Oklahoma Gazette / Tierra Media Inc. All rights reserved. [36] On May 22, 2018, Scripps announced that it was changing its common stock listing from the New York Stock Exchange to Nasdaq, which occurred on June 4, 2018. NBC News Wall Street Journal Agence France-Presse MSNBC Bloomberg BNA Washington Examiner Univision, Fox News CBS News Radio AP Radio Foreign Pool Time Yahoo!

owned by Griffin Communications: KBEZ 92.9: KHTT 106.9: KVOO-FM 98.5: KXBL 99.5: Portland, Oregon: KUPL-970: KUFO, owned by Alpha Media: KUPL-FM 98.7: owned by Alpha Media Knoxville: WNOX 990: WNML, owned by Cumulus Media: WCYQ 100.3: owned by SummitMedia WKHT 104.5: WNOX 93.1: WWST 102.1: Memphis: WMPS 680: WMFS, owned by Entercom WMC 790: owned by Entercom WMC … Scripps also previously owned the Shop at Home Network from 2000 until 2006. The Seattle Times reports that KOMO laid off nearly 20 employees after Sinclair’s purchase in 2013. The changes were made to allow KOTV in Tulsa and the digital signal of its sister station KWTV channel 9 in Oklahoma City on 9.2 the ability to carry special programming without interrupting regularly scheduled programming on its main broadcast channels, according to press information.

It also owns: KVSP-FM “Power 103.5” and KRMP AM and FM in OKC, along with 14 other radio stations broadcasting R&B/hip-hop, gospel, classic rock, jazz, sports, country and news/talk throughout Oklahoma, Arkansas and Georgia. "United Feature Syndicate," in, "United Feature Syndicate Buys Metropolitan Service From Elser: Both Firms Will Retain Separate Identities, With Elser Remaining as Vice-President — Monte Bourjaily to Direct Both Organizations,", the Youngstown Vindicator Printing Company, "SSP Profile & Executives – EW Scripps Co – Bloomberg", "Press Releases | The E.W. The paper's roots trace back to 1880; it was acquired by Scripps' antecedent, the Scripps-McRae League, in 1906.

You won’t find anywhere else quite like it. So what happens when a long-trusted local news station can no longer be counted on as purely local? People want to be involved in their communities.

The dynamic of union and non-union photographers comes into question with pending acquisition of KCPQ, which staffs non-union employees. You have permission to edit this article. On September 12, 2011, Scripps partnered with Cox Media Group and Raycom Media to launch Right This Minute, a viral video program. In early November 1922, the Scripps-McRae League was renamed Scripps-Howard Newspapers to recognize company executive Roy W. Both Johnson and Meirick said that local television news consumption is higher among viewers over the age of 50, which also have the highest turnout at the voting booth. ), Scripps made its first foray into broadcasting in 1935, forming a company called Continental Radio and buying radio stations WCPO in Cincinnati and WNOX in Knoxville. [3], In 1894, Scripps and his half-brother, George H. Scripps, organized their various papers into the first modern newspaper chain. Cox is also launching its Music Choice channels in HD on April 12. It also owns: In addition to these two stations, SBG owns and operates 171 stations throughout the U.S.; this number does not reflect the stations it hopes to acquire from Tribune. Under a filing to the FCC, Sinclair officials acknowledged they might need to divest in 10 markets where Sinclair and Tribune both own local TV stations. It also owns: sister station KOTV Channel 6 and KQCW in Tulsa, along with KSBI in OKC and the Radio Oklahoma Network. [54], On March 20, 2019, Scripps announced that it would acquire eight of the 21 (initially 19[55]) stations being divested as part of Nexstar Media Group's $580 million (USD) acquisition of Tribune Media. Tags: Metro, ABC, Ajit Pai, Boris Epshteyn, broadcast news, CBS, CNN, David Griffin, david smith, Federal Communications Commission, Fox News, Freedom 43, griffin communications, HBO, John Oliver, journalism, KAUT, KAUT-TV, kfor, KFOR-TV, KOCB-TV, KOCO, KOKH-TV, KWTV, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, msnbc, national review, NBC, Oklahoma's News 4, Patrick Meirick, Public Knowledge, Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., television, Tribune Media Co., University of Oklahoma, Yosef Getachew, © 2020

