Real Party in Interest

0007-EX-TU-2013 Text Documents

Scripps Media, Inc.

2013-02-08ELS_133356

                                                                  OET Experimental License WG2XIX
                                                          Involuntary Transfer of Control Application


                                      Real Party in Interest


       Scripps Media, Inc., licensee of WG2XIX, is controlled by The E.W. Scripps Company
(the “Company”), FRN # 0005075494. The Company, in turn, was controlled for many years by
the Edward W. Scripps Trust (the “Trust”), FRN # 0019939123.

        The Trust terminated by its terms upon the death of Robert P. Scripps, Jr., the last
measuring life of the Trust, on October 18, 2012. After the death of Robert P. Scripps, the
Trust’s three trustees continued as record holder of all the Trust’s voting shares in the
Company.

        On January 22, 2013, the Court of Common Pleas, Probate Division, Butler County,
Ohio (the “Probate Court”) entered an order (the “Order”) directing distribution of the Trust’s
shares in the Company to its beneficiaries as soon as practicable and immediately limiting the
voting authority of the Trustees with respect to the voting shares pending their distribution. (The
parties to this proceeding are bound by a protective order issued by the Probate Court that
seals pleadings and orders and limits disclosure with respect to the proceedings, but the
applicable terms of the Order are fully described in a Schedule 13D that the Company filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 24, 2013.)

        A voting agreement with respect to the Company’s voting stock exists among certain of
the Trust’s beneficiaries and other descendants of Edward W. Scripps (together the “Scripps
Family Shareholders”). In addition to enjoying certain voting rights set by the Order as of
January 22, the Scripps Family Shareholders, upon distribution of the Trust’s voting shares, will
control approximately 91.9% of the voting shares and 43.0% of the Company’s total equity.
However, none of the Scripps Family Shareholders will have a direct or beneficial interest in
voting shares that would constitute 10% or more of the voting shares controlled under the voting
agreement (nor 10% or more of the total voting stock in the Company). All the Scripps Family
Shareholders are U.S. citizens or trusts and have a business address at 334 Beechwood Road,
Suite 400, Fort Mitchell, Kentucky 41017.

       Applications to reflect this ownership change have been filed across the FCC’s various
databases (broadcast, ULS, International). To ensure that the FCC’s ownership records are
complete, this application for transfer of control for experimental station WG2XIX is the final
application to be filed.



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