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Timeline of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod

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• DigIndy
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• Indianapolis Power & Light
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• IPL Power

LCMS Secondary/Post-secondary Education

School name	Location	Original name(s)	Start date	Founded by	Transferred to LCMS	Closed date	Level	Refs	Comments
Concordia Seminary	St. Louis, Missouri	Concordia College	1839	C. F. W. Walther and three others	1850	N/A	Seminary		Founded in Perry County, Missouri; relocated to St. Louis in 1849
Concordia Theological Seminary	Fort Wayne, Indiana		1846	Frederick C. D. Wyneken with support from Wilhelm Loehe	1847	N/A	Seminary		Relocated to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1861, to Springfield, Illinois in 1875, and back to Fort Wayne in 1976
Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary	St. Catharines, Ontario		1976	LCMS			Seminary		Started as extension site for Concordia Theological Seminary; ownership transferred to the Lutheran Church–Canada in 1988
Concordia Lutheran Seminary	Edmonton, Alberta		1984	LCMS			Seminary		Ownership transferred to the Lutheran Church–Canada in 1988
Seminário Concórdia	Porto Alegre, Brazil		1903	LCMS			Seminary		Founded in Born Jesus, São Lourenço do Sul; moved to Porto Alegre in 1907; ownership transferred to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil in 1980
Seminario Concordia	José León Suárez, Buenos Aires, Argentina		1942	LCMS			Seminary		Founded in Barrio de Belgrano, Capital Federal; relocated to José León Suárez in 1948; ownership transferred to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Argentina in 1986
Concordia University Chicago	River Forest, Illinois	Addison Teachers Seminary (1864–1913) Concordia Teachers College (1913–1979) Concordia College (1979–1980) Concordia University River Forest (1980-2006)	1864	LCMS	N/A	N/A			Founded in Addison, Illinois; relocated to River Forest in 1913
Concordia University Wisconsin	Mequon, Wisconsin	Concordia College (1881–1989)	1881	Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota districts of the LCMS	1887	N/A			Founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; relocated to Mequon in 1982
Concordia University Nebraska	Seward, Nebraska	Evangelical Lutheran Teachers' Seminary (1894–1924) Concordia Teachers College (1924–1974) Concordia College (1974–1998)	1894	LCMS	N/A	N/A
Concordia University, St. Paul	St. Paul, Minnesota	Concordia High School (1893–1921) Concordia College (1921–1971)	1893	LCMS	N/A	N/A			High school separated from the college in 1968
Concordia University Texas	Austin, Texas	Lutheran Concordia College of Texas (1926–1965) Concordia Lutheran College (1965–1995) Concordia University at Austin (1995–2007)	1926	LCMS	N/A	N/A			Opened as a high school for boys; high school program discontinued in 1969
Concordia University Irvine	Irvine, California	Christ College Irvine (1976–1993)	1976	LCMS	N/A	N/A
Concordia University (Oregon)	Portland, Oregon	Concordia Academy (1905–c. 1950) Concordia College (c. 1950–1995)	1905	LCMS	N/A	2020			Originally a high school; junior college added by 1950; high school split off in 1977
Concordia College	Bronxville, New York	Concordia Progymnasium (1881–	1881	LCMS	N/A	2021
California Concordia College	Oakland, California		1906	California and Nevada District of the LCMS	1921	1973			Junior college added in 1918
Concordia College	Conover, North Carolina	Concordia High School (1878–1881)	1878	Members of the Evangelical Lutheran Tennessee Synod	1911	1935			Transferred to the English Synod in 1893, which merged into the LCMS in 1911; main building burned down in 1935
Concordia College Alabama	Selma, Alabama	Alabama Luther College (1922–1930s) Alabama Lutheran Academy (1930s–19?? Alabama Lutheran Academy and College 19??–1981)	1922	Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America	1967	2018			Synodical Conference was dissolved in 1967; Historically Black College
Concordia University Ann Arbor	Ann Arbor, Michigan	Concordia Lutheran Junior College (1963–1976) Concordia College (1976–2001)	1963	LCMS	N/A	N/A			Became a satellite campus of Concordia University Wisconsin in 2013
St. John's College	Winfield, Kansas		1893	John Peter Baden English Synod	1911	1986			English Synod merged into the LCMS in 1911
St. Paul's College	Concordia, Missouri		1883	Franz Julius Biltz, pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Concordia	1896	1986			St. Paul Lutheran High School continues to operate and is owned by the LCMS
Concordia College	Fort Wayne, Indiana		1839	C. F. W. Walther and three others	1859	1957			Founded in Perry County, Missouri with Concordia Seminary; relocated to St. Louis in 1847; separated from the seminary and relocated to Fort Wayne in 1861; high school department discontinued in 1951
Concordia Senior College	Fort Wayne, Indiana		1957	LCMS	N/A	1977			Concordia Theological Seminary moved to the campus in 1976
Immanuel Lutheran College	Greensboro, North Carolina		1903	Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America	N/A	1961			Founded in Concord, North Carolina to train Black pastors and teachers; relocated to Greensboro in 1905; closed before dissolution of Synodical Conference
Luther College	New Orleans, Louisiana		1903	Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America	N/A	1925			Founded to train Black pastors and teachers; seminary department closed in 1911; closed in 1925 before dissolution of Synodical Conference, with budgeted funds being used for Alabama Luther College

