned-and-operated stations
City of license / Market Station Channel Years owned Current status
San Francisco, CA KCNS 38 2002–2006 ShopHQ station owned by WRNN-TV Associates
Bridgeport, CT–New York City, NY WSAH 43 2002–2007 MeTV Plus affiliate WZME, owned by Weigel Broadcasting
Lawrence–Boston, MA WMFP 62 2002–2007 Shop LC station owned by WRNN-TV Associates
Wilson–Raleigh–Durham, NC WRAY-TV 30 2002–2006 TCT owned and operated (O&O)
Canton–Cleveland, OH WOAC-TV 67 2002–2006 TCT owned and operated (O&O) WRLM on channel 47

Radio Edit

  • (**) – Indicates station was built and signed on by Scripps.
AM Station FM Station
City of license / Market Station Years owned Current status
Baltimore, MD WBSB-FM 104.3 1980–1993 WZFT, owned by iHeartMedia
Boise, ID KJOT 105.1 2015–2018 Owned by Lotus Communications
KQXR 100.3 2015–2018 Owned by Lotus Communications
KRVB 94.9 2015–2018 Owned by Lotus Communications
KTHI 107.1 2015–2018 Owned by Lotus Communications
Cincinnati, OH WCPO 1230 1935–1966 WDBZ, owned by Urban One
WCPO-FM 105.1 ** 1949–1966 WUBE-FM, owned by Hubbard Broadcasting
Cleveland, OH WEWS-FM 102.1 ** 1947–1950 Defunct, frequency currently used by WDOK
Knoxville, TN WNOX 990 1935–1982 WNML, owned by Cumulus Media
WCYQ 100.3 2015–2018 Owned by SummitMedia
WKHT 104.5 2015–2018 Owned by SummitMedia
WNOX 93.1 2015–2018 Owned by SummitMedia
WWST 102.1 2015–2018 Owned by SummitMedia
Memphis, TN WMPS 680 1937–1944 WMFS, owned by Audacy, Inc.
WMC 790 1937–1993 Owned by Audacy, Inc.
WMC-FM 99.7 ** 1947–1993 WLFP, owned by Audacy, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI WTMJ 620 2015–2018 Owned by Good Karma Brands
WKTI 94.5 2015–2018 Owned by Good Karma Brands
Omaha, NE KXSP 590 2015–2018 Owned by SummitMedia
KEZO-FM 92.3 2015–2018 Owned by SummitMedia
KKCD 105.9 2015–2018 Owned by SummitMedia
KQCH 94.1 2015–2018 Owned by SummitMedia
KSRZ 104.5 2015–2018 Owned by SummitMedia
Phoenix, AZ KMEO 740 1980–1985 KIDR, owned by En Familia, Inc.
KMEO-FM 96.9 1980–1985 KMXP, owned by iHeartMedia
Portland, OR KUPL 1330 1981–1993 Defunct, went off-air in 2021 as KKPZ
KUPL-FM 98.7 1981–1993 Owned by Alpha Media
San Antonio, TX KENS 1160[vi] 1997 KRDY, owned by Relevant Radio
Springfield, MO KSGF 1260 2015–2018 Owned by SummitMedia
KSGF-FM 104.1 2015–2018 Owned by SummitMedia
KRVI 106.7 2015–2018 Owned by SummitMedia
KSPW 96.5 2015–2018 Owned by SummitMedia
KTTS-FM 94.7 2015–2018 Owned by SummitMedia
Tucson, AZ KFFN 1490 2015–2018 Owned by Lotus Communications
KMXZ-FM 94.9 2015–2018 Owned by Lotus Communications
KQTH 104.1 2015–2018 KFLT-FM, owned by Family Life Broadcasting
KTGV 106.3 2015–2018 Owned by Bustos Media
Tulsa, OK KFAQ 1170 2015–2018 KTSB, owned by Griffin Communications
KBEZ 92.9 2015–2018 Owned by Griffin Communications
KHTT 106.9 2015–2018 Owned by Griffin Communications
KVOO-FM 98.5 2015–2018 Owned by Griffin Communications
KXBL 99.5 2015–2018 Owned by Griffin Communications
Wichita, KS KFTI 1070 2015–2018 Owned by SummitMedia
KFDI-FM 101.3 2015–2018 Owned by SummitMedia
KFXJ 104.5 2015–2018 Owned by SummitMedia
KICT-FM 95.1 2015–2018 Owned by SummitMedia
KYQQ 106.5 2015–2018 Owned by SummitMedia

National Spelling Bee Edit

Main article: Scripps National Spelling Bee

Scripps also operates the national (US) spelling bee. The final competition is in Washington, DC, and it is broadcast on Ion Television and Bounce TV. Lower levels are organized by the school, then county and eventually to the final competition.

Notes Edit

License ownership/operational agreements Edit

  1. ^ Owned by Marquee Broadcasting.
  2. ^ Owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting.
  3. ^ Owned by Gray Television.
  4. ^ Owned by Venture Technologies Group.
  5. ^ Operated by Nexstar Media Group.
  6. ^ a b Operated by the Belo Corporation.

Mergers and acquisitions Edit

  1. ^ Acquired by Joseph E. Cole.
  2. ^ Assets acquired by The Toledo Blade.
  3. ^ Assets acquired by The Houston Chronicle.
  4. ^ Assets acquired by, and merged into, The Washington Star.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Spun off to Journal Media Group.
  6. ^ Merged into Hearst's San Francisco Call-Bulletin to form The News-Call Bulletin in 1959. Hearst acquired complete control in 1962 and merged it into the San Francisco Examiner in 1965.
  7. ^ Assets acquired by the Youngstown Vindicator Printing Company and merged into The Vindicator.
  8. ^ Assets acquired by Block Communications and merged into the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
  9. ^ Merged into the New York Journal American and New York Herald Tribune to form the New York World Journal Tribune, jointly owned by Scripps, Hearst and John Hay Whitney. The World Journal Tribune folded on May 5, 1967.
  10. ^ Acquired by News Media Corp.
  11. ^ Acquired by Community Media Enterprises.
  12. ^ Merged into the co-owned Ventura County Star with publication relocated to Camarillo, California.
  13. ^ a b Acquired by Media News Group.
  14. ^ a b c Acquired as divestitures from the Gray Television–Raycom Media merger.
  15. ^ a b Acquired as divestitures from the Capital Cities–ABC merger.
  16. ^ a b c d e f g h Acquired as divestitures from the Nexstar Media Group–Tribune Broadcasting merger.

Satellites, semi-satellites and translators Edit

  1. ^ Translator of KERO.
  2. ^ Satellite of KXLF.
  3. ^ Semi-satellite of KXXV.
  4. ^ Satellite of WBPX-TV.
  5. ^ Satellite of KCDO-TV.
