Scripps Networks Interactive


Scripps nurtures talent incubator

Scripps Networks Interactive has created a talent incubation unit within its social and digital production division. Scripps Lifestyle Experts (SLE) will look to Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook and YouTube to find new talent that can become experts in home, food and travel, and for their respective HGTV, Food Network and Travel Channel verticals. SLE will sit […]

Welling exits Discovery for Scripps

Discovery Communications veteran Paul Welling has joined Scripps Networks Interactive to lead content efforts in the UK and EMEA. Welling has been with Discovery for nearly two decades, most recently as senior VP, international brand and franchise development for Discovery Networks International. He has also run channel portfolios in the UK, and Central and Eastern […]

Lifestyle trumps other genres, says Scripps

Lifestyle channel operator Scripps Networks Interactive says the types of shows on its channels drive higher engagement and a better commercial return than reality programming, sport or news. Scripps commissioned a study from Nielsen into the effectiveness of advertising around different genres of programming. It concluded that ads around lifestyle content can generate significantly higher […]

AMC poaches Dickie, rejigs international

Kevin Dickie is joining the international arm of AMC, and two other execs have been given new responsibilities in a rejig at the channel operator. Dickie (left) joins AMC Networks International this month and will take the newly-created role of senior VP, channels group, UK, Middle East and Africa, and Poland. In the UK the […]

Scripps expands distribution operation

Scripps Networks Interactive has hired Gerbrig Blanksma from Off the Fence and upped Elise Ching within its programme sales division. Blanksma will cover sales across the EMEA region and Ching (left) will be responsible for Asia. Scripps took sales in-house in 2014 – they had been with Passion – with distribution run by Hud Woodle, […]

Kwesé adds AMC and Scripps nets

New African pay TV platform Kwesé TV has struck deals with AMC Networks and Scripps Networks Interactive to boost its growing content line-up. Econet Media-owned Kwesé TV has struck a deal with AMC to provide a version of the AMC Channel on the platform bringing shows such as Fear the Walking Dead (pictured), Breaking Bad, […]

ProSieben, Scripps agree huge lifestyle deal

ProSiebenSat.1 and Scripps Networks Interactive have agreed a 1,200-hour programming deal that will see a raft of SNI shows go out on the German broadcaster’s channels. The deal covers factual, factual entertainment and lifestyle programming from SNI, which will air on branded blocks on the Sixx, ProSieben Maxx and Kabel Eins Doku nets in Germany. […]

Scripps names Asia boss

Scripps Networks Interactive has named Leena Singarajah as its Asia chief. She joined channels operator SNI in 2014 as head of distribution and ad sales, Asia Pacific, and becomes Singapore-based managing director for the company in the region. Singarajah fills the role vacated by Derek Chang, who was upped to head of international lifestyle channels at […]

Scripps int’l chief to take on TVN presidency

Scripps Networks Interactive has named Jim Samples as president of its Polish subsidiary TVN, with Scripps chairman and president Kenneth Lowe taking the role of chairman of the Warsaw-based media group. Samples has headed up TVN on an interim basis since the departure of Markus Tellenbach in July last year. He will now serve as […]

Scripps ditches Netflix content deal

Scripps Networks Interactive will not renew its distribution agreement with subscription video service Netflix. SNI president Burton Jablin revealed the US cable company’s intention to drop Netflix during an investor call that followed third quarter results, which saw TV ad revenues push numbers up. “We assessed the SVOD universe and have made the strategic decision […]