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The E.W. Scripps Company () is an American media conglomerate founded by Edward W. Scripps on November 2, 1878, originally known as the Cleveland Penny Press. The company is headquartered inside the Scripps Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
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. Jewelry Television eventually acquired Shop at Home, but Scripps still intend on selling its affiliated stations. * Just confirmed on September 26, 2006, Scripps announced that it is selling its Shop at Home TV stations to Multicultural Television of New York City for $170 million. * 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. At one point the company had also owned five radio stations in Memphis, Cincinnati, Knoxville, Tennessee and Portland, Oregon. Scripps-owned cable television networks Scripps Cable Network Operations have recently been dealt a blow due to an environment deemed unsatisfactory to many of its employees. Recently, many employees have sought a different career direction due to a general level of unhappiness in the department. No formal reason for this malaise has been addressed by management at the time of this posting. 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 ABC. Image:Scripps ibsys logo.jpg|Alternate logo used for Internet Broadcasting, which designed the website for "NewsChannel 5" WEWS-TV. See also Scripps-owned online properties | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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