Info to be added to E. W. Scripps Company

Year Month/ Day Event Link

1878 Nov 02 Edward Willis Scripps (EWS), 24, started Cleveland Penny Press, with $10,000 borrowed from family members. Cleveland Penny Press

1880 Jul 31 Branched out to St. Louis, starting The Chronicle, a disaster from the start. He let it become a chronic invalid and drain him until it was sold in 1908. St. Louis Chronicle

1881 November EWS, bothered by bronchial ailment, took sister Ellen and began year-and-a-half tour of Europe and Mediterranean.

1883 Jan 01 EWS acquired control of Cincinnati Penny Post from his brother James, who had purchased it in 1881. Cincinnati Penny Post

1883 June EWS returned to United States from Europe.

1890 Sep 02 Changed name of Penny Post to The Cincinnati Post. The Cincinnati Post

1890 Sep 15 Started The Kentucky Post, across Ohio River from Cincinnati. The Kentucky Post

1890 December EWS visited California, bought desert acreage near San Diego and began eight-year construction of Miramar ranch.

1890 Fall Created Scripps-McRae League to run his newspapers.

1892 Jun 03 EWS acquired his first paper on Pacific Coast, The San Diego Sun. The San Diego Sun

1895 March Started the Los Angeles Record Los Angeles Record

1896 Dec 23 Acquired the Kansas City World. Kansas City World

1899 Feb 25 Started Seattle Star. Seattle Star

1899 Sep 21 Started the Akron Press. Akron Press

1900 Apr 11 Started the Chicago Press. Chicago Press

1902 Jun 02 Started Newspaper Enterprise Association feature service.

1902 Jun 07 Acquired the Des Moines News. Des Moines News

1902 Nov 07 Started the Spokane Press. Spokane Press

1903 Mar 21 Started the San Francisco News. San Francisco News

1903 Jun 08 Acquired Toledo News-Bee. Toledo News-Bee

1903 Dec 21 Started Tacoma Times. Tacoma Times

1904 Jul 02 Acquired Columbus Citizen. Columbus Citizen

1904 Nov 21 Started Sacramento Star. Sacramento Star

1905 Aug 31 Started Fresno Tribune. Fresno Tribune

1906 Apr 26 Started Denver Express. Denver Express

1906 Jul 02 Started Evansville Press. Evansville Press

1906 Jul 21 EWS purchased Publisher's Press; merged with Scripps- McRae Press Association and Scripps News Associations into United Press, though this did not become effective until June 21, 1907.

1906 Sep 01 Started Pueblo Sun. Pueblo Sun

1906 Sep 10 Started Terre Haute Post. Terre Haute Post

1906 Sep 18 Started Dallas Dispatch. Dallas Dispatch

1906 Sep 29 Started Portland News. Portland News

1906 Oct 01 Started Oklahoma News. Oklahoma News

1906 Nov 01 Started Memphis Press. Memphis Press

1906 Dec 01 Started Nashville Times. Nashville Times

1907 Aug 01 Acquired Berkeley Independent. Berkeley Independent

1908 Feb EWS "retired" turning over business management to son Jim, 22, but keeping hand in with his editors.

1909 May 03 Started Oakland Mail. Oakland Mail

1911 Sep 25 Started Houston Press. Houston Press

1911 Sep 28 Started Chicago Daybook. Chicago Daybook

1911 Started United Press (later known as United Press International, or UPI).

1912 May 11 Started Philadelphia News-Post. Philadelphia News-Post

1917 November EWS suffered stroke and went to Florida to recuperate and learned the pleasure of living on a yacht, which he did most of the rest of his life.