  6. ^ Satellite of KTVH.
  7. ^ Satellite of KRTV.
  8. ^ Satellite of WEPX-TV.
  9. ^ Satellite of KPAX.
  10. ^ Satellite of WPXW-TV.
  11. ^ Translator of KGTV.
  12. ^ Semi-satellite of KIVI-TV.
  1. ^ Closed on June 17, 1982.
  2. ^ Closed on August 13, 1947.
  3. ^ The paper's Covington, Kentucky, edition converted to online-only as KyPost.com.
  4. ^ The paper's roots trace back to the Elyton Herald, founded 21 years before Birmingham's incorporation as a city.
  5. ^ Merged with the Scripps-owned Birmingham Post in 1950.
  6. ^ Also had roots in The Ohio State Journal, which was founded in 1814.
  7. ^ Merged with the Scripps-owned Columbus Citizen in 1959.
  8. ^ a b c d Part of Treasure Coast Newspapers.
  9. ^ Closed on April 25, 2019.

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scripps, company, confused, with, other, organizations, named, scripps, american, broadcasting, company, founded, 1878, chain, daily, newspapers, edward, willis, scripps, sister, ellen, browning, scripps, also, formerly, media, conglomerate, company, headquart. Not to be confused with other organizations named Scripps The E W Scripps Company is an American broadcasting company founded in 1878 as a chain of daily newspapers by Edward Willis E W Scripps and his sister Ellen Browning Scripps It was also formerly a media conglomerate The company is headquartered at the Scripps Center in Cincinnati Ohio 2 Its corporate motto is Give light and the people will find their own way which is symbolized by the media empire s longtime lighthouse logo 3 The E W Scripps CompanyScripps headquarters in Cincinnati OhioTypePublicTraded asNasdaq SSP Series A 1988 1991 2018 present NYSE SSP 1991 2018 S amp P 600 componentIndustryBroadcast televisionFoundedNovember 2 1878 144 years ago November 2 1878 as the Penny Press in Cleveland OhioFounderEdward W ScrippsHeadquartersScripps Center Cincinnati Ohio U S Key peopleRich Boehne Chairman Adam P Symson President amp CEO RevenueUS 2 28 billion 2021 Operating incomeUS 401 million 2021 Net incomeUS 123 million 2021 Total assetsUS 6 66 billion 2021 Total equityUS 1 97 billion 2021 Number of employeesc 5 600 December 2021 DivisionsScripps NetworksWebsitewww wbr scripps wbr comFootnotes references 1 In terms of market reach Scripps is the second largest operator of ABC affiliates behind the Sinclair Broadcast Group and ahead of Hearst Television and Tegna Scripps also owns a number of free to air multi genre digital subchannel multicast networks through its Scripps Networks division including the Ion Television network and Scripps News Contents 1 History 1 1 19th century 1 2 20th century 1 3 21st century 2 Scripps newspapers 2 1 Syndicates 3 Broadcasting 3 1 History 3 1 1 1935 1947 Early history radio era 3 1 2 1947 1977 The television era 3 1 3 1977 1994 The independent expansion 3 1 4 1994 2000 Realignments and change 3 1 5 2000 2008 The Shop at Home era 3 1 6 2008 present Scripps today 3 2 Scripps Sports 2022 present 3 3 Television stations 3 4 Former stations 3 4 1 Television 3 4 2 Radio 4 National Spelling Bee 5 Notes 5 1 License ownership operational agreements 5 2 Mergers and acquisitions 5 3 Satellites semi satellites and translators 6 See also 7 References 8 Sources 9 External linksHistory Edit19th century Edit The E W Scripps Company was a newspaper company founded on November 2 1878 when Edward Willis Scripps published the first issue of the Cleveland Penny Press 4 In 1894 Scripps and his half brother George H Scripps organized their various papers into the first modern newspaper chain In July 1895 it was named the Scripps McRae League to reflect the leadership of Cincinnati Post general manager Milton A McRae a longtime partner 5 6 The company expanded during the decade to publish newspapers in California Denver Chicago Dallas and Nashville and elsewhere 4 20th century Edit In early November 1922 the Scripps McRae League was renamed Scripps Howard Newspapers to recognize company executive Roy W Howard 7 On November 23 the E W Scripps Company was incorporated and placed in trust for Scripps children and grandchildren 8 The company s shares were divided into two types Class A Common Shares which were traded on the New York Stock Exchange and common voting shares which were not publicly traded and elected a majority of the company s directors A number of media companies including the New York Times Company and the Washington Post organization are governed by this system so that the descendants of the company s founders can keep control of the company 9 E W Scripps died in 1926 On June 2 1902 Scripps founded the Newspaper Enterprise Association NEA based in Cleveland Ohio as a news report service for different Scripps owned newspapers It started selling content to non Scripps owned newspapers in 1907 and by 1909 it became a more general syndicate offering comics pictures and features as well It moved from Cleveland to Chicago in 1915 with an office in San Francisco NEA rapidly grew and delivered content to 400 newspapers in 1920 and about 700 in 1930 10 Today it is the oldest syndicate still in operation Scripps created the United Press news agency in 1907 by uniting three smaller syndicates and controlled it until a 1958 merger with William Randolph Hearst s smaller competing agency INS to form United Press International With the Hearst Corporation as a minority partner UPI continued under Scripps management until it was sold off in 1982 11 12 13 14 A separate wire service the Scripps Howard News Service operated for 96 years from 1917 to 2013 15 United Feature Syndicate was formed in 1919 as a division of UP to distribute editorial columns features and comic strips and became a dominant player in the syndication market in the fall of 1931 thanks to Scripps acquisition of the New York World which controlled the Pulitzer company s syndication arms Press Publishing Co and World Feature Service 16 17 18 15 In May 1978 Scripps merged United Feature Syndicate and Newspaper Enterprise Association to form United Media Enterprises 19 20 The company expanded its newspaper holdings throughout the pre World War II period acquiring many titles and merging them including the Rocky Mountain News and Knoxville News Sentinel A trickle of closures and sales occurred over the next few decades In 1966 Scripps New York World Telegram was merged into the New York World Journal Tribune which closed in 1967 Papers in Indianapolis Washington Houston and Fort Worth were closed in the 1960s and 1970s and the former flagship Cleveland Press was sold in 1980 Scripps also closed properties in Memphis Columbus Thousand Oaks and El Paso throughout the 1980s and 1990s while selling the Pittsburgh Press in 1992 In 1985 the company went into home video foray with its acquisition of Kartes Video Communications in an effort to expand the marketplace 21 Two years later Scripps Howard sold off Kartes Video