Late last year when Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) finally announced the sale of its UK utility comparison shopping site uSwitch, we knew it was for a lowball price, and we guessed around $50 million, three years after it bought the site for $366 million. Turns out Forward Internet Group,…

E W Scripps, the newspaper and TV holding company, has decided to put its content and cartoons/comics licensing unit United Media on sale, it announced as part of its Q409 earnings results today. UM is responsible for licensing popular features such as “Peanuts” and “Dilbert”, among others, with the rationale…

Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) managed to return to profit in Q4, but the programmer reported continued weakness at its online properties. In addition to the profit swing, ad revenue at its Lifestyle Media segment was up 6.8 percent. At the Interactive Services segment, however, revenues were down 25 percent.…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q408	Net Inc. vs Q408
Scripps Networks Interactive	Release		6%	163%

* vs. Analysts' Estimates: Beat Met Missed

Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) and Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) have reached an agreement that paves the way for the return of the Food Network and HGTV programming to the cable operator’s system. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Scripps’ programming went dark just after after its contract with Cablevision…

No signs of movement in the contract spat between Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) and Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI), which means more than three million households are still sans HGTV or The Food Network 20 days into 2010. The companies have spoken several times—twice last week, according to Scripps. We “are…

Licensing deals for some Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) channels ended at midnight New Year’s Eve for Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) and Cablevision (NYSE: CVC). So why can Manhattan cable subs still see the Food Channel while their Long Island neighbors are blacked out? On the surface, it’s simple…

Fox viewers across the U.S. were able to get their Sugar fix without a blip now that News Corp (NYSE: NWS) and Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) have managed to agree on a new deal. No details as all involved try to pretend this was never a public discussion that…

Update: That “brief” extension turned into an all-nighter for *Time Warner* Cable, which is still negotiating with News Corp (NYSE: NWS) and Scripps on behalf of itself and private cable operator Bright House. Check our comments for a taste of what they face if deals can’t be reached and Fox,…

After nearly six months of searching for a buyer for UK comparison shopping site uSwitch, Scripps Network Interactive is selling the company to the Forward Internet Group. Terms of the sale weren’t disclosed, but it was likely much smaller than the $366 million price that Scripps bought it for in…

Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) CEO Ken Lowe is betting heavily on international growth over the next year. In a presentation at the UBS Media Week conference, Lowe ticked off some recent deals: last month, the company took a 69 percent stake Indian broadcaster NDTV; it struck a JV with…

Indian broadcaster NDTV Ltd and US-based Scripps Network Interactive today said they were forming a strategic alliance in the lifestyle broadcasting space in India. As part of the deal, Scripps will acquire 69 percent stake in NDTV Lifestyle Ltd, with the NDTV Group retaining the rest. Scripps will pay $55…

Mark May is a principal and senior internet and digital media research analyst at Needham & Company, LLC, a full-service growth-company investment bank. Ken Sonenclar’s Leading Voices piece on Thursday titled “Five Media Deals I’d Like To See Happen In 2010” was thoroughly thought-provoking. Here are my own thoughts around…

Profits at Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) rose 14 percent to $65.3 million in the third quarter, while total revenue were flat. The Cincinnati-based owner of cable TV networks Food Network and HGTV, said that the revenues in the Lifestyle segment, which includes those channels website ad sales, was up…

EW Scripps (NYSE: SSP), the newspaper and TV media company (not to be confused with its cable net sibling, Scripps Interactive), saw its net loss worsen in Q3 as revenues fell 19 percent. Much of the trouble centered on the loss of political advertising this year versus last year. While…

It’s official: Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) will acquire a 65 percent stake in the Travel Channel from Cox Communications. The deal works like this: the two companies form a joint venture; Cox puts in the Travel Channel, valued at $975 million; Scripps contributes $181 million in cash; the JV…

Rupert Murdoch knocked down at least one acquisition rumor—one he helped give life to at the News Corp annual meeting—and left one standing during the company’s fiscal Q1 earnings call. Speaking from Sydney, the chairman and CEO of News Corp (NYSE: NWS). said:  “We’re not interested in NBC as such…

News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) is now considered to be the favorite to win the Travel Channel auction, the FT reports, citing sources. Cox put a majority stake in the cable network up for sale in July. Back then—and as recently as last month—Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) was considered the…

[By Claire Atkinson, Broadcasting&Cable] At a recent investor conference, Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) CEO Ken Lowe addressed a frequently mentioned topic: corporate acquisitions and Scripps. Given Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Corp.’s reported play for NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), the popular speculation is that the Cincinnati-based company could be the next…

Since the living isn’t that fine these days, time to do a rethink: Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI), the parent of Food Network, among others, is closing down its Knoxville-based Fine Living Network, and morphing and rebranding it into an instructional cooking channel called, what else, Cooking Channel. The new…