[3] In its early years, Newsy operated primarily as a syndication business, selling news and original content to major digital journalism brands that included AOL/Huffington Post, Microsoft[4] and Mashable.

[1] Three years later, in September 2017, Scripps then announced it would take over RLTV's (Retirement Living Television) cable and satellite carriage agreements for approximately 26 million subscribers and reprogram the network with Newsy's lineup of shows.

Scripps stated that its sales team had been stymied by an advertising market that refused to buy time on channels carrying news and political programming, with the advertisers saying it was too "risky" in light of the "polarized nature" of the American population, which prevented Scripps News from earning the revenue needed to be a viable service.

subchannel network at 6:00am EST on November 16, with "In Real Life" (episode titled "Post-Trauma") being the last show to air on the O.T.A.

[17][18] On November 15, 2024, Scripps News announced that it had started rolling out a new strategy to bring journalism to viewers, which would focus its coverage on streaming and connected TV while winding down its over-the-air broadcast.