Scripps Networks Interactive
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| Public | |
| Traded as |
NASDAQ: SNI S&P 500 Component |
| Industry |
Cable Television Interactive Media |
| Founded | July 1, 2008 |
| Headquarters | Knoxville, Tennessee, United States |
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Key people
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Kenneth W. Lowe (Chairman, President & CEO) Burton Jablin (President, Scripps Networks) |
| Products |
HGTV Food Network DIY Network Cooking Channel UKTV (Joint Venture) Great American Country Travel Channel TVN S.A |
| Revenue |
 US$ 2.5 billion (2013)
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US$ 958.5 million (2013)
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 US$ 683 million (2013)
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| Total assets |
US$ 4.4 billion (2013)
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| Total equity |
US$ 2.1 billion (2013)
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Number of employees
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2,200 (2013) |
| Website | www |
Scripps Networks Interactive is an American media company formed on July 1, 2008, when the E. W. Scripps Company spun off its cable television division as a publicly traded company. Since launching HGTV in 1994, Scripps Networks diversified into lifestyle media, developing relevant content for television, Internet, satellite radio, books, magazines, and on emerging media platforms.In addition to HGTV, its lifestyle media brands include Food Network, DIY Network, Cooking Channel, Travel Channel, Great American Country and ulive.
Scripps is headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee. The company has additional office locations in New York City; Los Angeles; Chicago; San Francisco; Chevy Chase, Maryland; Atlanta; Detroit; Nashville; Cincinnati; and offices in São Paulo (Brazil), London (UK) and Singapore.
Scripps Networks' Chairman, President and CEO is Kenneth W. Lowe, who founded HGTV in 1994.
Scripps Networks Interactive's roots began in 1993, when the E. W. Scripps Company announced it would launch a 24-hour cable network in the fall of 1994. On December 30, 1994 HGTV went on the air to 6.5 million homes in 50 markets.
In 1995, the official opening for HGTV’s new headquarters in Knoxville took place. The network reached into 10 million homes on November 1 of that year, launched in Canada and online with HGTV.com in 1996, and hit the 25 million subscriber mark in 1997.
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