Scripps Networks Interactive Named One of America's Best Adoption-Friendly Workplaces

Scripps Networks Interactive Named One of America's Best Adoption-Friendly Workplaces

CINCINNATI, May 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE:SNI) ranks in the top 100 on the Best Adoption-Friendly Workplaces in America list released today by the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption.

"We continue to see increases in the number of companies establishing and enhancing adoption benefit policies," said Rita Soronen, executive director of the Foundation. "Even with today's tough economy, we found that companies are dedicated more than ever to providing competitive benefits packages to help their employees when they adopt. It is one benefit that employers can add without negatively impacting the bottom line."

"Our company realizes that our employees build their families in many different ways and that just having a family brings a considerable amount of fulfillment to their lives," said Kenneth W. Lowe, chairman, president and chief executive officer, Scripps Networks Interactive. "We try to help by making available an adoption subsidy to help with the costs associated with processing an adoption, plus paid adoption leave."

Rankings for the Best Adoption Friendly Workplace list are determined by an analysis of a company's adoption benefits - financial reimbursement and paid leave - available to employees who adopt. The Foundation compiled the results from survey data collected from 753 U.S. employers. Employee Benefit News, a SourceMedia publication that is the leading source of information for benefits decision makers, helped extend the survey's scope even further by inviting readers to participate.

Scripps Networks Interactive ranked sixth in the state of Ohio for its adoption benefits.

Today, more than 150,000 foster care children are available for adoption in North America - 129,000 of them in the United States. Most will spend nearly four years in the system before they are adopted. The release of the third annual Best Adoption-Friendly Workplace List helps the Foundation increase foster care adoption awareness while celebrating those businesses that support adoptive families.

In addition to ranking in the top 100, the Foundation also recognized the top ten by size, the leaders of each industry, and companies that support the cause of adoption and adoptive families in other ways. To view the complete Adoption-Friendly Workplace list, please visit www.adoptionfriendlyworkplace.org.

About Scripps Networks Interactive

Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. is the leading developer of lifestyle-oriented content for television and the Internet, where on-air programming is complemented with online video, social media areas and e-commerce components on companion Web sites and broadband vertical channels. The company's media portfolio includes: Lifestyle Media, with popular lifestyle television and Internet brands HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network, Fine Living Network and country music network Great American Country (GAC); and Interactive Services, with leading online search and comparison shopping services BizRate, Shopzilla and uSwitch.

About the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption

The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is a non-profit public charity dedicated to dramatically increasing the number of adoptions of foster care children in North America. Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's and an adopted child, created the Foundation in 1992 in support of the vision that every child will have a permanent home and a loving family. The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption focuses on increasing foster care adoption awareness while supporting model adoption service programs and is committed to ensuring that adoption from the foster care system in streamlined, affordable and accessible to any family wanting to adopt. To learn more about the Foundation's work, go to http://www.davethomasfoundationforadoption.org/.

Source: Scripps Networks Interactive

CONTACT: Maury Williams, Scripps Networks Interactive Inc.,
+1-513-824-3259, maury.williams@scrippsnetworks.com

Web Site: http://www.adoptionfriendlyworkplace.org/

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