| The Advent and Development of Broadcasting: |
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| Year |
Month/ Day |
Event |
| 1935 |
Aug.
24 |
Scripps
established Continental Radio. (Name
was changed May 17, 1937 to Scripps Radio,
Inc. and December 31, 1961 to Scripps
Broadcasting Company.) |
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Aug. 31 |
Acquired radio
station WFBE in Cincinnati and changed
call letters to WCPO. |
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Oct. 11 |
Purchased radio station
WNOK, Knoxville. |
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| 1938 |
March 2 |
Robert P. Scripps
died aboard his yacht off Baja, Calif. |
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Dec. 31 |
Evansville Press
combined business operations with Evansville
Courier. |
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| 1939 |
Dec. 30 |
Press-Scimitar
and Commercial Appeal merged into Memphis
Publishing Company. |
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| 1940 |
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Scripps acquires
the National Spelling Bee from the Louisville
Courier-Journal, which began the event
in 1925. |
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| 1947 |
Dec. 17
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WEWS-TV started
in Cleveland. |
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| 1948 |
Dec. 11
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WMC-TV went on
the air in Memphis. |
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| 1949 |
July 26 |
WCPO-TV went on
the air in Cincinnati. |
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| 1953 |
Jan. 1
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Charles E. Scripps
became chairman of the board of The E. W.
Scripps Company. |
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| 1957 |
Oct. 1 |
Knoxville News-Sentinel
and Journal joint operation agreement
became effective. |
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| 1958 |
May 24 |
International
News Service and picture service facilities
joined with United Press to form United
Press International. |
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| 1960 |
Jan. 23 |
Cleveland News
purchased and merged with Cleveland Press. |
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| 1961 |
Dec. 27 |
WPTV, West Palm
Beach, Fla., acquired. |
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| 1962 |
Aug. 15 |
Scripps Howard Foundation
incorporated. |
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| 1964 |
Nov. 20 |
Roy W. Howard
died. |
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| 1965 |
April 12 |
Acquired Stuart
(Fla.) News. |
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June 4 |
Acquired Hollywood
(Fla.) Sun-Tattler. |
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| 1966 |
April 24 |
New York World
Telegram and Sun merged with Journal-American and Herald Tribune to become
World Journal Tribune. After many difficulties
the new paper was suspended May 5, 1967. |
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Dec. 21
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Started Tacoma Times. |
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| 1970 |
Aug. 12 |
Acquired San Juan
Star. |
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Dec. 31 |
Purchased KTEW television
in Tulsa, and changed name to KJRH on
July 14, 1980. |
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| 1972 |
July 12 |
Washington Daily
News sold to The Washington Star. |
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| 1973 |
Dec. 28 |
Purchased Fullerton
Publishing Company (Daily News Tribune.) |
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| 1976 |
June 30 |
UPI broadcast
advisory board formed. |
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| 1977 |
Jan. 1 |
New York executive
offices moved to Cincinnati. |
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May 10 |
Acquired Grant
County News and The Leader of Boone County, both newspapers in Kentucky |
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Sept. 23 |
Cincinnati Post
and Enquirer agreed on joint operating
agreement (effective Dec. 6, 1979). |
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Oct. 28 |
Scripps Broadcasting
purchased KMBA, Kansas City. |
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| 1978 |
June 14 |
United Media Enterprises,
consolidation of Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) and United Feature Syndicate (UFS), became
effective. |
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July 1 |
Started Campbell
County (Ky.) News. |
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Oct. 1 |
Purchased weeklies
of Southern California Publishing Company,
Pico Press, Inc., and San Gabriel Valley
Publications. |
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Nov. 1 |
Purchased web
press establishment in Louisville. |
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| 1979 |
March 1 |
Purchased principal
weeklies in Louisville, Jeffersonian,
The Voice, and Reporter. In March 1980
acquired Southwest Advertiser and changed
name to Southwest News. |
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Sept. 16
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$10 million UPI
Technical Systems Center opened in Dallas. |
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Nov. 1 |
Purchased Kentucky
Standard. |
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| 1980 |
Feb. 1 |
Acquired Cordovan
Corporation, publishers of books, magazines
and business newspapers. |
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Oct. 31 |
The Cleveland
Press, 102 years after founding and a
decade of serious financial straits,
sold to a Cleveland industrialist. |
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