Bob Sullivan

VP of Content, E.W. Scripps

By Michael Malone -- Broadcasting & Cable, 2/27/2012 12:01:00 AM

Scripps has made clear its ambitions to slice syndication costs, and Bob Sullivan is charged with filling the gap with fresh, compelling and homegrown programming.

Sullivan is traipsing across the country to meet with producers and has some nine show concepts in the works, with an eye on rolling out a handful of them in markets where the Scripps stations are signing off this fall on access monsters Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!.

Formerly news director at KNXV Phoenix, Sullivan is also tasked with keeping the Scripps stations’ crack local news out" ts, including teams at WXYZ Detroit and WPTV West Palm Beach, breaking impactful stories in their markets.

With Scripps adding the McGraw-Hill stations to the group (four good-sized ABC outlets, five low-power Aztecas), Sullivan will make a major mark on local TV in 2012.