Welcome to the Scripps Networks Media Center

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for each Scripps Networks brand.

Scripps Networks is comprised of the lifestyle television brands HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network, Fine Living Network (FLN) and country music network Great American Country (GAC). Scripps is the dominant media and marketing company in the home, food and lifestyle categories, developing content for television, the Internet, satellite radio, books, magazines, and emerging media platforms.

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Scripps Networks Interactive Expands to India

Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. will acquire a majority stake in NDTV Good Times, India's top-ranked English-language lifestyle television service

Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. (NYSE: SNI) will expand into India by entering into a strategic partnership with the country’s leading broadcaster, NDTV Group.

In addition to operating NDTV Good Times, Scripps Networks Interactive and NDTV Group are contemplating the eventual launch of other lifestyle television channels through the NDTV Lifestyle partnership.
 

Food Network UK is On the Air
Food Network UK launched officially on Nov. 9, 2009

At 11am London time on Nov. 9, Food Network UK signed on the air with a special Chefography of Food Network followed by an episode featuring the famed British chef Nigella Lawson. The new network is available through the BSkyB satellite system and launches into 10 million British households. Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. has identified international expansion as one of its key growth strategies and will launch Food Network in Europe, Africa and the Middle East through a joint venture with Chello Zone.  See full details here.

 

 

Scripps Networks Interactive to Buy
Controlling Interest in Travel Channel

Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. (NYSE: SNI), owner and operator of the Food Network and HGTV lifestyle television networks, will enter into a joint venture with Cox Communications Inc. by which it will acquire a controlling interest in the Travel Channel. The Travel Channel transaction is expected to be completed by or before January 2010.

 

 

Scripps Networks Again Named
One of Cable's Top Employers
Scripps Networks has been named to CableFAX The Magazine's Top Places to Work in Cable for three straight years

CableFAX The Magazine cited Scripps Networks as one of its Top Ten Places to Work in Cable for the third consecutive year. "We like Scripps’ 'core values': shared responsibility and promotion of work/life balance. Especially that last core value," the magazine writes in its November 2009 issue.

 

 

 

Scripps Networks Taps Food Vet Michael Smith 
GM of New Cooking Channel 
Michael Smith, General Manager, Cooking Channel

Scripps Networks Interactive is drawing from its reservoir of talent at
Food Network to begin building its second brand in the food genre, with the company naming Michael Smith as general manager of the new
Cooking Channel. Smith, who has guided Food Network’s creative and brand strategies for the last 10 years, most recently served as senior vice president of marketing for the network during its rapid rise to top 10 stature.
 

 

Ad Age Names Food Network Magazine
A-List Magazine Launch of the Year
Food Network Magazine named magazine launch of the year by Ad Age

Less than a year after its launch, Food Network Magazine is already the second-largest 'foodie' book, according to Ad Age, which names Food Network Magazine the most successful "A-List" magazine launch of the year. Read more about this story here, along with background information on the project in partnership with Hearst Magazines.

 

 

America's Coolest Tool Fetches $10k for Winner of DIY Network's Inventor's Challenge   

The "Speed Read" is the winning invention in the 2009 DIY Network Cool Tools: Inventor's Challenge.

Jeff Burns may have the coolest undiscovered tool in America…until now. Burns won DIY Network’s Cool Tools: Inventor’s Challenge. Judges chose Burns' SpeedRead, a unique modification to the common tape measure. See the one-hour special Nov. 26 at 8 p.m. during DIY Network’s annual Cool Tools Holiday Blitz Marathon, a four-day programming event hosted by tool expert Chris Grundy and featuring new episodes of DIY Network's popular primetime franchise, Cool Tools as well as three new specials.