Article: COOL FLURRIES BELIE HOT MEDIA SALES MARKET Scripps spends $184 million in cable, TV deal; other buy print.(E.W. Scripps Co. acquires Shop at Home)

A flurry of acquisitions fluttered through the newspaper business in recent days, much like snow fluttering to the ground on a cold December morning.

Some were large buys (the E.W. Scripps Co. bought out its partner in the Shop At Home Network) while others were smaller (Ogden Newspapers bought a 13,642-circulation daily in Lisbon, Ohio).

Here's a wrap-up of these recent transactions:

*Scripps buys out rest of Shop At Home: A little more than a year after buying a 70-percent controlling interest in the Shop At Home network, the E.W. Scripps Co. said last week it was buying the rest of the business.

Cincinnati-based Scripps said on ...

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