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In 1988, the broadcasting division of the company started its own production company Scripps Howard Productions in order to produce and market television programs. [ 49 ] From 1990 to 1995, Scripps was a partner in the regional sports network SportSouth, along with Turner Broadcasting and Tele-Communications, Inc. ; in 1996 the network was sold ...
Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Co., 433 U.S. 562 (1977), was an important U.S. Supreme Court case concerning rights of publicity. [1] The Court held that the First and Fourteenth Amendments do not immunize the news media from civil liability when they broadcast a performer's entire act without his consent, and the Constitution does not prevent a state from requiring broadcasters to ...
Jack Rohe Howard (August 31, 1910 – March 22, 1998) was an American broadcasting executive. He was president of the E. W. Scripps Company from 1953 to 1976. [1]Born in Manhattan, the son of Roy W. Howard, a founder of United Press International, he attended Phillips Exeter Academy and in 1932 graduated from Yale.
Television station group owner E.W. Scripps is shutting down its 24-hour news channel on Nov. 15, another sign of a contraction in the TV news industry.
Lawrence A. Leser, president and CEO of The E.W. Scripps Company from 1985-1998, died Oct. 21. Leser, 89, also served as chairman of the board at Scripps from 1994-1999.
The eldest child of Robert Paine and Margaret Culbertson Scripps, Bob Scripps served as a director of The E. W. Scripps Company from 1949 until 1997, and was a long-time vice chairman of The ...
After going full-time with the end of ON TV, potential buyers expressed interest in acquiring channel 15. Cooperstein rebuffed a $22 million (equivalent to $54.6 million in 2023 [21]) bid from the Tribune Company but accepted a $30 million (equivalent to $74.5 million in 2023 [21]) offer from Scripps-Howard in 1984; the sale was finalized in 1985 after Scripps was required by the FCC to divest ...
Scripps Networks, LLC, formerly known as Katz Broadcasting, is an American specialized digital multicasting network media company and a division of the E. W. Scripps Company. The company owns (as of 2024) eight broadcast television networks , nine FAST streaming networks and a streaming service that each carry programming with specified formats ...