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30-491: What would become Chronicle Publishing Company was formed on January 16, 1865, when teenage brothers Charles and Michael Henry "M. H." de Young published the first edition of the Daily Dramatic Chronicle , a venture funded by a borrowed $ 20 gold piece. The paper began with a circulation of two thousand readers daily, which tripled within six months as the paper gained readership in the wake of its breaking

60-680: A co-edition publisher based in Bellevue, WA, for $ 9.8 million. Quarto sold its last two non-publishing businesses in 2017 – Books & Gifts Direct (Australia/New Zealand) and Regent Publishing Services (Hong Kong) – and is now solely focused on its core publishing expertise. Investigative research by the Financial Times found out that since 2020, Quarto has been censoring some of its books in order to allow them to be printed and sold in China. References to Taiwan, Tibet, Hong Kong, and

90-631: A construction permit for a television station that would be operated alongside the Chronicle . On November 5, 1949, CPC would sign on KRON-TV on VHF channel 4, which became the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) affiliate for the San Francisco Bay Area television market . This was much to the chagrin of NBC itself, which was a runner-up for the station and would desire KRON for the next half-century. In

120-456: A diversification of its interests outside of San Francisco. The second century of the company began in 1965 with the Chronicle 's entering a joint operating agreement with the rival The San Francisco Examiner in which the Chronicle would publish in the mornings while The Examiner published in the afternoons. With the growth of television in the 1940s, Chronicle Publishing Company decided to diversify into that medium by applying for

150-641: A feud Charles had with the mayor. Charles de Young was born on January 8, 1846 in Natchitoches, Louisiana . He was the son of Cornelia "Amelia" ( née Morange; 1809–1881) and Miechel de Young (died 1854), who married in 1837, and the brother of Michael Henry "Harry" de Young and Virginia de Young (died 1875). His family, who were Jewish , had immigrated from the Netherlands and France. His maternal grandfather, Benjamin Morange, who served as

180-769: The Worcester Telegram & Gazette in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1986. In 1988, Chronicle Publishing made its final purchase in buying Motorbooks , a renowned imprint dealing with automotive books; Chronicle Publishing then established MBI Publishing Company as parent company to Classic Motorbooks and Motorbooks International. As late as 1993, Nan Tucker McEvoy , granddaughter of San Francisco Chronicle founder M. H. de Young and chair of Chronicle Publishing Company's board of directors , declined an offer of $ 800 million made by Hearst Corporation for Chronicle Publishing. She told Editor & Publisher that

210-733: The French Minister to Spain under Napoleon I , moved to the United States about 1815 and helped found the B'nai Jeshurun Congregation in New York in 1825. In 1859, he began publishing the Holiday Advertiser , a daily publication, while he was finishing his apprenticeship . The interests were sold and in 1865, he began publishing the Dramatic Chronicle with his brother, Harry . The daily paper

240-569: The Telegram & Gazette being pared down into a " [Boston] Globe West" arose in Worcester while Hearst's purchase of the Chronicle led to the Examiner having to reinvent itself under its new local ownership as it struggled, and down the line was sold out to private equity publishers that reduced its operations considerably. The television properties became a strain on their new owners as

270-669: The 1950s, KRON would add an FM radio station ( KRON-FM , now under call sign KOIT) at 96.5 MHz. Further diversification into broadcasting came in 1975 when the sale of KRON-FM to Bonneville International allowed CPC to purchase the Meredith Corporation 's WOWT-TV in Omaha, Nebraska . This was followed in 1979 with the purchase of KAKE-TV in Wichita, Kansas and in 1987 when independently owned KLBY in Colby, Kansas

300-658: The Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei were deleted or altered, including in the award-winning book This Book is Anti-Racist . The Quarto Group has launched a number of foreign-language imprints through international partnerships with foreign publishers. These include: The Quarto Editora imprint was launched in Brazil in 2014 through an international publishing partnership with Brasil Franchising and their publishing business Editora Nobel. Quarto Editora publishes in categories such as cookery, beauty and self-help. Nobel Editora distributes