Communications back to its founders after an aborted deal where Scripps Howard s acquisition of Hanes failed 22 In 1997 Scripps bought daily newspapers in the Texas cities of Abilene Wichita Falls San Angelo and Plano plus the paper in Anderson South Carolina from Harte Hanks Communications along with 25 non daily newspapers and San Antonio based KENS TV and KENS AM 23 The purchase price was to be between 605 and 775 million depending on a federal ruling 24 Scripps eventually spun off all of its newspapers into Journal Media Group in 2015 Scripps made its first foray into broadcasting in 1935 forming a company called Continental Radio and buying radio stations WCPO in Cincinnati and WNOX in Knoxville After the war In 1947 Scripps opened its first television station Cleveland based WEWS TV with Memphis based WMC TV and Cincinnati based WCPO TV in subsequent years 4 It now owns dozens of TV and radio stations In the 1980s and 1990s Scripps became a cable television provider and also developed programming for cable notably SportSouth currently Bally Sports South in 1990 in a joint venture with Turner Broadcasting and TCI Food Network in 1993 and HGTV in 1994 Scripps spun off its cable properties into Scripps Network Interactive in 2008 The company went public with an IPO in 1988 and was traded on the NASDAQ 4 It owned 20 daily newspapers and 9 television stations at the time with and cable systems in 10 states The company completed a new downtown Cincinnati headquarters the 35 story high rise Scripps Center in 1990 25 In 1991 Scripps transferred its shares to the New York Stock Exchange 21st century Edit In October 2007 Scripps 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 DIY Network Cooking Channel formerly known as Fine Living Travel Channel and Great American Country The transaction was completed on July 1 2008 After a test launch at WFTS TV in 2009 Scripps television stations launched YouTube channels in 2010 These are similar to YouTube channels operated by Hearst Television and LIN Television On February 24 2011 United Media struck a distribution deal with Universal Uclick now known as Andrews McMeel Syndication for syndication of the company s 150 comic strip and news features which became effective on June 1 of that year 26 27 At that point United Media and by extension the Scripps Company exited the syndication business 28 On September 12 2011 Scripps partnered with Cox Media Group and Raycom Media to launch Right This Minute a viral video program On the same day Scripps launched The List a news magazine Both were part of an approach for homegrown programming programming created by Scripps Raycom also launched America Now on the same day The creator of RTM and The List applied this homegrown programming approach to Tegna in 2015 with the launch of T D Jakes Scripps launched Let s Ask America in 2013 now cancelled partnering with Telepictures to do so and Pickler and Ben in 2017 On October 3 2011 Scripps announced it was purchasing the television arm of McGraw Hill for 212 million 29 This purchase nearly doubled the number of Scripps stations to 19 with a combined reach of 13 of U S households Upon the 2012 death of E W Scripps grandson Robert Scripps the Edward W Scripps Trust was dissolved and its stock divided among the surviving trustees 9 In December 2013 Scripps purchased Newsy for 35 Million 30 On July 30 2014 Scripps and Journal Communications announced that the two companies would merge and spin off their newspaper assets 31 The deal created a broadcast group under the E W Scripps Company name and retaining the Cincinnati headquarters and a newspaper company based in Milwaukee Wisconsin under the Journal Media Group name 32 The FCC approved the deal on December 12 2014 and it was approved by shareholders on March 11 2015 33 The merger and spinoff were completed on April 1 2015 34 35 In turn Journal Media Group was acquired by Gannett Company on April 8 2016 Gannett had also shed their television and broadcast operations into a spin off Tegna months after the Scripps Journal merger In April 2016 Demand Media announced the sale of the humor listicle website Cracked com to E W Scripps 36 In June it acquired podcast service Stitcher from Deezer 37 On August 1 2017 Scripps announced the purchase of Katz Broadcasting and its three networks plus Bounce which Katz operates for 292 million acquiring the other 95 of the company 38 The purchase was completed on October 2 2017 39 On May 22 2018 Scripps announced that it was changing its common stock listing back from the NYSE to Nasdaq which occurred on June 4 2018 40 Scripps newspapers EditThis list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items February 2009 Name City Founded on Purchased on Fate DateCleveland Press Cleveland Ohio 1880 sold a 1980 a The Seattle Star Seattle Washington 1899 sold 1920 b The Toledo News Bee Toledo Ohio 1903 closed 1938 b The Day Book Chicago Illinois 1911 closed 1917Houston Press Houston Texas 1911 closed 1964 g The Washington Daily News Washington D C 1921 sold 1972 d Fort Worth Press Fort Worth Texas 1921 closed 1975The Cincinnati Post Cincinnati Ohio 1881 1881 closed c 2007Evansville Courier amp Press Evansville Indiana 1845 1906 spun off e 2015Memphis Press Scimitar Memphis Tennessee 1880 1906 closed 1983Indianapolis Times Indianapolis Indiana 1888 1922 closed 1965San Francisco News San Francisco California 1903 1922 merged 1959 z Youngstown Telegram Youngstown Ohio 1885 1922 closed 1936 h Pittsburgh Press Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 1884 1923 sold 1992 8 The Albuquerque Tribune Albuquerque New Mexico 1922 1923 closed 2008Rocky Mountain News Denver Colorado 1859 1926 closed 2009The Knoxville News Sentinel Knoxville Tennessee 1886 1926 spun off e 2015New York World Telegram New York City 1867 1927 merged 1966 i El Paso Herald Post El Paso Texas 1881 1931 closed 1997The Commercial Appeal Memphis Tennessee 1841 1936 spun off e 2015The Register Pajaronian Watsonville California 1868 1940 sold k 1995Birmingham Post Herald Birmingham Alabama 1850 d 1950 e closed 2005Columbus Citizen Journal Columbus Ohio 1899 f 1959 g closed 1985The Stuart News h Stuart Florida 1913 1965 spun off e 2015Fullerton News Tribune Fullerton California 1891 1973 sold l 1987The Jupiter Courier h Jupiter Florida 1957 1978 spun off e 2015 i Naples Daily News Naples Florida 1923 1986 spun off e 2015Kitsap Sun Bremerton Washington 1935 1986 spun off e 2015Redding Record Searchlight Redding California 1938 1986 spun off e 2015Thousand Oaks News Chronicle Thousand Oaks California 1953 1986 merged 1995 m Ventura County Star Camarillo California 1925 1992 spun off e 2015Indian River Press Journal h Vero Beach Florida 1919 1996 spun off e 2015Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas 1881 1997 spun off e 2015San Angelo Standard Times San Angelo Texas 1884 1997 spun off e 2015The Daily Camera Boulder