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For Your Information
- The E.W. Scripps Company is traded on the
New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "SSP" and is controlled
by the Scripps family through a trust established by the founder
in 1922.
- Scripps has approximately 7,355 full-time employees and 1,568
part-time employees.
- According to the Newspaper Association
of America, Scripps is the ninth largest newspaper publisher in the
United States.
- Revenues in 2001 were $1.4 billion. Approximately 51 percent
came from newspapers, 19 percent from broadcast television,
24 percent from category television and six percent from licensing
and other media.
- Nearly 250 sponsoring newspapers and 10
million youngsters take part in the annual Scripps Howard National
Spelling Bee.
- Scripps uses enough newsprint each
year to circle the equator approximately 90 times or travel to the
moon and back nearly five times.
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