Local 54 Members Among Emmy Nominees
May 9, 2012
KGTV picked up 16 Emmy nominations, including 10News This Morning, 
10News at 7, 10News at 11 and 10News Weekend. Local 54 members worked on the nominated newscasts. Matthew Burrow and Robert Hotz each received multiple nominations for their work on individual projects.
NBC San Diego picked up 22 nominations; Fox 5 received 16; XETV San Diego 6 earned 10; KUSI received 8; and KFMB got 2.
The 38th Annual Emmy Awards ceremony will be held on June 16 at the La Costa Resort & Spa. The Pacific Southwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences covers the San Diego, Bakersfield, Palm Springs, San Luis Obispo, Santa Maria, Santa Barbara and Las Vegas markets.
Local 54 congratulates all the nominees and those who worked on the nominated entries. Read the full list here.
SDLC: City Council Report Card
May 1, 2012
It’s election season again, and that means tough decisions and a renewed commitment to accountability. That’s why the San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council has compiled the Working Families Report Card for the San Diego City Council.
"And once we actually put all the votes together, there was only 
one conclusion," CEO Lorena Gonzales said. "Since the 2010 election, our city council has failed working families."
Five of the eight members of the San Diego City Council earned failing grades for their stances on 24 key issues.
Carl DeMaio, Kevin Faulconer, Sherri Lightner, Tony Young and Lorie Zapf earned an F. DeMaio, a vocal opponent of working families, received the lowest score, with 16%.
Marti Emerald earned the highest score of 87%, David Alvarez earned 81% and Todd Gloria earned 60%.
"An economy with more jobs, better jobs and better lives for all workers in the region — union and non-union — is vital for the long-term health of San Diego," Gonzalez said.
Click here to view the Report Card.
Annual March Honors Cesar Chavez
March 31, 2012
Local 54 members joined over a thousand other union members, elected officials and community and religious leaders today for the 5th Annual Cesar Chavez Day March. The event, sponsored by the San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council, is designed to honor Chavez and highlight workers' rights.
This is the first time the event did not highlight 
Local 54's campaign for a fair contract for workers at KGTV. That is in recognition of new-owner Scripps' commitment to bargain a new contract.
Local 54 Vice President Robert Buchanan and Executive Board member Frank Castillo shot video and stills of the event. See the photo gallery.
The 5-mile march began just south of downtown at Cesar Chavez Park, where Labor Council CEO Lorena Gonzalez launched a kick-off rally touting the theme of the day, "Reclaiming the American Dream."
The group marched down Harbor Drive to the Convention Center, where they protested Mayor Sanders decision to sell out to the Convention & Visitors Bureau.
They went through the lobby of Marriott Marquis hotel, chanting to visitors, "Boycott the Marriott. Check out now!" The group continued past eateries in the Gaslamp, where cards were handed to patrons pointing out that the businesses do not provide paid sick days for their workers. Customers were asked, "Do you really want to eat food prepared by someone who is ill?"
The next stop was at the AT&T building, where people posted notes demanding that the company negotiate a fair contract with their CWA-represented workers.
The march continued through Horton Plaza to remind retail workers that they have a right to organize. In April, The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will make it mandatory for employers to post a notice informing workers of their right to join a union.
There was some street theater at a fire station on J Street that included a larger than life puppet of mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio holding a firefighter hostage. People called on DeMaio to represent ALL San Diegans and respect working families and workers' rights.
A stop at the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) protested a $20,000 bonus for the CEO while workers received cuts to their health care.
The next stop was at Perkins Middle School on Main Street, where people signed a petition to support education and stop the layoffs.
The march ended back at Cesar Chavez Park where the group enjoyed music and had lunch.
California passed legislation in 2000 to recognize the birthday of Chavez, a labor leader and human rights advocate, who co-founded the United Farm Workers and brought attention to the plight of agriculture workers.
Chavez died in 1993 at age 66 and is buried at the National Chavez Center in Kern County. Today would have been his 85th birthday.
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Learn More: E.W. Scripps Company
Recent industry articles about The E.W. Scripps Company:
Scripps 1Q Same-Station TV Revenue Up 12%
The E.W. Scripps Co. reported operating results for the first quarter of 2012 that it said reflect “improved profitability of the company’s local media businesses, driven by strong top- and bottom-line performance at the television stations and continued moderation of the declines in newspaper revenues.”
