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The San Diego Union-Tribune may have an interested buyer. The owner of the city’s KUSI/Channel 51 TV station has said he is talking to potential partners about the possibility of making a bid for the paper.
The station’s owner, Michael D. McKinnon, does not want the paper sold to a distant corporation, he says (via the Tribune).
McKinnon was publisher of the former La Jolla Journal in the ’50s and ’60s. In addition to KUSI, he owns two stations in Texas. He did not name his potential partners or a strategy for bringing a newspaper and television station under the same roof, but he did say it would take “a lot of energy.” He added that though newspapers are having a difficult time, they are not dead.
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