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                                                                    EXHIBIT 99.1

SCRIPPS STOCK SPLIT IS CONSUMMATED

For immediate release                                               (NYSE:SSP)
Sept. 10, 2004


CINCINNATI, Ohio - The two-for-one stock split authorized by the Board of
Directors of The E.W. Scripps Company on July 29 in the form of a 100 percent
stock dividend to shareholders of record at the close of business on Aug. 31 was
paid today. Scripps shareholders received one additional share for each share
held on Aug. 31. The company's Class A Common Shares, which are listed on the
New York Stock Exchange, will begin trading on a split-adjusted basis on
September 13, 2004. The stock split will not change the proportionate interest a
shareholder maintains in the company.

ABOUT SCRIPPS

The E.W. Scripps Company is a diverse media concern with interests in national
lifestyle television networks, newspaper publishing, broadcast television,
television retailing, interactive media and licensing and syndication. All of
the company's media businesses provide content and advertising services via the
Internet.

Scripps is organized into the following operating divisions.

SCRIPPS NETWORKS, which includes the company's growing portfolio of popular
lifestyle television networks. Scripps Networks brands include Home & Garden
Television, Food Network, DIY -- Do It Yourself Network and Fine Living. Scripps
Networks Web sites include FoodNetwork.com, HGTV.com, DIYnetwork.com and
fineliving.com. Scripps Networks programming can be seen in 86 countries.

SCRIPPS NEWSPAPERS, including daily and community newspapers in 17 markets and
the Washington-based Scripps Media Center, home to the Scripps Howard News
Service. Scripps newspapers include the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, the
Commercial Appeal in Memphis, the Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel and the
Ventura County (Calif.) Star.

SCRIPPS TELEVISION STATION GROUP, including six ABC-affiliated stations, three
NBC affiliates and one independent. Scripps operates broadcast television
stations in Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Phoenix, Tampa, Baltimore, Kansas
City, Mo., West Palm Beach, Fla., Tulsa, Okla., and Lawrence, Kan.

SHOP AT HOME NETWORK, the company's television retailing subsidiary, which
markets a growing range of consumer goods directly to television viewers and
visitors to the Shop At Home Web site, shopathometv.com. Shop At Home reaches
about 50 million full-time equivalent U.S. households, including 5 million
households via five Scripps-owned Shop At Home affiliated television stations.

UNITED MEDIA, a leading licensing and syndication company. United Media is the
worldwide licensing and syndication home of Peanuts, Dilbert, For Better or For
Worse and about 150 other features and characters.

