The 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee finals drew its largest television audience since 2015. Viewership of the finals live on June 2 was 147% higher than in 2021. Harini Logan, […]
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — A speller has been reinstated into the Scripps National Spelling Bee field after successfully appealing that he was denied relevant root information about a word. Surya Kapu, […]
Can the venerable Scripps National Spelling Bee take on the look of a Winter Olympics or American Idol? Its backers are about to find out. Organizers of the event, which has kept Americans trying to figure out how to connect the right letters for words ranging from “sanitarium” to “xanthosis” for nearly a century, want to add new elements to the mix that might make the contest look less like something for elementary-school students and more like America’s Got Talent.
The Scripps National Spelling Bee will welcome 234 spellers to National Harbor, Md., from May 31 to June 2 for the national rounds of competition and the first fully in-person […]
LeVar Burton has been hired as host of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, giving the competition a celebrity headliner who’s also a longtime literacy advocate as Scripps takes over production […]
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The Scripps National Spelling Bee will air live on two U.S. broadcast television networks in 2022, making it accessible to the widest audience in its nearly 100-year history. The 2022 […]
This year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee has been canceled after organizers concluded there is “no clear path to safely set a new date in 2020” because of the coronavirus pandemic. […]
The Scripps National Spelling Bee won’t be held as scheduled this year because of the coronavirus. Scripps announced its decision Friday morning, citing recommendations against large gatherings by the Centers […]
It’s never happened before: eight co-champions closed out the bee after 20 rounds by spelling 47 consecutive words correctly. All eight received the full winner’s freight of $50,000 in cash and a new, custom-designed trophy, because E.W. Scripps simply could not come up with words difficult enough to challenge them.