1917 EWS went to Washington to supervise coverage and editorial treatment of World War I. Jim became angry over EWS's insistence that Robert P. Scripps become editor-in-chief (and because of other business differences broke away from his father and used his and his associates' stock positions to break off five West Coast papers and the Dallas Dispatch).

1920 EWS withdrew from management of his many enterprises, and made Robert P. Scripps and Roy W. Howard responsible for editorial and business direction, respectively.

1921 Jan 21 Started Birmingham Post which later merged with the Herald to become the Birmingham Post-Herald. The paper ceased publication on Sept 23, 2005 when the economics of publishing the newspaper were no longer favorable. Birmingham Post Birmingham Herald Birmingham Post-Herald

1921 Jun 13 Started Norfolk Post. Norfolk Post

1921 Oct 03 Started Fort Worth Press. Fort Worth Press

1921 Nov 08 Started The Washington Daily News. Washington Daily News

1921 Nov 21 Started The Knoxville News. Knoxville News

1922 Feb 01 Acquired Youngstown Telegram. Youngstown Telegram

1922 May 27 Acquired Indianapolis Times. Indianapolis Times

1922 Jun 22 Scripps motto "Give light and the people will find their own way" first used. (Lighthouse emblem added in May 1927.)

1922 Aug 21 Started El Paso Post. El Paso Post

1922 Nov 03 Change of name from Scripps-McRae to Scripps Howard announced. Roy Wilson Howard (RWH) assumed joint editorial direction of papers with Robert P. Scripps.

1922 Nov 22 Started Baltimore Post. Baltimore Post

1922 Nov 23 The E.W. Scripps Trust was created.

1922 United Feature Service was organized (and a year later United Newspictures, forerunner of Acme Newspictures, was started).

1923 Jul 27 Acquired Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh Press

1923 Sep 24 Acquired New Mexico State Tribune. New Mexico State Tribune

1926 Mar 12 EWS died on his yacht Ohio in Monrovia Bay, Liberia, Africa and was buried at sea.

1926 Knoxville Sentinel purchased and merged into Knoxville News-Sentinel. Denver News and Times purchased and consolidated with Express into Rocky Mountain News. Memphis News-Scimitar purchased and merged with Press into Memphis Press-Scimitar. Knoxville Sentinel Denver News and Times Denver Express Rocky Mountain News Memphis News-Scimitar Memphis Press Memphis Press-Scimitar

1927 Feb 10 Acquired The New York Telegram. New York Telegram

1931 Feb 27 Acquired The World and merged with The New York Telegram into New York World Telegram. The World New York Telegram New York World Telegram

1933 Feb 18 Tribune and Journal combined business operations to form Albuquerque Publishing Company. Albuquergue Tribune Albuquerque Journal

1935 Aug 24 Scripps established Continental Radio. (Name was changed May 17, 1937 to Scripps Radio, Inc. and December 31, 1961 to Scripps Broadcasting Company.)

1935 Aug 31 Acquired radio station WFBE in Cincinnati and changed call letters to WCPO.

1935 Oct 11 Purchased radio station WNOK, Knoxville.

1938 Mar 02 Robert P. Scripps died aboard his yacht off Baja, Calif.

1938 Dec 31 Evansville Press combined business operations with Evansville Courier. Evansville Press Evansville Courier

1939 Dec 30 Press-Scimitar and Commercial Appeal merged into Memphis Publishing Company. Memphis Press-Scimitar Memphis Commercial Appear

1940 Scripps acquires the National Spelling Bee from the Louisville Courier-Journal, which began the event in 1925.

1947 Dec 17 WEWS-TV started in Cleveland.

1948 Dec 11 WMC-TV went on the air in Memphis.

1949 Jul 26 WCPO-TV went on the air in Cincinnati.

1953 Jan 01 Charles E. Scripps became chairman of the board of The E. W. Scripps Company.

1957 Oct 01 Knoxville News-Sentinel and Journal joint operation agreement became effective. Knoxville News-Sentinel Knoxville Journal

1958 May 24 International News Service and picture service facilities joined with United Press to form United Press International.

