Yes, E.W. Scripps Co. owns radio stations.
For President/CEO Rich Boehne, it is the company’s broadcast TV division that represents its “core business.”
“We make most of our money on broadcast TV,” Boehme told attendees of the 44th Annual Global Media and Communications Conference in New York at a Tuesday afternoon session.
Thus, the company’s radio properties got zero attention while Boehne and SVP/Television Brian Lawlor offered attendees several key reasons why E.W. Scripps loves the television business.