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.
Samuel Brannan
Brannan used his press to establish the "California Star" as the first newspaper in San Francisco, which released its first formal issue on January 9, 1847. It was the second paper in California, following "The Californian" founded in Monterey and first published on August 15, 1846. The two joined to become "The Daily Alta California" in 1848 after Brannan sold the paper to a colleague.