1960 Jan 23 Cleveland News purchased and merged with Cleveland Press. Cleveland News

1961 Dec 27 WPTV, West Palm Beach, Fla., acquired.

1962 Aug 15 Scripps Howard Foundation incorporated.

1964 Nov 20 Roy W. Howard died.

1965 Apr 12 Acquired Stuart (Fla.) News. Stuart News

1965 Jun 04 Acquired Hollywood (Fla.) Sun-Tattler. Hollywood Sun-Tattler

1966 Apr 24 New York World Telegram and Sun merged with Journal-American and Herald Tribune to become World Journal Tribune. After many difficulties the new paper was suspended May 5, 1967. New York World Telegram and Sun New York Journal-American New York Herald Tribune New York World Journal Tribune

1966 Dec 21 Started Tacoma Times. Tacoma Times

1970 Aug 12 Acquired San Juan Star. San Juan Star

1970 Dec 31 Purchased KTEW television in Tulsa, and changed name to KJRH on July 14, 1980.

1972 Jul 12 Washington Daily News sold to The Washington Star. Washington Daily News

1973 Dec 28 Purchased Fullerton Publishing Company (Daily News Tribune.) Daily News Tribune

1976 Jun 30 UPI broadcast advisory board formed.

1977 Jan 01 New York executive offices moved to Cincinnati.

1977 May 10 Acquired Grant County News and The Leader of Boone County, both newspapers in Kentucky Grant County News The Leader of Boone County

1977 Sep 23 Cincinnati Post and Enquirer agreed on joint operating agreement (effective Dec 6, 1979).

1977 Oct 28 Scripps Broadcasting purchased KMBA, Kansas City.

1978 Jun 14 United Media Enterprises, consolidation of Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) and United Feature Syndicate (UFS), became effective.

1978 Jul 01 Started Campbell County (Ky.) News. Campbell County News

1978 Oct 01 Purchased weeklies of Southern California Publishing Company, Pico Press, Inc., and San Gabriel Valley Publications. Southern California Publishing Company Pico Press, Inc. San Gabriel Valley Publications

1978 Nov 01 Purchased web press establishment in Louisville.

1979 Mar 01 Purchased principal weeklies in Louisville, Jeffersonian, The Voice, and Reporter. In March 1980 acquired Southwest Advertiser and changed name to Southwest News.

1979 Sep 16 $10 million UPI Technical Systems Center opened in Dallas.

1979 Nov 01 Purchased Kentucky Standard. Kentucky Standard

1980 Feb 01 Acquired Cordovan Corporation, publishers of books, magazines and business newspapers.

1980 Oct 31 The Cleveland Press, 102 years after founding and a decade of serious financial straits, sold to a Cleveland industrialist.

1981 Apr 28 Scripps's first experiment with electronic distribution took place in Evansville, when news briefs from The Press could be seen in 30,000 homes via cable television.

1981 Sep 09 Scripps Cable Service buys cable systems serving 12,500 subscribers in Lake County, Fla.

1981 April Scripps purchases two Portland, Ore., radio stations, KUPL-AM/FM

1982 United Media reorganzied; "Garfield" copyrights and syndication rights sold to cartoon's creator, Jim Davis, for $32 million.

1982 Streamlined corporate structure by acquiring the remaining 14 percent of Scripps Broadcasting, which had been a publicly traded subsidiary.

1982 HGTV goes on the air.

1982 Cinetel acquired.

1982 February Purchased Jupiter (Fla.) Courier-Journal, which publishes three times weekly and has paid circulation of 6,000 Jupiter Courier-Journal

1982 October The Bremerton Sun adds a Sunday edition

1984 Jan 01 Cordovan Business Journals changes name to Scripps Howard Business Journals; there are 12 journals in the group.

1984 Jan 06 Scripps purchases weekly newspapers in Kentucky - The Pioneer News, circulation 6,000; The Mt. Washington Star, circulation 2,000. The Pioneer News The Mt. Washington Star

1984 Mar 01 The Stuart News becomes a morning publication and adds a Sunday edition.

1984 May 22 Ground is broken for E. W. Scripps Hall at Ohio University.

1985 Nov 01 Company acquires Kartes Video, nation's leading video cassette distribution company.

1985 Dec 31 Columbus Citizen-Journal closed. Columbus Citizen-Journal

1985 April Company introduces redesigned lighthouse logo and new identity program.

1985 July Lawrence A. Leser elected president and chief executive officer, succeeding Edward W. Estlow.

1985 March KNXV-TV in Phoenix acquired.

1985 September Scripps Broadcasting celebrates 50th anniversary with New York City extravaganza.

1986 April Intentions to merge John P. Scripps Newspaper Group into Scripps announced.

1986 December Scripps Business Journals merge with American City Business Journals; Scripps receives $24 million in stock transaction.