Three and a half years ago, in a much different time, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a public notice for a new regulation, one that was designed to maintain an even playing field for ownership of local television stations. It also owns: As a property of Retirement Systems of Alabama, which administrates the pension fund for state employees, CNHI owns over 120 small-distribution daily and weekly newspapers throughout the U.S. Other Oklahoma newspapers include Enid News & Eagle, Muskogee Phoenix, Stillwater News Press, Pauls Valley Daily Democrat and Tahlequah Daily Press. As reported by TheStreet.com, Smith said Trump’s win presented a “really serious opportunity to seek complete deregulation in the broadcast industry.”. “The concentration of media under a handful of owners allows stations to save money by pooling resources,” said Tyler Johnson, an associate political science professor at the University of Oklahoma. “You might encounter increasing sharing and less original content being developed, which would mean less overall public service to the market.”. Both were part of an approach for "homegrown" programming—programming created by Scripps. Concerned that media corporations were engaging in anti-competitive practices at the local level, the FCC stated in the notice that whenever a company tried to accumulate multiple stations in any given market and consolidate their operations, it would “closely scrutinize any application that proposes that two (or more) stations in the same market” would share facilities and employees or use its marketplace power to sell joint advertising. It starts with David and Kirsten Griffin of Oklahoma City and John and Ashley Griffin of Tulsa, local owners with deep roots and commitment to Oklahoma. The organization is concerned about the potential merger for a number of reasons, including what it fears would be the company’s excessive hold on local news markets across the country and correlated concerns about the effect it would have on the price of cable subscriptions. Scripps also closed properties in Memphis, Columbus, Thousand Oaks and El Paso throughout the 1980s and 1990s, while selling the Pittsburgh Press in 1992. REPRODUCTION OF CONTENT IN ANY MANNER WITHOUT PERMISSION IS PROHIBITED. If the Tribune deal goes through, Sinclair would acquire NBC affiliate KFOR-TV, “Oklahoma’s News 4,” which recently completed an extensive rebuild of its studio and weather center, as well as its sister station, KAUT-TV, “Freedom 43.”. Opponents believe the deal could hurt media competition and consumers. Original Print Headline: Griffin, Cox communications change channels. It also owns: Anschutz Corp. owns, among other properties, Regal Entertainment Group (over 500 theaters in 42 states); San Francisco Examiner; The Weekly Standard; Examiner.com; Walden Media; the Los Angeles Lakers, the Los Angeles Clippers and Major League Soccer teams the Los Angeles Galaxy, the Chicago Fire and the Colorado Rapids; Staples Center in Los Angeles; London’s The O2 arena; Barclays Center in Brooklyn; the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai; and AEG Live, which produces, among other events, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Griffin, which owns Tulsa's CBS affiliate KOTV channel 6 … Scripps, Journal Merging Broadcast Ops", "Journal, Scripps shareholders OK transaction; closing expected by early April", "Scripps, Journal Communications Complete Merger And Spinoff", "Demand Media Sells Cracked Business to The E.W. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. (A number of media companies, including the New York Times Company and the Washington Post organization, are governed by this system so that the descendants of the company's founders can keep control of the company. [14], United Feature Syndicate was formed in 1919 as a division of UP to distribute editorial columns, features and comic strips, and became a dominant player in the syndication market in the fall of 1931 thanks to Scripps' acquisition of the New York World, which controlled the Pulitzer company's syndication arms, Press Publishing Co. and World Feature Service. On July 30, 2014, Scripps and Journal Communications announced that the two companies would merge and spin-off their newspaper assets. Scripps created the United Press news agency in 1907 by uniting three smaller syndicates and controlled it until a 1958 merger with William Randolph Hearst's smaller competing agency, INS, to form United Press International.

The Sinclair-Tribune deal also raises the question on local television ownership rules, which limit station owners from owning more than one of the top four television licenses in a market. With the Hearst Corporation as a minority partner, UPI continued under Scripps management until it was sold off in 1982. What happens after that rough landing, and the crew emerges from the wormhole. Founded in 1899. The new over-the-air (doesn't require cable or satellite to receive signal) digital lineups for Griffin channels in Tulsa will be: 6.1, KOTV; 6.2, Tulsa CW; 6.3, News on 6 Now (formerly NewsNow53), 19.1, Tulsa CW and 19.2, This-TV. “This is a local issue,” he said, “and those local stations should be focused on what the community needs.”. “There is a claim to be made that ‘we’re more local than someone else.’”. In 1998, Sinclair bought Oklahoma City’s Fox affiliate, KOKH-TV Channel 25 — two years after it purchased its WB (now CW) station, KOCB-TV Channel 34. Papers in Indianapolis, Washington, Houston and Fort Worth were closed in the 1960s and 1970s, and the former flagship Cleveland Press was sold in 1980.

Folded 55 days prior to its 150th anniversary of publication. It also owns: 30 television stations, including network affiliates in Boston; Pittsburgh; Kansas City, Missouri; and Cincinnati. Specifically, the expansion of Sinclair has led to speculation that the company could consolidate newsrooms in markets with more than one station.

That’s a question viewers across the country will have to answer for themselves if the Sinclair merger gets approved. “If Donald Trump is as deregulatory as he suggests he is, to wipe away regulations, we’re going to be the first industry in line to say, ‘We are the most over-regulated industry that exists in the United States,’” he said. [49] In June 2018, Griffin Communications reached a deal to buy the Scripps Tulsa radio cluster. “One owner with four stations might be able to drive a bargain; advertise on all four with one rate and it becomes something that resembles a one-stop shop,” said Patrick Meirick, director of University of Oklahoma’s Political Communication Center. Owner: Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. (CNHI). Advertisers could get airtime on KOKH and KFOR as well as Freedom 43 and CW 34 with a single ad purchase. The E. W. Scripps Company was a newspaper company founded on November 2, 1878, when Edward Willis Scripps published the first issue of the Cleveland Penny Press. The final competition is in Washington, DC, and it is broadcast on ESPN and ABC. “Our strategy is to serve Oklahoma, and that’s it,” Griffin said. Oklahoma City is one of the markets the company might be forced to sell to comply with FCC rules. News Dallas Morning News, CBS News Bloomberg News McClatchy Washington Times Sirius XM Salem Radio Globe/Roll Call, AP NPR AURN The Hill Regionals Newsmax CBN, ABC News Washington Post Politico Fox News Radio CSM/NY Post Daily Mail BBC/OAN, Reuters NY Times Chicago Tribune VOA RealClearPolitics HuffPost/NY Daily News BuzzFeed/Daily Beast, CNN USA Today ABC News Radio National Journal Al Jazeera/PBS Westwood One Financial Times/Guardian, sorted by primary channel network affiliations, Booker, M. Keith. Sinclair’s involvement in Seattle has become the subject of pieces on the aforementioned Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and The New York Times, the latter of which cited multiple KOMO employees who said they enacted their own form of rebellion against their parent company by airing the “must-run” segments at times with low viewership or leading into an advertisement. Its portfolio is the most diverse in the industry—in terms of market sizes, from New York City to Helena, Montana.[40].