Colorado 1890 1997 sold n 2009Times Record News Wichita Falls Texas 1907 1997 spun off e 2015The Gleaner Henderson Kentucky 1883 2000 spun off e 2015The St Lucie News Tribune h Fort Pierce Florida 1903 2000 spun off e 2015Colorado Daily Boulder Colorado 1892 2005 sold n 2009Syndicates Edit United Media 1978 2011 consisted of United Feature Syndicate est 1919 syndicated many notable comic strips including Peanuts Garfield Li l Abner Dilbert Nancy and Marmaduke Newspaper Enterprise Association est 1902 originally a secondary news service to the Scripps Howard News Service later evolved into a general syndicate best known for syndicating Alley Oop Freckles and His Friends The Born Loser and Frank and Ernest in addition to an annual Christmas comic strip 41 The distribution rights to properties syndicated by United Media were outsourced to Universal Uclick in February 2011 While United Media effectively ceased to exist Scripps still maintains copyrights and intellectual property rights 26 27 Scripps also operated United Press International United Press from its 1907 inception until a 1958 merger with Hearst s International News Service until selling it off in 1982 Broadcasting Edit The template below Overly detailed is being considered for merging See templates for discussion to help reach a consensus This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia s inclusion policy May 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message Scripps broadcast television stations division also commonly known as Scripps Media or Scripps Howard Broadcasting formerly Continental Radio currently owns or operates 62 television stations in forty three markets with full power and low power stations as well as rebroadcaster translator repeater and satellite stations included Among them nineteen ABC affiliates twelve CBS affiliates eleven NBC affiliates six Fox affiliates four CW affiliates three specialty network affiliated stations one MyNetworkTV affiliate and one station independent of any network affiliation History Edit 1935 1947 Early history radio era Edit The company was formed in 1935 when Scripps Howard made its foray into broadcasting by purchasing radio station WDBZ renaming it WCPO after newspaper The Cincinnati Post 42 Later on Scripps purchased radio station WNOX from the Sterchi Brothers furniture chain 43 44 In 1936 The Commercial Appeal was purchased by the Scripps Howard newspaper chain which included the WMC stations 45 In 1937 the Memphis Press Scimitar bought out WGBC from First Baptist Church of Memphis in 1937 and changed the letters to WMPS 1947 1977 The television era Edit In 1947 Scripps expanded its broadcast holdings by opening its first television station Cleveland based WEWS TV This was followed in 1948 by Memphis based WMC TV and Cincinnati based WCPO TV in 1949 4 The company expanded its television holdings in 1961 by purchasing West Palm Beach station WPTV TV from the Phipps family It was followed nearly nine years later by its purchase of its Tulsa station KVOO TV from Central Plains Enterprises The sale received FCC approval on November 25 1970 and was finalized the following month on December 31 46 47 On January 1 1971 the day after the Scripps purchase was completed the station changed its call letters to KTEW TV standing for Tulsa E W Scripps and also easily interpreted as sounding like the phoneticism for two This change was made due to an FCC rule in effect at the time that banned TV and radio stations in the same market but with different owners from sharing the same call letters 48 By 1963 the company has taken on its familiar name Scripps Howard Broadcasting Company and made it public 49 1977 1994 The independent expansion Edit In 1977 the company expanded its focus onto independent station territory by purchasing KBMA TV in Kansas City from the Businessmen s Assurance Company of America but in 1981 the station was renamed to KSHB TV Nearly seven years later in 1984 after Edwin Copperstein rebuffed a bid from Tribune Company Scripps immediately purchased independent station KNXV TV in Phoenix To make room for the sale Scripps was required to divest itself of radio stations KMEO AM FM 50 Nearly one year later Scripps purchased ABC station WXYZ TV in Detroit and independent station WFTS TV in Tampa Bay from Capital Cities Communications as part of a spin off reorganization after the FCC felt that the combination of Cap Cities and ABC exceeded the new ownership limit of 12 stations and the 25 national reach limit 51 52 On October 9 1986 two of Scripps stations in Phoenix and Kansas City became affiliates of the Fox Broadcasting Company television network 53 A third independent station in Tampa Bay joined Fox in 1988 after WTOG TV disaffiliated from the network 54 In 1988 the broadcasting division of the company started its own production company Scripps Howard Productions in order to produce and market television programs 49 From 1990 to 1995 Scripps was a partner in the regional sports network SportSouth along with Turner Broadcasting and Tele Communications Inc in 1996 the network was sold to News Corporation and became Fox Sports South In the summer of 1990 Scripps bought out the NBC Baltimore affiliate WMAR TV from Gillett Communications but in February 1991 the transfer was canceled after Scripps accused Gillett of misreporting WMAR s financial statements Gillett then took legal action against Scripps 55 but both sides settled and the sale went forward Scripps took control of the station in the spring of 1991 56 On July 19 1993 Scripps sold WMC AM FM TV to Atlanta businessman Bert Ellis and his new company Ellis Communications 57 In 1994 Scripps acquired the Knoxville based Cinetel Productions to serve as a production base for a new home lifestyle oriented cable network which would eventually launch in December as HGTV Scripps later acquired a stake in the Food Network and launched a spin off of HGTV known as DIY Network 58 59 60 1994 2000 Realignments and change Edit See also 1994 1996 United States broadcast television realignment The Scripps ABC alliance On May 23 1994 Fox purchased a 20 percent stake in New World Communications owner of multiple long tenured major market CBS affiliates in what was a 500 million investment 61 In turn 12 stations either owned by or in the process of being purchased by New World would switch network affiliations to Fox after existing contracts expired per station 62 63 Three of the displaced Fox affiliates were owned by Scripps KNXV TV WFTS TV and KSHB TV 64 This prompted CBS to court Scripps for a deal with KNXV and WFTS along with long tenured ABC affiliates WXYZ TV and WEWS TV a proposed deal also included CBS purchasing a minority stake in HGTV 65 ABC s counteroffer to keep WEWS and WXYZ was met with a demand by Scripps that WMAR WFTS and KNXV also link with ABC 66 16 The demand came at the expense of two equally long standing