Scripps Co.: Old Media Dog Full Of New Tricks
The 134-year-old media company, led by CEO Rich Boehne, is moving away from newspapers to television with the recent purchase of the McGraw-Hill stations. With Brian Lawlor, television SVP, leading the charge, the near-term mission is to rebuild the stations’ cash flow margins. At the same time, Scripps has a long-range plan that focuses on investing in homegrown programming to reduce its reliance on syndicated fare; bulking up investigative news efforts; 
reorganizing and centralizing digital operations; and even sticking its toes in the social gaming pool.
Brogan Promoted to Corporate News Role at Scripps
Jeff Brogan, WPTV West Palm Beach news director, has been named senior director of news strategy and operations at parent Scripps. He joins Lana Durban Scott in that role, and departs his WPTV post.
‘Right This Minute’ Hopes Its Time Has Come
E.W. Scripps, Cox Media Group and Raycom Media are betting other stations will want to air its syndicated video clip show, in which five TV news vets riff and report on whatever the producers can find of interest on the Web and elsewhere. The mix of news and entertainment is produced as two back-to-back half-hours, giving stations the option of splitting up the episodes into different time slots or buying the show as a single half-hour.
Scripps Posts 11.4% Gain In Non-Political Revenue
The E.W. Scripps Co. reported operating results for the fourth quarter of 2011 that reflect a double-digit year-over-year increase in non-political television revenues.
Scripps Expands Investigative Efforts in DC
The Scripps Washington bureau, home of Scripps Howard News Service (SHNS), is becoming a fully multimedia, national news organization pursuing enterprise and investigative stories for broadcast TV, newspapers and digital platforms.
Scripps To Swap Syndie Fare For Own Shows
By replacing some syndicated programs with shows it effectively owns, Scripps could theoretically reduce programming costs and boost revenues while exploiting locally generated revenues.
Scripps Stations Expand Free Political Airtime
The E.W. Scripps Co., which started giving free airtime to political candidates more than a decade ago, has renewed its commitment to election coverage by its stations.
Scripps To Offer Second Screen App
Broadcast TV viewers may soon be able to sync up their tablets and other computers with whatever show they are watching and tap into related information and swap comments with friends watching at the same time. That's the "second screen" service envisioned by 10 TV station groups and ConnecTV, an Emeryville, Calif.-based startup that has developed the enabling app.
Scripps Merges All TV, Paper Digital Efforts
The E.W. Scripps Co. on Monday launched a reorganization of its digital operations, putting all resources under one umbrella in a move, it said, to accelerate the launch of new products and services for quickly evolving digital platforms.
Scripps Bucks Investigative Reporting Trend
In the last year and a half, Scripps Television has made new hires and put existing staffers through special training as part of a concerted effort to improve investigative reporting at its nine news-producing stations. "It's about serving your community and providing them with journalism and stories they need to know about," says Bob Sullivan, a former Scripps station news director who, after a hiatus from TV news, rejoined the company in January 2010, in part to lead the effort.
Scripps Intros Live Streaming To Mobile
The new solution works with HTML5, Flash and native application protocols to bring seamless live mobile viewing experience to Scripps' nine TV markets.
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Scripps Has Rich San Diego History
January 1, 2012
While NABET-CWA and KGTV have a long and fruitful history dating back to 1953, the Scripps family arrived more than half a century earlier.
In 1873, Ellen Browning Scripps (1836-1932) helped her brother James start The Detroit News, where she pioneered the concept of the feature article. Meanwhile, her half-brother Edward Willis Scripps (1854-1926) 
founded what would become a powerful chain of newspapers.
Ellen
moved to La Jolla in 1896, where she gave to many causes and was an early supporter of the San Diego Zoo.
In 1924, while recovering from a broken hip, she became interested in medicine and founded what are now The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla and Scripps Clinic.
Her La Jolla residence was purchased by a group of artists in 1939, remodeled and opened as the Art Center in La Jolla, now known as the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.
The San Diego City Schools named Ellen Browning Scripps Elementary School, which opened in 2001, in her honor.
E.W. Scripps started or acquired some 25 newspapers, the beginning of a media empire that is now the E. W. Scripps Company. Believing in autonomy, he let local editors run their local papers. Among his industry innovations were distributing newspapers to the suburbs and getting the bulk of income from advertisers instead of subscribers. He once said if you were doing the job right, sooner or later you would upset an advertiser and lose some revenue.
In 1898, he built a winter home on a ranch he bought northeast of San Diego. He eventually lived there year round, conducting newspaper business from his home. The ranch encompassed what is today the community of Scripps Ranch as well as Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. (Local 54 members have handbilled KGTV advertisers on that land.)
In 1903, E.W. and Ellen were the founding donors of the San Diego Marine Biological Association, now known as the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
The E.W. Scripps Company operates newspapers in 13 markets and 19 broadcast TV stations including KGTV.
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