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The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California. It was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young. [1] The paper is owned by the Hearst Corporation, which bought it from the de Young family in 2000. It is the only ...
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 ...
Hearst owns newspapers, magazines, television channels, and television stations, including the San Francisco Chronicle, the Houston Chronicle, Cosmopolitan and Esquire. It owns 50% of the A&E Networks cable network group and 20% of the sports cable network group ESPN, both in partnership with The Walt Disney Company. [5]
The company was established in 1967 by Phelps Dewey, an executive with Chronicle Publishing Company, then-publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle. [3] In 1999 it was bought by Nion McEvoy, great-grandson of M. H. de Young, founder of the Chronicle, from other family members who were selling off the company's assets. [3]
Launched on November 3, 1994 as The Gate in the wake of an eleven-day newspaper strike, [4] and renamed SFGate in 1998, the site once served as the digital home of the San Francisco Chronicle. [5] SFGate and the San Francisco Chronicle split into two separate newsrooms in 2019, with independent editorial staff. [6] At the time SFGate split from ...
The San Francisco Examiner is a newspaper distributed in and around San Francisco, California, and has been published since 1863.. Once self-dubbed the "Monarch of the Dailies" by then-owner William Randolph Hearst and the flagship of the Hearst chain, [1] the Examiner converted to free distribution early in the 21st century and is owned by Clint Reilly Communications, which bought the ...
Who owns the San Francisco 49ers? Billionaire Denise DeBartolo York and her family own 90% of the San Francisco 49ers. York's late father, construction tycoon Edward DeBartolo Sr., bought the team ...
In 1888, M. H. de Young, owner of the San Francisco Chronicle, commissioned Burnham and Root to design a signature building to house his newspaper. Finished in 1890, the Chronicle Building stood ten stories, with a clock tower reaching 218 feet (66 m) in height, becoming San Francisco's first skyscraper and the tallest building on the West Coast.