ABC affiliates WJZ TV had been with the network since 1948 67 while KTVK emerged in the 1980s as a market leader for local news albeit family owned and not part of a larger chain 68 69 ABC offered 25 million to Scripps to exclude KNXV which was rejected in what ABC executive Bryce Rathbone stated as Scripps having a gun to their head 66 16 Announced on June 15 1994 the ABC Scripps agreement included all three stations Scripps demanded join the network along with WEWS and WXYZ 70 71 For WFTS the announcement came with an expedited buildout of a news department 72 with local newscasts debuting the day of their switch 73 The other displaced Fox affiliate KSHB affiliated with NBC as a replacement for WDAF TV 74 ABC later signed an unrelated affiliation deal with WCPO TV in September 1995 taking effect on June 3 1996 75 In October 1995 Comcast announced the purchase of Scripps cable provider operation 76 In 1997 Scripps bought daily newspapers in the Texas cities of Abilene Wichita Falls San Angelo and Plano plus the paper in Anderson S C from Harte Hanks Communications along with 25 non daily newspapers and San Antonio based KENS TV and KENS 23 The purchase price was to be between 605 and 775 million depending on a federal ruling 24 Scripps eventually spun off all of its newspapers into Journal Media Group in 2015 In March 1996 KSHB owner Scripps Howard Broadcasting reached a deal to manage KMCI under a local marketing agreement 77 That August 78 KMCI then dropped much of its home shopping programming and rebranded as 38 Family Greats with a family oriented general entertainment format from 6 00 a m to midnight with HSN programming being relegated to the overnight hours The new KMCI lineup included an inventory of programs that KSHB owned but had not had time to air after it switched to NBC in 1994 79 Exercising an option from the 1996 pact with Miller 77 Scripps bought KMCI outright for 14 6 million in 2000 forming a legal duopoly with KSHB 80 In 1998 the company sold Scripps Howard Productions and Cinetel Productions was renamed to Scripps Productions 49 2000 2008 The Shop at Home era Edit Scripps also previously owned the Shop at Home Network from 2000 until 2006 Shop at Home in turn owned five television stations all as a division of its cable network division managed separately from the company s traditional commercial network affiliate stations Attempts to use Shop at Home as a complementary service to Food Network and HGTV by selling products connected to personalities of those networks were middling compared to competitors QVC and HSN 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 81 Jewelry Television eventually acquired Shop at Home but Scripps still intended to sell its affiliated stations Jewelry Television discontinued most Shop at Home operations in March 2008 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 82 2008 present Scripps today Edit In October 2007 Scripps announced that it would separate into two publicly traded companies The E W Scripps Company newspapers TV stations licensing syndication and Scripps Networks Interactive Cooking Channel formerly known as Fine Living DIY Network Food Network Great American Country HGTV and Travel Channel The transaction was completed on July 1 2008 83 After a test launch at WFTS TV in 2009 Scripps television stations launched YouTube channels in 2010 These are similar to YouTube channels operated by Hearst Television and LIN Television Scripps was the recipient of the 2012 National Association of Broadcasters Distinguished Service Award 84 On October 3 2011 Scripps 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 85 This deal was approved by the FTC on October 31 86 and the FCC on November 29 87 The deal was completed on December 30 2011 88 On February 10 2014 Scripps announced it has reached a deal to acquire Buffalo ABC affiliate WKBW TV and Detroit MyNetworkTV affiliate WMYD for 110 million 89 The sale was approved by the FCC on May 2 2014 and was completed on June 16 2014 This deal has created a duopoly between WMYD and ABC affiliate WXYZ TV On July 30 2014 Scripps and Journal Communications announced that the two companies would merge and spin off their newspaper assets 31 The deal created a broadcast group under the E W Scripps Company name and retaining the Cincinnati headquarters and a newspaper company based in Milwaukee Wisconsin under the Journal Media Group name 32 The FCC approved the deal on December 12 2014 and it was approved by shareholders on March 11 2015 33 The merger and spinoff were completed on April 1 2015 34 35 In turn Journal Media Group was acquired by Gannett Company on April 8 2016 Gannett had also shed their television and broadcast operations into a spin off Tegna months after the Scripps Journal merger On January 25 2018 it was announced that Scripps had placed its radio station unit for sale The divestiture of these stations which were acquired through the company s 2015 acquisition of Journal Communications would result in the separation of Scripps s television stations in Tulsa Omaha Milwaukee Boise and Tucson from their co owned radio clusters in the case of Tulsa KJRH TV would be separated from KFAQ for the second time the two stations then using the shared KVOO callsign were first split up in 1970 when Central Plains Enterprises sold the then KVOO TV to Scripps 90 In June 2018 Griffin Communications reached a deal to buy the Scripps Tulsa radio cluster The sale was completed on July 28 2018 In July 2018 Good Karma Brands reached a deal to buy the Scripps Milwaukee radio cluster The sale was completed on November 1 2018 On August 20 2018 Scripps agreed to purchase ABC affiliates KXXV in Waco Texas and satellite station KRHD CD in Bryan Texas and WTXL TV in Tallahassee Florida which are being spun off from the Gray Television Raycom Media merger in order to alleviate ownership conflicts involving Gray s ownership of CBS affiliate KWTX TV and its semi satellite KBTX TV in the Waco market and CBS affiliate WCTV and Retro Television Network affiliate WFXU in the Tallahassee market 91 92 On October 29 2018 Cordillera Communications announced that it would sell all but one of its television stations to Scripps KVOA in Tucson Arizona is not included in the deal as Scripps already owns KGUN TV and KWBA in that market and Cordillera will concurrently sell KVOA to Quincy Media 93 The FCC approved the sale on April 5 2019 94 and the sale was completed on May 1 95 On March 20 2019 Scripps announced that it would acquire eight of the 21 initially 19 96 stations being divested as part of Nexstar Media Group s 580 million USD acquisition of Tribune Media The Tribune stations include CBS affiliates WTKR in Norfolk and WTVR TV in Richmond both in Virginia along with Fox affiliates KSTU in Salt Lake City Utah and WXMI in Grand Rapids Michigan and CW affiliates WPIX in New York City WGNT in Norfolk Virginia