Frank Gardner
Senior Vice President, The E. W. Scripps Company & Chairman, Scripps Networks

As a senior vice president for The E. W. Scripps Company and as chairman of Scripps Networks, Frank Gardner, 62, is responsible for strategic oversight of the company's national television networks - Home & Garden Television, Food Network and DIY - Do It Yourself Network. He also oversees the launch of new national network brands and other Scripps Networks new ventures, including last year's launch of the newest Scripps Networks brand - Fine Living.

Gardner was senior vice president / interactive media from April of 2000 through the end of 2001 and had been senior vice president/ television for Scripps since 1993. During that time he oversaw the launch and rapid growth of Home & Garden Television, the acquisition of the Food Network and the 1999 launch Do It Yourself, an interactive television and Internet network.

After reporting jobs early in his career in Memphis, Atlanta and New York, Gardner spent several years as news director at CBS-owned stations in Chicago and New York. Following a stint as general manager at KCBS, Gardner joined Scripps, where he was general manager of WCPO-TV in Cincinnati prior to joining the Scripps corporate team.

Gardner received a degree in journalism from Memphis State University.