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The McClatchy Company is a publicly traded American publishing company based in Sacramento, California. It operates 30 daily newspapers in 15 states and has an average weekday circulation of 2.2 million and Sunday circulation of 2.8 million.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=McClatchy Reports First Quarter 2010 Results )〕 In 2006, it purchased Knight Ridder, which at the time was the second-largest newspaper company in the United States (Gannett was and remains the largest). In addition to its daily newspapers, McClatchy also operates several websites and community papers. ==History== The company originated with ''The Sacramento Bee'', which was first published on February 3, 1857, after the California Gold Rush. James McClatchy took over as editor of the ''Bee'' within a week. For most of its history, the company was focused on the newspaper business in California's Sacramento Valley and San Joaquin Valley. It acquired its first out-of-state newspapers in 1979 and, through numerous subsequent acquisitions, has grown into a nationwide company in the U.S. In its first moves outside its home state, McClatchy bought the ''Anchorage Daily News'' in Anchorage, Alaska, and the ''Tri-City Herald'' in Kennewick, Washington. McClatchy acquired then-ABC-affiliate KOVR from Metromedia in 1963. The company's own ''Modesto Bee'' reported the sale of the station. It was sold to The Outlet Company in 1978 and today exists as a CBS owned-and-operated station. In 1990, McClatchy acquired three dailies in South Carolina: ''The Herald'' in Rock Hill, ''The Island Packet'' in Hilton Head, and ''The Beaufort Gazette'' of Beaufort. In 1995, it acquired ''The News & Observer'' of Raleigh, North Carolina, and in 1998, it bought the ''Star Tribune'' of Minneapolis. In January 2004, McClatchy bought the ''Merced Sun-Star'' of Merced, and five affiliated non-dailies in California's San Joaquin Valley. The company's biggest acquisition occurred on June 27, 2006 when McClatchy purchased Knight Ridder. Because McClatchy was so much smaller than Knight Ridder at the time, one observer equated the deal as "a dolphin swallowing a small whale."〔("Newspaper Chain Agrees to a Sale for $4.5 Billion" ), ''New York Times''〕 The purchase price of $40 and 0.5118 shares of McClatchy Class A stock per share was valued in total at about $4 billion in cash and stock. The company also assumed $2 billion in debt. This purchase added 20 newspapers to the company stable and the immediate sale (over the next five weeks) of 12 publications including the ''St. Paul Pioneer Press'', ''San Jose Mercury News'' and ''The Philadelphia Inquirer''. Those sales were completed on Aug. 2, 2006 In July 2008, McClatchy sold the company's digital advertising network, "Real Cities" to a Chicago-based marketing firm named Centro. The "Real Cities" network was liquidated by Centro the following month. The Minneapolis-St. Paul ''Star Tribune'', acquired in 1998 and sold in 2007 to private-equity firm Avista Capital Partners for $555 million, had the highest circulation of all McClatchy newspapers. The company also owns a portfolio of digital assets, including 16.0% of CareerBuilder, LLC, which operates CareerBuilder.com; 25.6% of Classified Ventures, LLC, a company that offers classified websites, such as the auto website Cars.com and the rental site Apartments.com; and 33.3% of HomeFinder, LLC, which operates the online real estate website HomeFinder.com. McClatchy also owns 49.5% of the voting stock and 70.6% of the nonvoting stock of The Seattle Times Company. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The McClatchy Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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