Scripps to relaunch Court TV, a decade after Its reality shift
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E.W. Scripps Co. plans to relaunch Court TV network, returning a well-known brand to viewers more than a decade after the original version morphed into a reality TV channel.
Scripps said its Katz Networks unit bought the Court TV intellectual property and library from AT&T Inc.’s Turner Broadcasting for an undisclosed amount, and plans to reboot it in May. Turner transformed the earlier iteration of Court TV into TruTV in 2008.
While the old Court TV was a cable channel, the new version will also be broadcast over the air and has local-station distribution deals with Scripps as well as with Tribune Media Co. and Univision Communications Inc., Scripps said in a statement Monday. Court TV will reach more than 50 percent of U.S. homes at launch and will be carried in 25 percent of cable homes, Scripps said.
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