and WSFL TV in Miami Florida The only Nexstar station being acquired is CW affiliate KASW in Phoenix Arizona which would create a duopoly with longtime Scripps owned ABC affiliate KNXV TV Also Nexstar has the option to buy WPIX back between March 31 2020 and December 31 2021 97 98 99 The FCC approved the sale on September 16 with all of the transactions being completed on September 19 100 101 102 103 104 In July 2020 the company sold their Stitcher podcast service and assets to Sirius XM for 325 million 105 On September 22 2020 the company announced it was buying KCDO TV and KSBS CD from Newsweb Corporation for 9 5 million pending approval of the Federal Communications Commission FCC this would make them sister stations to ABC affiliate KMGH TV 106 For the time being KCDO has moved Grit to its primary 3 1 subchannel The sale was completed on November 20 107 On September 24 2020 Scripps announced the acquisition of American media company Ion Media including its networks Ion Television Ion Plus Qubo and Ion Shop for 2 65 billion 108 Scripps finally completed its sale of WPIX to Mission Broadcasting on December 30 2020 which will also allow the company to keep three of the Ion stations that were slated to be sold to a new company Inyo Broadcast Holdings The sales of WPPX TV in Philadelphia KKPX TV in San Francisco and KPXM TV in Minneapolis St Paul Minnesota were contingent on whether or not the sale of WPIX would close and be finalized before Scripps completed its acquisition of Ion Media 109 110 Scripps Sports 2022 present Edit Main article Scripps Sports nbsp Logo of Scripps SportsIn late 2022 Scripps created an in house sports division with the intent of offering its local stations or Ion to teams and leagues as an alternative to the fledgling regional sports network 111 The division eventually called Scripps Sports announced on April 20 2023 a deal with Ion and the WNBA for a broadcast package airing on Friday nights during the regular season with WNBA Friday Night Spotlight on Ion featuring both national and regional telecasts It marked the WNBA s first agreement with an over the air broadcast network other than ABC since 2002 the last year of NBC s tenure as the league s primary broadcast partner On May 4 2023 Scripps Sports announced a deal with a professional sports franchise the NHL s Vegas Golden Knights with ION affiliate KMCC serving as the flagship of a regional network of stations that would broadcast all non exclusive regular season games beginning with the 2023 24 season KMCC also transferred its Ion Television programming to a subchannel and rebrand as an independent station with KUPX TV doing the same Scripps also did not renew the affiliations with the CW on its second subchannels for its statewide Montana Television Network and converted them to independent stations to accommodate the broadcasts 112 On October 5 2023 Scripps Sports announced a deal with the NHL s Arizona Coyotes with ABC affiliate KNXV s sub channel Antenna TV 15 2 serving as the flagship network for all non national exclusive games in the Phoenix market beginning with the 2023 24 season The 2nd digital subchannel of KGUN TV in Tucson as well as KUPX and the 2nd digital subchannel of KSTU in Salt Lake City also air Coyotes games 113 Television stations Edit Stations are arranged alphabetically by state and by city of license A blue background indicates a station acquired from Journal Communications A lavender blue background indicates a station acquired from McGraw Hill A gray background indicates a station acquired from Cordillera Communications An orange background indicates a station acquired from Ion Media and currently in the Ion Media unit of Katz Broadcasting d b a Scripps Networks a wholly owned subsidiary of Scripps Indicates station was built and signed on by Scripps City of license Market Station Channel Owned since AffiliationAppleton Green Bay WI WACY TV 32 2015 IndependentArcher Lodge Raleigh Durham NC WFPX TV 62 2021 Bounce TVArlington Dallas Fort Worth TX KPXD TV 68 2021 IonBakersfield CA KERO TV 23 2011 ABCBakersfield CA KZKC LD A 28 2011 ABCBaltimore MD WMAR TV 2 1991 ABCBellevue Seattle Tacoma WA KWPX TV 33 2021 IonBillings MT KTVQ 2 2019 CBSIndependentBoston MA WBPX TV 68 2021 IonBozeman MT KBZK B 7 2019 CBSIndependentBradenton Tampa St Petersburg FL WXPX TV 66 2021 IonBrunswick GA Jacksonville FL WPXC TV 21 2021 IonBryan College Station TX KRHD CD C 40 2019 3 ABCBuffalo NY WKBW TV 7 2014 ABCButte MT KXLF TV 4 2019 CBSIndependentCaldwell Boise ID KNIN TV 9 2015 i FoxCape Coral Fort Myers Naples FL WFTX TV 36 2015 FoxCedar Rapids 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Obispo Santa Barbara CA KSBY 6 2019 NBCThe CWScranton Wilkes Barre PA WQPX TV 64 2021 IonSierra Vista AZ KWBA TV 58 2015 The CWSt Cloud Minneapolis St Paul MN KPXM TV 41 2021 IonSterling Denver CO KCDO TV 3 2020 IndependentStuart West Palm Beach FL WHDT 9 2019 IndependentSyracuse NY WSPX TV 56 2021 IonTallahassee FL WTXL TV 27 2019 3 ABCTampa St Petersburg FL WFTS TV 28 1986 o ABCTucson AZ KGUN TV 9 2015 ABCIonTulsa OK KJRH TV 2 1971 NBCTwin Falls ID KSAW LD L 6 2015 ABCUvalde San Antonio TX KPXL TV 26 2021 IonWaco Temple TX KXXV 25 2019 3 ABCWest Palm Beach FL WPTV TV 5 1961 NBCWest Palm Beach FL WFLX 29 2011 iii FoxWilmington DE Philadelphia PA WPPX TV 61 2021 IonWoburn MA WDPX TV 58 2021 GritFormer stations Edit Television Edit Former general commercial stations City of license Market Station Channel Years owned Current statusLansing MI WHTV 18 2014 2017 iv Defunct went off air in 2017New York City NY WPIX 11 2019 2020 p The CW affiliate owned by Mission Broadcasting v Memphis TN WMC TV 5 1948 1993 NBC affiliate owned by Gray TelevisionSan Antonio TX KENS TV 5 1997 vi CBS affiliate owned by Tegna Inc Former Shop at Home owned and operated stations City of license Market Station Channel Years owned Current statusSan Francisco CA KCNS 38 2002 2006 ShopHQ station owned by WRNN TV AssociatesBridgeport CT New York City NY WSAH 43 2002 2007 MeTV Plus affiliate WZME owned by Weigel BroadcastingLawrence Boston MA WMFP 62 2002 2007 Shop LC station owned by WRNN TV AssociatesWilson Raleigh Durham NC WRAY TV 30 2002 2006 TCT owned and operated O amp O Canton Cleveland OH WOAC TV 67 2002 2006 TCT owned and operated O amp O WRLM on channel 47Radio Edit Indicates station was built and signed on by Scripps AM Station FM StationCity of license Market Station Years owned Current statusBaltimore MD WBSB FM 104 3 1980 1993 WZFT owned by iHeartMediaBoise ID KJOT 105 1 2015 2018 Owned by Lotus CommunicationsKQXR 100 3 2015 2018 Owned by Lotus CommunicationsKRVB 94 9 2015 2018 Owned by Lotus CommunicationsKTHI 107 1 2015 2018 Owned by Lotus CommunicationsCincinnati OH WCPO 1230 1935 1966 WDBZ owned by Urban OneWCPO FM 105 1 1949 1966 WUBE FM owned by Hubbard BroadcastingCleveland OH WEWS FM 102 1 1947 1950 Defunct frequency currently