E W Scripps Co

NASDAQ:SSP

The E.W.Scripps Co. engages in the television and newspaper publishing. The company is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio and currently employs 5,600 full-time employees. The firm segments include Local Media and Scripps Networks. Its Local Media segment includes its 61 local broadcast stations and their related digital operations. Its television station group includes approximately 18 ABC affiliates, 11 NBC affiliates, nine CBS affiliates and four FOX affiliates. The company also has approximately 12 CW affiliates - four on full power stations and eight on multicast; five independent stations and 10 additional low power stations. In its Scripps Networks division, it operates over nine news and entertainment networks, namely, ION, Bounce, Court TV, Defy TV, Grit, ION Mystery, Laff, Newsy and TrueReal. The firm serves audiences and businesses in its Local Media division through a portfolio of local television stations and their associated digital media products. The company also operates an investigative reporting newsroom in Washington, District of Columbia (D.C.)