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Court TV is coming back, thanks to E.W. Scripps decision
DEC 10, 2018 | 9:35 AM
Court TV — the outlet that first brought live gavel-to-gavel coverage of sensational legal cases into the country’s living rooms — is being revived.
Cincinnati-based TV station group owner E.W. Scripps Co. announced Monday that it has acquired the Court TV name and program library from Turner Broadcasting and will relaunch the outlet in May 2019. Like the original channel, the new Court TV is to provide live courtroom coverage and reporting on high-profile trials.
Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The new Court TV will be operated by Scripps’ Katz Networks unit.
Turner discontinued Court TV in 2008 and converted the channel into the reality-based channel TruTV. But the popularity of true-crime programming has grown in recent years, which led Scripps to restore the service — especially as live TV cameras in courtrooms provide hours of continuous, inexpensive programming.
https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-court-tv-revival-20181210-story.html