330-497: The Chronicle–LIN–Benedek deal pushed Benedek Broadcasting into bankruptcy with most of the company (including the former Chronicle) stations being purchased in 2002 by Gray Television . Young Broadcasting struggled in the years since purchasing KRON-TV, having sold four stations and pare down operations at KRON to keep afloat due to the heavy debt incurred by the massive purchase of the station. KRON itself also suffered due to

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360-560: The Italian publisher, Giunti took a significant shareholding and Andrea Giunti joined Quarto's board of directors. In September 2020, Chuk Kin Lau became President and Polly Powell was appointed Group CEO. In January 2022, Alison Goff was appointed new Group CEO. The Quarto Group was founded by Bob Morley, Michael Jackson and Laurence Orbach in the early 1970s and was finally established as The Quarto Group in 1976. In 1986, Quarto listed on

390-559: The London stock exchange. By the late 1990s, Quarto had acquired three new imprints, Rotovision, Book Sales Inc and Rockport Publishers and founded Quarto Children's Books, Quintet and Quintessence that published art, health, lifestyle and children's books. The group expanded further in the US – with the addition of Book Sales, Rockport Publishers, Walter Foster, Creative Publishing International, Motorbooks, and more recently, Cool Springs Press. In

420-598: The Number 1 position on The New York Times bestseller list. The group was established by co-founders Laurence Orbach and Robert Morley and was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1986. Laurence Orbach was chairman and CEO until November 2012, when he was replaced as chairman by Tim Chadwick and Marcus Leaver as CEO. Chuk Kin Lau, the principal shareholder, became Group CEO in July 2018. In February 2020,

450-717: The UK, Quarto grew by acquiring Aurum Press and then Jacqui Small in 2004. By the 2000s, The Quarto Group had increased imprints and genres, along with this, a steady increase in its share value. In August 2011, The Quarto Group acquired independent UK book publisher Frances Lincoln for £4.5 million. In 2012, Marcus Leaver took over from Laurence Orbach as Group CEO By 2014, the group had started two new children's imprints: Wide Eyed Editions and Words & Pictures, and acquired Small World Creations. In 2015 Quarto acquired Ivy Press and Ivy Kids for £1.5m and continued its expansion In 2016, Quarto acquired SmartLab and becker&mayer,

480-577: The action of a special stockholders' meeting in April 1995, in which Mrs. McEvoy was ousted from the Chronicle Publishing Company board and therefore from her position as chair. Although Mrs. McEvoy kept her 26.3% ownership share in the company's stock, which together with the 7% held by her son Nion McEvoy gave them a formidable one-third shareholder voting bloc if they chose to vote together, she no longer exerted direct control over

510-638: The books through its franchises and main book trade channels. Kalimat Quarto was launched in 2016 as an international publishing partnership with Sharjah-based Kalimat Group. The imprint publishes books in Arabic and distributes them throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Announced in May 2017, Quarto Iberoamericana is Quarto's Spanish language imprint launched in partnership with Argentina-based publisher Catapulta Editores S.L. The imprint publishes 20 books

540-585: The loss of its NBC affiliation to KNTV , and became a lower-profile news-heavy station holding an affiliation with MyNetworkTV , eventually consolidating their studios (though not ownership) within the building of their longtime rivals, ABC -owned KGO-TV . Young itself filed for bankruptcy in 2009, but emerged the next year; it sold itself to Media General in 2013, uniting it with WWLP. Nexstar Media Group purchased Media General in 2017, and KRON remains owned by that group. Twenty-four de Young family shareholders received at least $ 2 billion divided among them from

570-552: The management of The Chronicle or its editorial positions , and could not retain the clout she previously held in the disposition of Chronicle Publishing Company's assets, including The Chronicle . Over the latter half of 1999 into 2000, the units of the company were sold separately to different entities: With the exception of the Pantagraph and the book imprints, all of the former Chronicle Publishing assets have met some degree of criticism, misfortune, or both. Concerns about

600-502: The news of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln to San Francisco. In September 1868, the paper changed its name to the Morning Chronicle . Over the coming decades, the Chronicle saw massive growth alongside that of San Francisco, weathering the 1880 assassination of Charles de Young in the Chronicle offices. In 1890, the company built the (Old) Chronicle Building , a ten-story building at Kearny and Market Streets that

