Chronicle Publishing Company
The Chronicle Publishing Company was a print and broadcast media corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California that was in operation from 1865 until 2000. Owned for the whole of its existence by the de Young family, CPC was most notable for owning the namesake "San Francisco Chronicle" newspaper and KRON-TV, the longtime National Broadcasting Company (NBC) affiliate in the San Francisco Bay Area (San Francisco–Oakland–San Jose) television media market.
San Francisco Bay Area
The largest newspapers in the Bay Area are the "San Francisco Chronicle" and "San Jose Mercury News", the highest and second-highest most widely circulated newspaper in Northern California. "The Chronicle" is most famous for a former columnist, the late Herb Caen, whose daily musings attracted critical acclaim and represented the "voice of San Francisco". The "San Francisco Examiner", once the cornerstone of William Randolph Hearst's media empire and the home of Ambrose Bierce, declined in circulation over the years and now takes the form of a free daily tabloid, under new ownership. Most of the Bay Area's local regions and municipalities also have their own newspapers, such as the "East Bay Times" and "San Mateo Daily Journal". The national newsmagazine "Mother Jones" is also based in San Francisco. Non-English language newspapers include several Chinese-language papers such as "Sing Tao Daily", the largest in the Bay Area by circulation, and "El Mundo", a free Spanish-language weekly distributed by the "Mercury News".