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.
Chronicle Features
The Chronicle Features Syndicate was formed in 1962 to syndicate the "San Francisco Chronicle"'s star columnists. Chronicle Features' first comic strips were Dan O'Neill's "Odd Bodkins" and Bill Weber's "Doctor Funshine", both launched in 1963. "Doctor Funshine" lasted four years, but O'Neill's more successful "Odd Bodkins" had a tumultuous end in 1970 that coincided with O'Neill's activities with the underground comix group the Air Pirates.