used by WDOKKnoxville TN WNOX 990 1935 1982 WNML owned by Cumulus MediaWCYQ 100 3 2015 2018 Owned by SummitMediaWKHT 104 5 2015 2018 Owned by SummitMediaWNOX 93 1 2015 2018 Owned by SummitMediaWWST 102 1 2015 2018 Owned by SummitMediaMemphis TN WMPS 680 1937 1944 WMFS owned by Audacy Inc WMC 790 1937 1993 Owned by Audacy Inc WMC FM 99 7 1947 1993 WLFP owned by Audacy Inc Milwaukee WI WTMJ 620 2015 2018 Owned by Good Karma BrandsWKTI 94 5 2015 2018 Owned by Good Karma BrandsOmaha NE KXSP 590 2015 2018 Owned by SummitMediaKEZO FM 92 3 2015 2018 Owned by SummitMediaKKCD 105 9 2015 2018 Owned by SummitMediaKQCH 94 1 2015 2018 Owned by SummitMediaKSRZ 104 5 2015 2018 Owned by SummitMediaPhoenix AZ KMEO 740 1980 1985 KIDR owned by En Familia Inc KMEO FM 96 9 1980 1985 KMXP owned by iHeartMediaPortland OR KUPL 1330 1981 1993 Defunct went off air in 2021 as KKPZKUPL FM 98 7 1981 1993 Owned by Alpha MediaSan Antonio TX KENS 1160 vi 1997 KRDY owned by Relevant RadioSpringfield MO KSGF 1260 2015 2018 Owned by SummitMediaKSGF FM 104 1 2015 2018 Owned by SummitMediaKRVI 106 7 2015 2018 Owned by SummitMediaKSPW 96 5 2015 2018 Owned by SummitMediaKTTS FM 94 7 2015 2018 Owned by SummitMediaTucson AZ KFFN 1490 2015 2018 Owned by Lotus CommunicationsKMXZ FM 94 9 2015 2018 Owned by Lotus CommunicationsKQTH 104 1 2015 2018 KFLT FM owned by Family Life BroadcastingKTGV 106 3 2015 2018 Owned by Bustos MediaTulsa OK KFAQ 1170 2015 2018 KTSB owned by Griffin CommunicationsKBEZ 92 9 2015 2018 Owned by Griffin CommunicationsKHTT 106 9 2015 2018 Owned by Griffin CommunicationsKVOO FM 98 5 2015 2018 Owned by Griffin CommunicationsKXBL 99 5 2015 2018 Owned by Griffin CommunicationsWichita KS KFTI 1070 2015 2018 Owned by SummitMediaKFDI FM 101 3 2015 2018 Owned by SummitMediaKFXJ 104 5 2015 2018 Owned by SummitMediaKICT FM 95 1 2015 2018 Owned by SummitMediaKYQQ 106 5 2015 2018 Owned by SummitMediaNational Spelling Bee EditMain article Scripps National Spelling Bee Scripps also operates the national US spelling bee The final competition is in Washington DC and it is broadcast on Ion Television and Bounce TV Lower levels are organized by the school then county and eventually to the final competition Notes EditLicense ownership operational agreements Edit Owned by Marquee Broadcasting Owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting Owned by Gray Television Owned by Venture Technologies Group Operated by Nexstar Media Group a b Operated by the Belo Corporation Mergers and acquisitions Edit Acquired by Joseph E Cole Assets acquired by The Toledo Blade Assets acquired by The Houston Chronicle Assets acquired by and merged into The Washington Star a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Spun off to Journal Media Group Merged into Hearst s San Francisco Call Bulletin to form The News Call Bulletin in 1959 Hearst acquired complete control in 1962 and merged it into the San Francisco Examiner in 1965 Assets acquired by the Youngstown Vindicator Printing Company and merged into The Vindicator Assets acquired by Block Communications and merged into the Pittsburgh Post Gazette Merged into the New York Journal American and New York Herald Tribune to form the New York World Journal Tribune jointly owned by Scripps Hearst and John Hay Whitney The World Journal Tribune folded on May 5 1967 Acquired by News Media Corp Acquired by Community Media Enterprises Merged into the co owned Ventura County Star with publication relocated to Camarillo California a b Acquired by Media News Group a b c Acquired as divestitures from the Gray Television Raycom Media merger a b Acquired as divestitures from the Capital Cities ABC merger a b c d e f g h Acquired as divestitures from the Nexstar Media Group Tribune Broadcasting merger Satellites semi satellites and translators Edit Translator of KERO Satellite of KXLF Semi satellite of KXXV Satellite of WBPX TV Satellite of KCDO TV Satellite of KTVH Satellite of KRTV Satellite of WEPX TV Satellite of KPAX Satellite of WPXW TV Translator of KGTV Semi satellite of KIVI TV Closed on June 17 1982 Closed on August 13 1947 The paper s Covington Kentucky edition converted to online only as KyPost com The paper s roots trace back to the Elyton Herald founded 21 years before Birmingham s incorporation as a city Merged with the Scripps owned Birmingham Post in 1950 Also had roots in The Ohio State Journal which was founded in 1814 Merged with the Scripps owned Columbus Citizen in 1959 a b c d Part of Treasure Coast Newspapers Closed on April 25 2019 See also EditEdward W Scripps Ellen Browning Scripps James E Scripps Charles Scripps Scripps Howard Foundation Scripps Ranch Edward W Estlow Scripps Networks InteractiveReferences Edit E W Scripps Co 2021 Annual Report Form 10 K SEC gov U S Securities and Exchange Commission February 25 2022 pp 13 F 22 F 23 SSP Profile amp Executives EW Scripps Co Bloomberg bloomberg com Retrieved October 18 2012 Osborne Kevin February 21 2007 Cover Story The Light Dims Cincinnati CityBeat Cincinnati Ohio Lightborne Publishing Retrieved August 28 2011 The corporate motto for Cincinnati based media chain E W Scripps Co is a quote from Ella Give light and the people will find their own way which the lighthouse logo has come to symbolize a b c d e History Scripps E W Scripps Company Retrieved April 18 2020 McRae 1924 p 119 Scripps 1926 p 190 Syndicate Changes Name The New York Times November 4 1922 p 28 Scripps Timeline E W Scripps Company November 29 1921 Archived from the original on December 18 2014 Retrieved December 30 2014 a b Press Releases The E W Scripps Company Scripps com Press release Archived from the original on October 14 2013 Retrieved October 14 2013 Monmonier Mark S 1989 Maps with the news the development of American journalistic cartography University of Chicago Press pp 80 83 ISBN 978 0 226 53411 4 Retrieved August 28 2009 Joe Alex Morris 1957 Deadline Every Minute The Story of the United Press ARCHIVE ORG ONLINE VERSION Doubleday amp Company Scripps Howard Ohio History Central ohiohistory com UPI History United Press International Atwater James D December 24 1989 U P I Look Back in Sorrow book review of Down to the Wire UPI s Fight for Survival By Gregory Gordon and Ronald E Cohen The New York Times Retrieved March 15 2011 a b Scripps Howard News Service Will Close Down After 96 Years Bloomberg News November 13 2013 Accessed April 5 2015 Booker M Keith United Feature Syndicate in Comics through Time A History of Icons Idols and Ideas A History of Icons Idols and Ideas ABC CLIO 2014 p 399 Booker M Keith United Feature Syndicate in Comics through Time A History of Icons Idols and Ideas ABC CLIO 2014 p 399 United Feature Syndicate Buys Metropolitan Service From Elser Both Firms Will Retain Separate Identities With Elser Remaining as Vice President Monte Bourjaily to Direct Both Organizations Editor amp Publisher March 15 1930 Archived at News of Yore 1930 