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.