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E. W. Scripps Company

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The E.W. Scripps Company is an American media conglomerate founded by Edward W. Scripps on November 2, 1878. The company is headquartered inside the Scripps Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Scripps also operates a large administration complex in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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, DIY, Fine Living, GAC, Shopzilla, uSwitch). The transaction is expected to be completed in the middle of 2008.

Scripps newspapers

The Company owns 17 newspapers in the United States, and has a share of an 18th newspaper's operations. It owns about 40% of the Albuquerque Publishing Company, which operates (but does not editorially control) the Albuquerque Journal.

Scripps-owned newspapers:

Closed newspapers

Syndicates

Scripps owns the Scripps Howard News Service and United Media, which syndicates several popular comic strips including Peanuts, Dilbert and Marmaduke.

Broadcasting

E.W. Scripps' broadcast division, which is also known as Scripps Howard Broadcasting Company, currently owns ten television stations.

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 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-based Multicultural Television for $170 million.

Television stations

Note: ** indicates a station built and signed on by E.W. Scripps.

DMA# City of license/Market Station Channel
TV / DT 		Owned Since Affiliation
11. Detroit WXYZ-TV 7 / 41 1986 ABC
12. Phoenix KNXV-TV 15 / 56 1985 ABC
13. Tampa - St. Petersburg WFTS-TV 28 / 29 1986 ABC
17. Cleveland - Akron WEWS ** 5 / 15 1947 ABC
24. Baltimore WMAR-TV 2 / 52 1991 ABC
31. Kansas City, Missouri KSHB-TV 41 / 42 1977 NBC
Lawrence, Kansas KMCI 38 / 36 2001 Independent
33. Cincinnati WCPO-TV ** 9 / 10 1949 ABC
38. West Palm Beach WPTV 5 / 55 1961 NBC
60. Tulsa, Oklahoma KJRH-TV 2 / 56 1971 NBC

Former Scripps-owned stations

Television stations

DMA# City of license/Market Station Channel
TV / DT 		Years owned Affiliation
1. Bridgeport, CT - New York City WSAH-TV 43 / 42 2002-2007 Independent owned by Multicultural Television
6. San Francisco KCNS 38 / 39 2002-2006 Independent owned by Multicultural Television
7. Lawrence - Boston, MA WMFP 62 / 18 2002-2007 Independent owned by Multicultural Television
17. Canton - Cleveland, OH WOAC 67 / 47 2002-2006 Independent owned by Multicultural Television
28. Wilson - Raleigh - Durham, N.C. WRAY-TV 30 / 42 2002-2006 Independent owned by Multicultural Television
37. San Antonio KENS-TV 5 / 55 1997 CBS affiliate owned by Belo Corporation
47. Memphis WMCT/WMC-TV ** 5 / 52 1948-1993 NBC affiliate owned by Raycom Media

Radio stations

DMA# Market Station Current Ownership
23. Portland, Oregon KUPL-FM-98.5 owned by CBS Radio
KUPL-970
(now KCMD) 		owned by CBS Radio
24. Baltimore WBSB-FM-104.3
(now WSMJ) 		owned by Clear Channel Communications
32. Cincinnati WCPO-1230
(now WDBZ) 		owned by Radio One
WUBE-FM-105.1 owned by Bonneville International
28. Cleveland WEWS-FM-102.9
(now WDOK) 		owned by CBS Radio
37. San Antonio, Texas KENS-1160
(now KRDY) 		owned by ABC Radio
41. Memphis WMC-970 owned by Entercom
WMC-FM-99.7 owned by Entercom
63. Knoxville, Tennessee WNOX-990
(now WNML) 		owned by Citadel Broadcasting

Scripps-owned cable television networks

Scripps-owned Interactive Media

National Spelling Bee

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

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