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beginnings
1878 Edward Willis Scripps founds Cleveland Penny
Press
1880 founds St Louis Chronicle
1881 James Scripps buys Cincinnati Penny Post, renamed
Cincinnati Post in 1883 when sold to EW Scripps
1890 EW Scripps founds Kentucky Post
1892 buys San Diego Sun
1895 founds Los Angeles Record
1896 buys Kansas City World
1899 founds Seattle Star and Akron Press
1900 founds Chicago Press
1902 founds Newspaper Enterprise Association feature service
1902 buys Des Moines News
1902 founds Spokane Press
1903 founds San Francisco News and Tacoma Times
1903 buys Toledo News-Bee
1904 buys Columbus Citizen
1904 founds Sacramento Star
1905 founds Fresno Tribune
1906 founds Denver Express, Evansville Press,
Pueblo Sun, Terre Haute Post, Dallas Dispatch,
Portland News, Oklahoma News, Memphis Press
and Nashville Times
1907 buys Berkeley Independent
1909 founds Oakland Mail
1911 founds United Press service (UP)
1911 founds Houston Press and Chicago Daybook
1912 founds Philadelphia News-Post
1911 Chicago Day Book folds
1921 founds Birmingham Post, Norfolk Post,
Fort Worth Press, Washington Daily News and Knoxville
News
1921 Scripps League chain formed by heirs of Jim Scripps
1922 United Feature Service organized
1922 EW Scripps buys Youngstown Telegram and Indianapolis
Times
Scripps Howard
1922 group renamed Scripps Howard
1922 founds Baltimore Post
1923 buys Pittsburgh Press and New Mexico State
Tribune, founds United Newspictures
1926 buys Knoxville Sentinel (est 1886), merged
with Knoxville News as News-Sentinel
1926 buys Denver News & Times, merged with
Express into Rocky Mountain News
1926 Memphis News-Scimitar merged with Press
into Memphis Press-Scimitar
1926 EW Scripps dies on yacht Ohio offshore from
Liberia
second generation
1927 buys New York Telegram
1931 buys New York World from Pulitzer
family for US$5m, merges it with Telegram as World-Telegram
1933 New Mexico Tribune combines with Albuquerque
Journal as Albuquerque Tribune (Albuquerque
Publishing Company)
1935 Scripps establishes Continental Radio (later
Scripps Broadcasting), buys WFBE Cincinnati and WNOK Knoxville
1936 El Paso Herald-Post and El Paso Times
combined to form Newspaper Printing Corporation
1936 Scripps buys Memphis Commercial Appeal and
WMC Memphis
1938 Robert Scripps died aboard yacht off Baja, California
1939 merges Press-Scimitar and Commercial Appeal
into Memphis Publishing Company
1940 buys National Spelling Bee from the Louisville Courier-Journal,
which began the event in 1925
1947 founds WEWS-TV Cleveland
1948 founds WMC-TV Memphis
1949 founds WCPO-TV Cincinnati
1950 World-Telegram merged with New York Sun
1954 Scripps League buys Idaho Free Press
1956 Scripps League buys Caldwell News Tribune
1958 Scripps buys Taft-controlled
Cincinnati Times-Star
UPI
1958 International News Service and picture service facilities
join with United Press to form United Press International
(UPI)
1960 Scripps-Howard merges Cleveland News with
Cleveland Press
1961 buys WPTV West Palm Beach
1963 Scripps League buys Banning Record (est
1908), renamed the Record Gazette
1964 Roy W. Howard dies
1965 Scripps Howard buys Stuart News and Hollywood
Sun-Tattler
1965 Scrippps League buys Petaluma Argus-Courier
(est 1928)
1966 New York World-Telegram and Sun merged
with Journal- American and Herald Tribune
to become World Journal Tribune, closed in 1967
1968 Scripps sells Cincinnati Enquirer to Lindner's
American Financial group
1970 buys San Juan Star and KTEW Tulsa
1972 sells Washington Daily News
1973 buys Fullerton Daily News Tribune
1977 buys Grant County News and Boone County Leader
1977 buys KMBA Kansas City
1978 founds Campbell County News
