Scripps Networks for the first time will have a lawyer working...
Scripps Networks for the first time will have a lawyer working mostly in the Washington area, company executives said. Chief Legal Officer A.B. Cruz said he'll spend more time in the Chevy Chase, Md., office of the company’s Travel Channel…
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and less time commuting to Scripps’ corporate headquarters in Knoxville, Tenn. The change is part of focusing more on federal regulatory and legislative issues, including at the FCC and on Capitol Hill, after Scripps Networks split in 2008 from broadcaster and newspaper publisher E.W. Scripps, Cruz and a company spokeswoman told us Monday. “Very recently we have started accelerating our attention here, because certainly pre-split under my tenure here we very infrequently lobbied” in Washington, Cruz said. “This certainly opens the door to more coordinated efforts.” He declined to say on what issues Scripps will be active on and said it hasn’t been decided if the company will hire a less-senior lawyer to also work in the Chevy Chase office. “It just makes sense to have a better finger on the pulse” in Washington, Cruz said: He already lives in the area.