1986 December Medart to purchase Berkley Small.

1986 January Scripps sells Ann Arbor Cablevision.

1986 March WXYZ-TV in Detroit and WFTS-TV in Tampa join Scripps Howard Broadcasting.

1986 March Scripps and Tele-Communications Inc. reach agreement whereby TCI has 50 percent of its partnership redeemed.

1986 May McCaw Cellular Communications sold.

1986 October Naples Daily News becomes company's 21st daily newspaper. Naples Daily News

1986 September Scripps Broadcasting sells interests in Cablevision Systems Corp.

1986 September Evansville Press sold; Evansville Courier purchased. Evansville Press Evansville Courier

1986 September Rocky Mountain News Business Journal sold. Rocky Mountain News Business Journal

1987 Scripps sells Canton (Ohio) Free Press; Landmark Community Newspapers and Southern California Publishing Company; also interest in Connecticut cable system; SCW and Youngstown unit of Consumer Communications Services . Canton Free Press Landmark Community Newspapers Southern California Publishing Company

1988 Jun 28 The E. W. Scripps Company makes its initial stock offering .

1989 Fall The E. W. Scripps Company purchases stock in John P. Scripps Newspaper Group for $39.6 million from estate of John P. Scripps.

1989 March Hollywood (Fla.) Sun-Tattler sold Hollywood Sun-Tattler

1990 Mar 07 Class A Common Stock now traded on the New York Stock Exchange under symbol "SSP."

1990 Apr 02 Lawsuit against the company by Gillett Broadcasting settled; provides for company to purchase WMAR-TV in Baltimore for $125 million .

1990 Jun 08 Steps taken to dissolve joint operating agreement with Persis Corporation, publisher of The Knoxville Journal, effective Dec

1990 Dec 31 Persis closes Knoxville Journal in exchange for $40 million in lieu of distributions it would have received from company had joint operations continued through 2005.

1992 June Pittsburgh Press sold; The Monterey County (Calif.) Herald acquired Pittsburgh Press Monterey County Herald

1992 March Company announces plans to sell radio stations.

1993 Apr 24 Tulare (Ca.) Advance-Register sold to Gannett Corp. Tulare Advance-Register

1993 Created Home & Garden Television (HGTV), a 24-hour cable network.

1993 San Juan Star sold to Santa Rita Acquisitions Inc. (Gerry Anglo) San Juan Star

1995 February Watsonville (Calif.) Register-Pajaronian newspaper sold to New Media Corp. Watsonville Register-Pajaronian

1996 Jun 01 William R. Burleigh becomes president and chief executive officer; Lawrence A. Leser continues as chairman of the board.

1996 Vero Beach Press Journal acquired. Vero Beach Press Journal

1996 Company merges Scripps Howard Cable into Comcast Corporation through transaction that delivered $1.59 billion in value, tax-free, directly to Scripps Howard shareholders.

1996 New Media unit established in Cincinnati.

1996 December Decision made to expand Category Television franchise: Home & Garden Television announces plans for related businesses, including radio and business-to-business networks.

1996 June Scripps Ventures launched within United Media

1997 Controlling interest of Food Network acquired from A.H. Belo.

1997 August Boulder Daily Camera acquired in swap for Monterey County Herald and San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune. Boulder Daily Camera Monterey County Herald San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune

1997 December Los Angeles-based Scripps Howard Productions unit sold; nonfiction unit in Knoxville, Cinetel Productions, to be expanded and renamed Scripps Productions.

1997 October Corpus Christi Caller-Times, San Angelo Standard Times, Wichita Falls Times Record News, Abilene Reporter-News and the Plano Star Courier, all in Texas, and the Anderson Independent-Mail in South Carolina, acquired from Harte-Hanks Commmunications.

