Scripps Local Media, a privately owned entity and a tier 1 media tech buyer, is headquartered in the US and operates as a division of The E.W. Scripps Company. Founded in 1947, the company maintains a workforce of approximately 5950 employees and reported $1.3B in revenue as of 2025. The company specializes in broadcast television and radio, functioning as the regional broadcasting and community journalism division for its parent company. It operates approximately 60 television stations positioned across more than 40 distinct metropolitan markets in 22 states. Supporting a television-centric business model, the local media arm utilizes high-definition newsrooms, automated digital transmission arrays, and localized news gathering infrastructure to deliver investigative journalism, weather forecasting, and civic reporting to households nationwide.
The E.W. Scripps Company kicked off extensive coverage plans for America’s 250th birthday on June 12, 2026, announcing that its local and national media platforms would bring Americans together through storytelling, special programming, and community connection leading up to July 4. This followed an initial announcement on June 11, 2026, detailing these plans. Previously, on June 8, 2026, more than 500,000 DirecTV customers in central and eastern Kentucky, including the Lexington market, lost access to LEX18 and ABC36. This service interruption resulted from a contract dispute between DirecTV and E.W. Scripps Company and impacted 36 markets nationwide.
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Scripps Local Media offers 58 products in the media and telecoms services industry. Scripps Local Media's product portfolio comprises of broadcast television and radio.
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Scripps Local Media's revenues were over $1B in 2025. Caretta Research has split Scripps Local Media's revenue into 2 different product categories, the largest of which is local broadcaster advertising. For full access to Scripps Local Media's revenue breakdown subscribe to Caretta Portal.
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