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The E.W. Scripps Company, usually shortened to Scripps, is a major media company behind numerous lifestyle cable networks, newspapers, broadcast television stations, interactive media, and licensing and syndication efforts. Scripps operates newspapers in 17 markets, 10 broadcast TV stations, five cable and satellite television networks and online search and comparison-shopping services. Its brands include HGTV, Food Network, and FINE LIVING, and it owns the comparison shopping services known as Shopzilla. Scripps started when media pioneer Edward W. Scripps decided to found a newspaper in 1878; he later decided to challenge the Associated Press in 1907 by forming United Press International. From there, the company grew larger and larger. Scripps eventually launched Charles Schulz's 'Peanuts' comic strip and TV stations such as WEWS in Cleveland and WCPO in Cincinnati. Scripps went public in 1988. Throughout the 1980s and 90s, Scripps acquired several online media companies such as Shopzilla and built new interactive media markets. Scripps is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, and is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol SSP.
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