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Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. is betting that food and travel are an ideal combination. The company behind the Food Network is snapping up a controlling stake in the Travel Channel, giving the cable network a value of nearly $1 billion.
E.W. Scripps said Thursday its third-quarter loss narrowed despite another decline in revenue. The company continues to trim costs to cope with the advertising slump pummeling the media industry.
Media company E.W. Scripps Co. said Monday it made a profit in the second quarter despite a decline in ad revenue, reversing a year-ago loss that was weighed by impairment charges.
The head of E.W. Scripps Co. said Tuesday that content remains a major focus for the media company as it moves through the tough economic times facing the industry.
Media company E.W. Scripps, which earlier this year shut down Denver's Rocky Mountain News, said Monday that weak advertising spending and a slew of charges led to a net loss in the first quarter.
Media company E.W. Scripps Co. said Friday it is laying off around 400 employees at its newspapers in a restructuring expected to save about $15 million a year, as it swung to a third-quarter loss in a weak advertising market.
E.W. Scripps says second-quarter profit fell 48 percent on a sharp revenue decline at its newspaper properties and costs related to splitting off its digital businesses.
E.W. Scripps Co. said Thursday its first-quarter profit rose 23 percent from the same period a year ago, mostly because of higher ratings and ad sales at its HGTV and Food Network.
A restructured E.W. Scripps Co. will emerge in 2008, one that its designated chief executive says can grow.
Media company E.W. Scripps, seeking to capitalize on its fast-growing cable and Internet-based businesses, said Tuesday it plans to split its stagnant newspaper business into a separate company.
Fine Living will become the Cooking ChannelWhen you're a cable network and you're only reaching 55 million households and want to reach twice that amount, what do you do? If you're Scripps Networks, you rebrand the channel and give it a new name. That's why Fine Living will become the Cooking Channel in 2010.
Tantalizing clues to the chemical origins of life : Nature NewsChemists in the United States have made an artificial DNA-like molecule that can change its sequence to bind to a DNA template without the help of enzymes. The findings could shed light on how molecules underpinning life were first able to emerge from a chemical soup.
No 'Burp' Accelerating Climate Change? Wetlands Likely Source Of Methane From Ancient Warming EventScienceDaily (Apr.
New Way of Producing Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Requires a Little SoakAn international team led by the Scripps Research Institute in California said on Thursday it is the safest method yet found to transform ordinary skin cells into what are called induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells. More Articles
Will Scripps Follow Tribune In Dropping AP?NEW YORK Just days after Tribune Co. revealed it had given its two-year notice to possibly drop the Associated Press following a recent new rate structure, another major newspaper chain indicated it is considering the same move and is negotiating with AP over rates.
Harvard's Cell `Makeover' May Spur Diabetes Therapy | Bloomberg.comIf the technique can be used safely in humans, it may one day provide a treatment for diabetes, which occurs when the body either can't produce, or else makes too little of, the insulin needed to process blood sugar.
Why Global Warming Maters To Las Vegas: By 2017 Water Shortages May Stop Power Generation At The Hoover DamThe largest man-made reservoir in North America and the source of 90 percent of Southern Nevada's water supply could be sucked dry by overuse and climate change in 13 years or less, a new study warns.
'Holy Grail' of Hearing: True Identity of Pivotal Hearing Structure Is Revealed"Knowing precisely the composition and configuration of the tip link, scientists can now explore how these proteins interact with other components to form the rest of the transduction machinery.
Climate Models Consistent With Ocean Warming Observations"Our analysis shows that the 2003-2005 'cooling' is largely an artifact of a systematic change in the observing system," said Krishna AchutaRao, previously of Livermore's Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI), now at the Indian Institute of Technology De …
If you ever want to suffer a massive blow to your intellectual ego, watch the Scripps National Spelling Bee. What these pre-pubescent middle schoolers can do is nothing short of amazing.
Marijuana may stave off Alzheimer's Good news for aging hippies: smoking pot may stave off Alzheimer's disease. New research shows that the active ingredient in marijuana may prevent the progression of the disease by preserving levels of an important neurotransmitter that allows the brain to function. Researcher …
Canada's spelling whiz looks forward to no more studyingThe teenager who recorded Canada's highest-ever ranking in a prestigious international spelling bee says she's looking forward to a less wordy life when she returns to her hometown of Tofield, Alta.
The national spelling bee was just won two minutes ago by Katharine--Kerry--Close, of New Jersey. She correctly spelled both 'kundalini' and 'ursprache' to take the title. Congratulations!
In anticipation for tonight's Scripps National Spelling Bee (sorry, non-US-viners), I've created my own Fantasy Spelling Pick'Em for our office pool. Attached are the rules, if you care to replicate in your own office. Please note that this is optimized for 4 players.
ScienceDaily: 'Accelerated Evolution' Converts RNA Enzyme To DNA Enzyme In VitroScientists may have an answer that would bridge the very large logical evolutionary leap between the RNA world, what is thought to be the first biological information-propogating molecules, to the more current DNA world.
New Class of Enzyme Inhibitors Block Replication of SARS VirusCould this be a new drug target in the fight against SARS?
How Sharks Stay WarmScientists now have direct evidence that the north Pacific salmon shark maintains its red muscle (RM) at 68-86 degrees Fahrenheit (F), much warmer than the 47 F water in which it lives.
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