Analysts are looking for media company E.W. Scripps to report a turnaround from a year ago when it releases its third quarter financial statement on Friday.
Scripps, the parent company of the Knoxville News Sentinel and the Memphis Commercial Appeal, is expected to report a profit of about 9 cents per share compared to a loss of 9 cents per share in the third quarter last year.
Revenues are projected to be up about 27 percent to $214 million for the quarter.
Increased political advertising helped E.W. Scripps swing to a second quarter profit of $5.4 million, or 9 cents per share, the media company said today.
The same period last year the company lost $2.2 million, or 4 cents per share.
Scripps is the parent company of the Knoxville News Sentinel and the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
Revenues for the quarter rose 18.5 percent to $216.9 million from $183 million in the second quarter of 2011.
Wall Street expects media company E.W. Scripps to report a profit of 17 cents per share and a continued decline in revenue for the 2011 fourth quarter.
The parent company of the Knoxville News Sentinel and the Memphis Commercial Appeal plans to release its latest earnings report on Friday.
Scripps beat analyst expectations in the third quarter after missing in the previous two quarters.
Looking ahead, the company projects a strong increase in television revenue in 2012 due to increased political advertising and the recent acquisition of nine TV stations from McGraw-Hill Broadcasting Co.
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Media company E.W. Scripps, parent of the News Sentinel, said it expects to see a sharp increase in TV revenue this year, while newspaper revenue should fall slightly.
Television revenue should jump 50 percent in 2012, due in part to increased political advertising and the recent acquisition of nine TV stations from McGraw-Hill Broadcasting Co., Cincinnati-based Scripps said in prepared remarks at the Noble Financial Equity Conference.
Tune in online this afternoon and watch my corporate boss ring the closing bell at the New York Stock Exhange.
Rich Boehne, president and CEO of E. W. Scripps, parent company of the News Sentinel, is scheduled to ring the bell at 3:59 p.m. to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the company trading its stock.
Asking celebrities and corporate execs to ring the opening and closing bells is a relative young NYSE tradition, but it is considered quite an honor in the corporate world. It’s also interesting to see who the company sends to stand with the designated bell ringer.
Cincinnati-based Scripps operates 14 daily and community newspapers and 10 broadcast TV stations.
Here’s a little history on the bell ringing ceremony from Investopedia.
Photo: In this file photo E. W. Scripps President and CEO Rich Boehne speaks during a ceremony to mark the opening of the Scripps Convergence Lab at the University of Tennessee on Friday, Jan. 28, 2010. (News Sentinel/Amy Smotherman Burgess)