1978 buys weeklies of Southern California Publishing Company,
Pico Press, and San Gabriel Valley Publications
1979 buys Louisville Jeffersonian, Voice
and Reporter
1980s
1980 buys Southwest Advertiser and Kentucky Standard
1980 buys Cordovan Corporation, publishers of books, magazines
and business newspapers
1980 sells Cleveland Press
1981 buys KUPL-AM/FM Portland
1982 buys Jupiter Courier-Journal, sells United
Press International (UPI)
1983 forms cable television partnership with Tele-Communications
Inc (TCI)
1983 buys Destin Log, closes Memphis Press-Scimitar
1984 buys Kentucky Pioneer News and Mt Washington
Star
1985 buys KNXV-TV Phoenix and Kartes Video, leading US
video cassette distribution company
1985 closes Columbus Citizen-Journal
1986 sells Ann Arbor Cablevision, buys WXYZ-TV Detroit
and WFTS-TV Tampa
1986 buys out Tele-Communications partnership
1986 sells McCaw Cellular Communications and interests
in Cablevision Systems
1986 sells Evansville Press and Rocky Mountain
News Business Journal, buys Evansville Courier
and Naples Daily News
1986 Scripps Business Journals merge with American City
Business Journals
1987 sells Canton Free Press, Landmark Community
Newspapers and Southern California Publishing Company
1987 sells interest in Connecticut cable system
merge and churn
1988 E.W. Scripps Company makes initial stock offering
1989 sells Hollywood Sun-Tattler
1991 buys WMAR-TV for US$125m
1991 sells Cleveland Press
1992 sells Pittsburgh Press to Block
Communications (publisher of Post-Gazette)
1992 buys Monterey County Herald from Block
1993 creates Home & Garden Television (HGTV) 24-hour cable
network
1993 sells San Juan Star
1993 sells Tulare Advance-Register to Gannett
1993 sells 'Garfield' copyrights and syndication rights
sold to cartoon's creator, Jim Davis, for US$32 million
1993 buys remaining 14% of Scripps Broadcasting and launches
HGTV
1993 buys Cinetel
1995 sells Watsonville Register-Pajaronian
1996 buys Vero Beach Press Journal
1996 sells Scripps League Newspapers to Pulitzer
1996 Scripps Howard cable television network bought by
Comcast
1997 Boulder Daily Camera acquired in swap for
Monterey County Herald and San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune
from Knight Ridder
1997 buys Harte-Hanks operations
for US$775m, inc Corpus Christi Caller-Times,
San Angelo Standard Times, Wichita Falls Times
Record News, Abilene Reporter-News and the
Plano Star Courier and Anderson Independent-Mail
1997 gains controlling interest in Food Network through
sale of Harte-Hanks San Antonio broadcast stations to
Belo
1997 sells Los Angeles-based Scripps Howard Productions
unit
1998 sells Dallas Community Newspapers, including Plano
Star Courier
1999 Scripps joins consortium to acquire AdOne, online
classified network
2000 buys KMCI TV Lawrence
2000 swaps Destin Log for Freedom's
Ft Pierce Tribune
2000 buys Marco Island Eagle from NY Times
2000 buys Henderson (Kentucky) Gleaner from Belo
2002 pays US$49.5m for 70% of Shop at Home television
network
2004 pays US$184m for Summit America Television's five
tv stations and remaining 30% of Shop at Home
2004 acquires Great American Country (GAC) cable and satellite
television network from Jones Media Networks
2005 buys Colorado Daily in Boulder
2005 pays US$560m for Shopzilla
2005 closes Birmingham Post-Herald
2006 agrees to pay US$366m for price comparison service
uSwitch
2007 buys video and audio sharing site Pickle for US$4.7m
2007 buys cookery site Recipezaar for US$25m
2007 announces plan to split into two companies
2007 closes Cincinnati Post
2007 closes Kentucky Post
2008 closes Albuquerque Tribune
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