Scripps Broadcast TV Chief Tapped for Senior Role at Scripps Networks

Cincinnati, OH/January 12,  2004/Satnews/   John Lansing has been named executive vice president for Scripps Networks. His appointment is effective immediately. Lansing is being appointed to a newly created position as part of the company's ongoing strategy to strengthen and build on the success of its growing portfolio of national lifestyle television networks.

Lansing, 46, has had strategic and operating oversight responsibilities for the 10 Scripps broadcast television stations since 2000, first as vice president of station operations and then as senior vice president/television.  Under Lansing's leadership, the Scripps stations have launched a number of successful initiatives to help develop Scripps Networks brands, the most successful being "DIY Local" programming, which can now be viewed, not only in markets served by Scripps stations, but also in about 40 non-Scripps local television station markets nationwide. "DIY Local" programming has been successful in helping the company build the DIY brand ahead of its distribution on local cable television systems. Earlier this year, with Lansing's guidance, the Scripps-owned station in Detroit, WXYZ, assumed production responsibilities for the nationally syndicated show, Rebecca's Garden.

Before coming to the Scripps corporate office as vice president of station operations in 2000, Lansing had been vice president and general manager of the Scripps-owned television station in Cleveland, WEWS-TV. Lansing came to WEWS in 1997 from WXYZ, where he had served the previous two years as vice president and station manager.

Lansing's career in broadcasting began at the age of 17 when he worked as a news photographer for a local television station in Paducah, Ky. From there he went on to become the chief news photographer at WAVE-TV in Louisville, Ky., and two years later was named managing editor. In 1986, Lansing was named news director at WWMT-TV in Grand Rapids, Mich., and in 1988 was named assistant news director at KARE-TV in Minneapolis. Two years later he was named news director at the top-rated station in Minneapolis, WCCO-TV. In 1993, Lansing was promoted by CBS to become news director at WBBM-TV in Chicago.

Lansing is a 1995 recipient of the Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia University Award for news investigation and was named Gannett Television News Executive of the Year in 1989. He studied marketing and business administration at Bellarmine College in Louisville, the University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky.

Scripps Networks, operates Home & Garden Television, Food Network, the DIY - Do It Yourself Network and Fine Living.
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