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Thursday, April 16, 2020

2 creditors set floor for sale price of McClatchy

McClatchy’s largest creditors offered to buy the bankrupt media company Thursday as a strategy to set a floor for the media conglomerate's sale price.

Chatham Asset Management and Brigade Capital Management offered “well in excess” of $300 million as a “stalking horse,” meaning no one else would be allowed to offer less.

Any settlement will free McClatchy from pension obligations, dumping that cost onto the federal pension protection program.

Knight Rider was acquired by McClatchy in 2006 but sold the BJ almost immediately to Canada’s Black Press. Gatehouse Media bought the BJ frm Black Press in 2018. John Knight inherited the debt-ridden BJ in 1933 from his father, Charles Landon Knight.

McClatchy has controlled the company since the California Gold Rush.

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