1998 DIY--Do It Yourself network debuts on air on the digital tier.

1998 February Scripps, Texas newspaper groups create online classified alliance.

1998 January Scripps joins consortium to acquire AdOne, an Internet classified network.

1998 May President & CEO William R. Burleigh named chairman of the board as Lawrence A. Leser retired.

1998 September Second venture fund, Scripps Ventures II, formed.

2000 Kenneth W. Lowe named president, chief operating officer and a director of the company.

2000 Four Scripps Web sites join Knightridder.com's Real Cities network.

2000 April The Ft. Pierce (Fla.) Tribune, acquired in swap for The Destin (Fla.) Log. Ft. Pierce Tribune The Destin Log

2000 January Scripps Networks restructured leadership and formed New Ventures group.

2000 June Plans for fourth cable network, Fine Living, announced.

2000 March Acquisition of independent KMCI, Lawrence, Kan., completed.

2000 May Scripps and Media NewsGroup, on behalf of the Denver Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post, submit a Joint Operating Agreement application to the Attorney General to form the Denver Newspaper Agency.

2000 November The Gleaner (Henderson, Ky.) acquired. Henderson Gleaner

2000 October Marco Island (Fla.) Eagle acquired. Marco Island Eagle

2000 September William R. Burleigh retires as CEO; continues as chairman of the board.

2000 September Kenneth W. Lowe named CEO of The E. W. Scripps Company.

2001 January Attorney General Janet Reno approved the joint operating agreement between Scripps and MediaNews Group in Denver.

2002 Mar 28 Company creates Media Procurement Services, Inc. a subsidiary company, to provide newsprint management and buying services for its own newspapers and other newspaper publishing customers.

2002 Sep 23 The Scripps Howard Foundation and Hampton University in Virginia, in partnership to increase workplace diversity in the nation’s media, open the Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications.

2002 Oct 14 After a successful video-on-demand trial in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, Scripps Networks and Time Warner Cable expand their video-on-demand agreement to offer Scripps Networks on-demand programming in more than 30 Time Warner Cable markets across the country.

2002 Oct 31 Company acquires controlling interest of the Shop at Home television retailing network

2002 March FINE LIVING launched.

2003 Oct 23 Kenneth W. Lowe, president and chief executive officer, celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse and pop culture icon, Snoopy of “Peanuts” fame, preside over the opening bell ceremony at the New York Stock Exchange in observation of the company’s 125th anniversary

2003 Dec 03 Company establishes the Scripps Academy for Hispanic Journalists, a training and education program designed to help early-career Hispanic journalists develop the skills they need to succeed in daily newspaper careers.

2004 Apr 01 Company’s Washington, D.C. bureau will be known as the Scripps Media Center to recognize its new role producing magazines, special sections and other innovative products in addition to reporting the news.

2004 Apr 14 Company acquires Summit America Television Inc., which includes Summit’s 30 percent minority interest in the Shop at Home television retailing network and Summit’s five Shop at Home-affiliated broadcast television stations.

2004 Nov 17 Company acquires the Great American Country (GAC) cable and satellite television network, a 24-hour country music video network distributed nationwide to about 34 million Nielsen rated households, from Jones Media Networks, Ltd.

2005 Jan 12 Scripps Networks, a pioneer in the delivery of shelter-related information, launches HGTVPro.com, the first video-rich, professional-grade information online network for the building industry.

2005 Jun 27 Company acquires Shopzilla, a leading online comparison shopping service and the online BizRate consumer feedback network.

2005 Sep 23 The Birmingham Post-Herald ceases publication due to unfavorable publishing economics. Birmingham Post-Herald

2005 Sep 30 Company acquires the Colorado Daily in Boulder Colorado Daily

2006 Jun 21 Jewelry Television buys the cable network assets of Shop At Home television.

2006 Sep 26 Scripps sells the five broadcast television stations affiliated with Shop At Home for $170 million.

2007 Dec 31 The Cincinnati Post and The Kentucky Post publish their final editions as the JOA with The Cincinnati Enquirer expires.

2008 Jul 01 The company’s national and global businesses are spun off in a tax-free transaction. For every share they own, Scripps shareholders receive one share of stock in the new company, Scripps Networks Interactive. The assets that remain with The E. W. Scripps Company include 10 television stations in nine markets, daily newspapers in 15 markets, and the licensing and syndication businesses of United Media.

2010 Apr 27 Announced the sale of United Media's licensing operations to Iconix Brand Group