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.
The San Francisco Examiner
Through the middle third of the twentieth century, the "Examiner" was one of several dailies competing for the city's and the Bay Area's readership; the San Francisco "News", the San Francisco "Call-Bulletin", and the "Chronicle" all claimed significant circulation, but ultimately attrition left the "Examiner" one chief rival — the "Chronicle". Strident competition prevailed between the two papers in the 1950s and 1960s; the "Examiner" boasted, among other writers, such columnists as veteran sportswriter Prescott Sullivan, the popular Herb Caen, who took an eight-year hiatus from the "Chronicle" (1950–1958), and Kenneth Rexroth, one of the best-known men of California letters and a leading San Francisco Renaissance poet, who contributed weekly impressions of the city from 1960 to 1967. Ultimately, circulation battles ended in a merging of resources between the two papers.