630-477: The sale of the San Francisco Chronicle would take place " over [her] dead body ", and was widely quoted. However, with the growing consolidation of print and broadcast media in the 1990s, the other shareholding heirs of the de Young family decided to sell the assets of CPC in 1999 when the consolidation trend in the United States was at its peak. The movement to sell was partly facilitated by

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660-613: The sales of the Chronicle Publishing assets. Charles de Young Charles de Young (January 8, 1846 – April 23, 1880), along with his younger brother M. H. de Young , founded the newspaper The Daily Dramatic Chronicle , which became the San Francisco Chronicle , and was its editor-in-chief. He was murdered by Isaac M. Kalloch, son of Isaac S. Kalloch , the Mayor of San Francisco , in revenge for

690-536: The two meeting in California Street for a duel during the busiest time of day. Judge Lake shot twice at de Young, who returned the shots; neither was hit. He was proud of the notoriety he had obtained, and proud of the personal danger, as a legitimate element of that notoriety. At the time of his death, the San Francisco Chronicle was worth $ 250,000 (equivalent to $ 7,893,000 in 2023). In 1879, Isaac Smith Kalloch ran for mayor of San Francisco. It

720-651: The wounds and with the sympathy of voters was elected the 18th Mayor of San Francisco. He served from 1879 until 1881. On April 23, 1880, Kalloch's son, Isaac Milton Kalloch, entered the Chronicle building and shot and killed Charles de Young. In 1884, de Young's brother, Harry, commissioned a bronze statue of Charles, erected at the Odd Fellows Cemetery in San Francisco which cost in excess of $ 10,000 (equivalent to $ 339,000 in 2023). The statue

750-422: Was at the time the tallest building in the western United States , as well as the first to use steel framing . That building was superseded by the final company headquarters, still used by the Chronicle , which were built in 1924 at Fifth and Mission Streets. With the diversification of interests in the 1960s, the corporation owning the Chronicle was spun off into its own unit as Chronicle Publishing to signify

780-401: Was focused on theater gossip, advertising and light news. The revenue from the Dramatic Chronicle allowed the brothers to begin publishing the San Francisco Chronicle in 1869. Charles focused on the content and editing of the paper, while Harry was responsible for the management of the paper on the business side. In 1874, de Young denounced San Francisco Judge Delos Lake, which led to

810-450: Was not long before he came under attack from the San Francisco Chronicle' s editor-in-chief, Charles de Young, who was backing another candidate. de Young, with the hopes of taking Kalloch out of the mayoral race, accused the minister of having an affair. Kalloch responded by accusing Charles' mother, Amelia, of running a brothel. In response, Charles de Young ambushed Kalloch in the streets of San Francisco and shot him twice. Kalloch survived

840-520: Was purchased to increase KAKE's reach. Outside the broadcast realm, Chronicle Publishing owned cable systems in California , Hawaiʻi , and New Mexico for several years under their Western Communications unit before those systems were sold to Tele-Communications Inc. in 1995. In the early 1990s, Chronicle Publishing launched the Bay TV cable network which was operated in conjunction with KRON and

870-802: Was sculpted by F. Marion Wells , a member of the Bohemian Club in San Francisco. Motorbooks The Quarto Group is a global illustrated book publishing group founded in 1976. It is domiciled in the United States and listed on the London Stock Exchange . Quarto creates and sells illustrated books for adults and children, across 50 countries and in 40 languages, through a variety of traditional and non-traditional channels. Quarto employs c.330 people in eight offices in London, Brighton, New York City, Boston, Seattle, Southern California and Hong Kong. In July 2020, its publication This Book Is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell reached

900-528: Was seen on most cable systems in the Bay Area . In 1968, the Chronicle established its own book imprint in Chronicle Books , which would eventually become a successful publishing firm. The profits from Chronicle Books and the other new ventures of the company allowed the company to add to their print holdings as they purchased two newspapers, The Pantagraph of Bloomington, Illinois in 1980 and

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