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The E.W. Scripps Company () is a media conglomerate founded by Edward W. Scripps on November 2, 1878, originally known as the Cleveland Penny Press. The company is headquartered inside the Scripps Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Scripps newspapers

Scripps-owned television stations

There are a total of 15 television stations that E W Scripps own. 10 of them are in direct ownership of the company and the other remaining 5 through its prior ownership of the Shop at Home Television Network. On May 22, 2006, Scripps announced that it was to cease the operations of the network and intends to sell each of Shop at Home's 5 owned and operated television stations. *

Current DMA# Market Station Year Acquired Current Affiliation Notes
5. Lawrence - Boston WMFP 62 ??? SAH / JTV
6. San Francisco - Oakland - San Jose KCNS 38 1998 SAH / JTV
11. Detroit WXYZ-TV 7 1986 ABC Acquired by Scripps in 1986, making way for ABC and
Capital Cities to merge. Until 1986, WXYZ was part of the
holy trinity of the original ABC owned and operated television
stations alongside WABC-TV New York City, KABC-TV
Los Angeles, WLS-TV Chicago and KGO-TV San Francisco.
12. Tampa - St. Petersburg WFTS-TV 28 1986 ABC Was Capital Cities owned and operated until 1986. The sale
allowed Capital Cities and ABC to merge.
14. Phoenix KNXV-TV 15 1985 ABC
16. Cleveland - Akron - Canton WEWS-TV 5 1947 ABC Founded as one of the company's flagship stations.
WOAC 67 ??? SAH / JTV
24. Baltimore WMAR-TV 2 1991 ABC Was owned and operated by Gillett Communications until
1991. Gillett Communications was one of the few successors of Storer Broadcasting.
28. Bridgeport - Hartford - New Haven WSAH 43 1999 SAH / JTV Also serves the NYC TV metropolitan area. New York City is the #1 largest market in the country.
29. Wilson - Raleigh - Durham - Fayetteville WRAY-TV 30 ??? SAH / JTV
31. Kansas City KSHB-TV 41 1977 NBC Previously held a Local Marketing Agreement with KMCI until
2001.
Lawrence - Kansas City KMCI 38 2001 Independent Previously operated with KSHB-TV under a Local Marketing Agreement until Scripps acquired the station outright in 2001.
34. Cincinnati WCPO-TV 9 1949 ABC Founded as one of the company's flagship stations. Named after the Cincinnati Post newspapers.
38. West Palm Beach - Fort Pierce WPTV-TV 5 1961 NBC
61. Tulsa KJRH 2 1971 NBC Named after former Scripps chairman Jack R. Howard.

Scripps was also the founder and original owner of WMC-TV in Memphis, Tennessee when the station began its broadcast operation on December 11, 1948. Scripps later sold the station to Ellis Communications in 1993, which became part of Raycom Media in 1996 following a merger.

Scripps also owned KENS-TV in San Antonio, Texas for three months in 1997, before swapping it to Belo for a majority stake in the Food Network in December of that year.

Scripps-owned cable television networks

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.

Images

Image:Cincinnati-scripps-center.jpg|The Scripps Center in Downtown Cincinnati. Image:ScrippsLogo.jpg|The company's corporate logo. Image:Scripps Networks.gif|Scripps Networks Logo. Image:Scripps spelling bee website.jpg|The Scripps National Spelling Bee, held annually and is seen on ESPN and/or ESPN2. Image:Scripps ibsys logo.jpg|Alternate logo used for Internet Broadcasting, which designed the website for "NewsChannel 5" WEWS-TV.

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Scripps-owned online properties

Fortune 1000 | 1878 establishments | Newspaper companies of the United States | Television broadcasting companies of the United States | Companies based in Ohio | The E.W. Scripps Company

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