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 Independent
The following August, the Hearst Corporation, owners of the "San Francisco Examiner" and the largest private publishers in the world, announced their purchase of the morning daily "San Francisco Chronicle". They also claimed the "San Francisco Examiner" was not a viable business operation and planned to shut it down. "The Independent" led an effort to keep the "Examiner" open, and ultimately the U.S. Department of Justice under Attorney General Janet Reno forced the Hearst’s to sell the "SF Examiner" to the Fang family in 2000.