Another Syndicate Gobbled Stripper s Guide May 4 2010 News Features Services Merge As United Media United Press International May 19 1978 Retrieved February 23 2015 United Features consolidates The Comics Journal 44 Jan 1979 p 17 Seideman Tony November 16 1985 Scripps Howard Buys Kartes PDF Billboard p 35 Retrieved December 28 2021 Stewart Al December 12 1987 Founder Buys Kartes Vid From Scripps Howard PDF Billboard p 1 Retrieved December 28 2021 a b Scripps to Acquire Harte Hanks Outlets Los Angeles Times May 20 1997 Retrieved October 14 2013 a b Kenneth N Gilpin Published May 20 1997 May 20 1997 Scripps to Buy Harte Hanks Media Assets The New York Times Retrieved October 14 2013 Alter Maxim November 7 2014 Then amp Now An interactive look at downtown Cincinnati s past WCPO TV E W Scripps Company Archived from the original on December 30 2014 Retrieved December 30 2014 a b The E W Scripps Company February 24 2011 Universal Uclick to Provide Syndicate Services for United Media Press release PR Newswire Retrieved February 24 2011 a b United Media Outsources Content to Universal Uclick Editor amp Publisher April 29 2011 Retrieved April 29 2011 permanent dead link Cavna Michael July 1 2011 RIP UNITED MEDIA A century old syndicate closes its historic doors The Washington Post Scripps to buy nine television stations from McGraw Hill Press release E W Scripps Company October 3 2011 Scripps Buys Newsy For 35M To Expand From TV And Newspapers To Digital Video TechCrunch December 9 2013 Retrieved December 9 2013 a b Carr David August 11 2014 Print Is Down and Now Out Media Companies Spin Off Newspapers to Uncertain Futures The New York Times p B1 Archived from the original on August 11 2014 Turns out not so much quite the opposite really The Washington Post seems fine but recently in just over a week three of the biggest players in American newspapers Gannett Tribune Company and E W Scripps companies built on print franchises that expanded into television dumped those properties like yesterday s news in a series of spinoffs a b E W Scripps Journal Merging Broadcast Ops TVNewsCheck July 30 2014 Retrieved July 31 2014 a b Journal Scripps shareholders OK transaction closing expected by early April Milwaukee Business Journal Retrieved March 11 2015 a b Scripps Journal Merger Complete Broadcastingcable com April 2015 Retrieved July 18 2018 a b Scripps Journal Communications Complete Merger And Spinoff Netnewscheck com Archived from the original on July 18 2018 Retrieved July 18 2018 Demand Media Sells Cracked Business to The E W Scripps Company for 39 Million e Business Wire Press release April 12 2016 Retrieved April 27 2016 Roettgers Janko June 6 2016 Scripps Buys Podcast Service Stitcher from Deezer Variety Retrieved July 18 2018 Marszalek Diana August 1 2017 E W Scripps Buys Katz Networks in 302M Deal Broadcasting amp Cable Retrieved August 2 2017 Miller Mark K October 2 2017 E W Scripps Closes 302M Katz Purchase TVNewsCheck com Retrieved November 7 2017 Scripps to Transfer Stock Listing to Nasdaq PR Newswire May 22 2018 Stripper s Guide Santa s Secrets Day 5 Strippersguide blogspot com Retrieved July 18 2018 Martini Michael A 2011 Cincinnati Radio Charleston South Carolina Arcadia Publishing p 30 ISBN 978 0 7385 8864 3 WNOX Is Acquired by Scripps Howard Broadcasting November 1 1935 p 8 Retrieved June 15 2018 East Tennessee Historical Society Lucile Deaderick editor Heart of the Valley A History of Knoxville Tennessee Knoxville Tenn East Tennessee Historical Society 1976 p 298 State of Tennessee Historical Marker The Commercial Appeal Publishing Locations The Historical Marker Database Tulsa VHF Acquired by Scripps Howard PDF Broadcasting June 15 1970 p 31 Retrieved December 21 2017 via World Radio History For the Record PDF Broadcasting July 13 1970 p 68 Retrieved 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Baltimore Sun Scripps to sell Memphis stations for 65 million United Press International July 19 1993 Retrieved March 3 2021 Susan Packard Drove Home HGTV s Culture While Ratings Sprouted Investors com March 24 2016 Retrieved October 26 2016 Susan Packard of HGTV and Scripps Networks Interactive shares advice at Business Women First event Albuquerque Business First Retrieved October 26 2016 Lail Jack D July 26 2017 Scripps family considers offers for Knoxville based Scripps Networks Interactive Knoxville News Sentinel Retrieved August 3 2017 Dawidziak Mark May 24 1994 Channel 8 to drop CBS for Fox 40 year affiliation ends in autumn as Fox owner pays 500 million to station s parent WJW to regain NFL games lose Letterman Channels 19 43 to fight for CBS Akron Beacon Journal Akron Ohio pp A1 A8 Archived from the original on April 29 2023 Retrieved April 29 2023 via Newspapers com Carter Bill May 24 1994 FOX WILL SIGN UP 12 NEW STATIONS TAKES 8 FROM CBS The New York Times Archived from the 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July 13 2020 SiriusXM is buying Stitcher for 325 million The Verge Retrieved July 14 2020 Application for Consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License CDBS Public Access Federal Communications Commission September 22 2020 Retrieved September 25 2020 Consummation Notice CDBS Public Access Federal Communications Commission November 23 2020 Retrieved November 23 2020 E W Scripps Buys ION Media For 2 65B With Berkshire Hathaway Investment Deadline Hollywood September 24 2020 Retrieved September 24 2020 Jacobson Adam December 16 2020 Ion Scripps Fourth Amendment TV Trio Not Going To INYO Radio amp Television Business Report Streamline Publishing Inc Retrieved December 30 2020 Wethington Kari December 30 2020 SCRIPPS COMPLETES SALE OF WPIX Scripps The E W Scripps Company Retrieved December 30 2020 E W Scripps announces formation of new sports division ABC News The Walt Disney Company Associated Press December 15 2022 Retrieved December 16 2022 VGK and Scripps Partner on Multi Year Agreement to Air NHL Team s Games Arizona Coyotes Scripps Sports Form Multi Year Broadcast Partnership Arizona Coyotes www nhl com September 6 2023 Retrieved October 6 2023 Sources EditBaldasty Gerald J January 1 1999 E W Scripps and the Business of Newspapers Champaign Illinois University of Illinois Press p https archive org details ewscrippsbusi00bald page 83 83 ISBN 0 252 02255 6 McRae Milton Alexander 1924 Forty Years in Newspaperdom The Autobiography of a Newspaper Man New York City Brentano s via HathiTrust Scripps Edward Willis 1926 Gardner Gilson ed History of the Scripps Concern External links Edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to E W Scripps Company Official website Business data for E W Scripps Company BloombergGoogleReutersSEC filingsYahoo Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title E W Scripps Company amp oldid 1180041905, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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