| Scripps Grows As a Diverse Media Company in the New Millennium: |
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| 2001 |
January |
Attorney General
Janet Reno approved the joint operating
agreement between Scripps and MediaNews
Group in Denver. |
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| 2002 |
March |
FINE LIVING launched. |
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March 28 |
Company creates Media Procurement Services, Inc. a subsidiary company, to provide newsprint management and buying services for its own newspapers and other newspaper publishing customers. |
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Sept. 23 |
The Scripps Howard Foundation and Hampton University in Virginia, in partnership to increase workplace diversity in the nation’s media, open the Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications. |
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Oct. 14 |
After a successful video-on-demand trial in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, Scripps Networks and Time Warner Cable expand their video-on-demand agreement to offer Scripps Networks on-demand programming in more than 30 Time Warner Cable markets across the country. |
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Oct. 31 |
Company acquires controlling interest of the Shop at Home television retailing network |
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| 2003 |
Oct. 23 |
Kenneth W. Lowe, president and chief executive officer, celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse and pop culture icon, Snoopy of “Peanuts” fame, preside over the opening bell ceremony at the New York Stock Exchange in observation of the company’s 125th anniversary |
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Dec. 3 |
Company establishes the Scripps Academy for Hispanic Journalists, a training and education program designed to help early-career Hispanic journalists develop the skills they need to succeed in daily newspaper careers. |
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| 2004 |
April 1 |
Company’s Washington, D.C. bureau will be known as the Scripps Media Center to recognize its new role producing magazines, special sections and other innovative products in addition to reporting the news. |
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April 14 |
Company acquires Summit America Television Inc., which includes Summit’s 30 percent minority interest in the Shop at Home television retailing network and Summit’s five Shop at Home-affiliated broadcast television stations. |
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Nov. 17 |
Company acquires the Great American Country (GAC) cable and satellite television network, a 24-hour country music video network distributed nationwide to about 34 million Nielsen rated households, from Jones Media Networks, Ltd. |
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| 2005 |
Jan. 12 |
Scripps Networks, a pioneer in the delivery of shelter-related information, launches HGTVPro.com, the first video-rich, professional-grade information online network for the building industry. |
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June 27 |
Company acquires Shopzilla, a leading online comparison shopping service and the online BizRate consumer feedback network. |
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Sept. 23 |
The Birmingham Post-Herald ceases publication due to unfavorable publishing economics. |
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Sept. 30 |
Company acquires the Colorado Daily in Boulder |
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| 2006 |
June 21 |
Jewelry Television buys the cable network assets of Shop At Home television. |
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Sept. 26 |
Scripps sells the five broadcast television stations affiliated with Shop At Home for $170 million. |
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| 2007 |
Dec. 31 |
The Cincinnati Post and The Kentucky Post publish their final editions as the JOA with The Cincinnati Enquirer expires. |
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| 2008 |
July 1 |
The company’s national and global businesses are spun off in a tax-free transaction. For every share they own, Scripps shareholders receive one share of stock in the new company, Scripps Networks Interactive. The assets that remain with The E. W. Scripps Company include 10 television stations in nine markets, daily newspapers in 15 markets, and the licensing and syndication businesses of United Media. |
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