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Scripps Networks Interactive Names John Lansing EVP

Tuesday 05. August 2008 - John Lansing, who has led the growth of Scripps Networks since 2005, has been named executive vice president of parent company Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. (NYSE:SNI).

Lansing remains president of Scripps Networks. Previously senior vice president for Scripps Networks Interactive, Lansing will continue to be responsible for leading the company’s Lifestyle Media operating segment, which includes popular lifestyle television and Internet brands Food Network and HGTV.

“John has successfully led the continued growth of our largest and most profitable division,” said Kenneth W. Lowe, chairman, president and CEO of Scripps Networks Interactive. “John will continue to lead the growth strategies for expanding our dominant position in the food and shelter brands on TV and the Internet, extending our brands through creative and lucrative licensing and revenue-sharing partnerships, and exploring opportunities internationally to exploit our expertise in creating and delivering food, shelter and lifestyle content.”

Scripps Networks operates HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network, Fine Living Network and Great American Country, along with a growing portfolio of Internet businesses dedicated to the food and shelter categories. Foodnetwork.com is the number one Internet site in the “food” category, with RecipeZaar.com joining it in the top ten. HGTV.com and DIYnetwork.com are both rated in the top ten for Web sites in the “home” category.

Lansing, 51, who will continue to report to Lowe, has been with Scripps for 13 years including the period before Scripps Networks Interactive separated from The E.W. Scripps Company on July 1, 2008.

Before moving to Scripps Networks, Lansing had strategic and operating oversight responsibilities for the Scripps broadcast television station group, first as vice president of station operations and then as senior vice president/television.

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, and vice president and station manager at the Scripps station in Detroit, WXYZ-TV. Lansing also held news-director positions at WBBM-TV, Chicago, and WCCO-TV in Minneapolis.

Lansing studied marketing and business administration at Bellarmine University in Louisville, the University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky. He has served as a visiting faculty member at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Fla.