the e.w. scripps company serves audiences and businesses through a growing portfolio of television, radio and digital media brands. scripps is one of the nation’s largest independent tv station owners, with 33 television stations in 24 markets and a reach of nearly one in five u.s. households. it also owns 34 radio stations in eight markets. scripps also runs an expanding collection of local and national digital journalism and information businesses, including podcast industry leader midroll media, over-the-top video news service newsy and weather app developer weathersphere. scripps also produces television shows including the list and the now, runs an award-winning investigative reporting newsroom in washington, d.c., and serves as the long-time steward of the nation’s largest, most successful and longest-running educational program, the scripps national spelling bee. founded in 1878, scripps has held for decades to the motto, “give light and the people will find their own way.”