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On February 20, 2014, U-T TV was dropped from cable, and lacked crucial carriage from Time Warner Cable. The network featured news, lifestyle, and editorial content produced by the newspaper's staff, and was created as part of the newspaper's growing emphasis on multi-platform content under Manchester. In 2012, U-T San Diego launched U-T TV, a television news channel.
In 2014, U-T San Diego launched a ninth paper, the Encinitas Advocate. In November 2013, the newspaper bought eight more local weekly newspapers (La Jolla Light, Del Mar Times, Rancho Santa Fe Review, Poway News Chieftain, Rancho Bernardo & 4S Ranch News Journal, the Solana Beach Sun, the Carmel Valley News and the Ramona Sentinel) in the San Diego area, which continued publication under their own names. Six months later the U-T North County Times name was dropped and the newspaper became a North County edition of the U-T. On October 15, 2012, the North County Times ceased publication and became the U-T North County Times, which was an edition of the U-T with some North County–specific content. U-T San Diego bought the North County Times in September 2012. The official announcement explained the change as being intended to "unify our print and digital products under a single brand with a clear and consistent expectation of quality".
On January 3, 2012, the newspaper announced that it would use the name U-T San Diego "on all of our media products and communications" the newspaper's website (formerly called "SignOn San Diego" and available under ) would use the name. His group also owns the Grand Del Mar luxury resort in San Diego. Manchester built two landmark downtown hotels, the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel and the San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina. The purchase price was reportedly in excess of $110 million. In November 2011, Platinum Equity sold the newspaper to MLIM Holdings, a company led by Doug Manchester, a San Diego real estate developer and "an outspoken supporter of conservative causes". The U-T nameplate was created by Jim Parkinson, a type designer who also created nameplates for The Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Newsweek. Changes included being printed on thinner, 100 percent recycled paper, moving the comics to the back of the business section, and abbreviating the title The San Diego Union-Tribune on the front page to U-T San Diego. On August 17, 2010, the Union-Tribune changed its design to improve "clarity, legibility, and ease of use". The merged newspaper was sold to the private investment group Platinum Equity of Beverly Hills, California, on March 18, 2009. Copley Press īoth the Union and the Tribune were acquired by Copley Press in 1928 and were merged on February 2, 1992. In addition, the San Diego Union purchased the San Diego Daily Bee in 1888, and for a brief time the combined newspaper was named the San Diego Union and Daily Bee.
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In February 2018 it was announced to be sold, along with the Los Angeles Times, to Patrick Soon-Shiong's investment firm Nant Capital LLC for $500 million plus $90 million in pension liabilities. In 2015, it was acquired by Tribune Publishing. The name changed to U-T San Diego in 2012 but was changed again to The San Diego Union-Tribune in 2015. Its name derives from a 1992 merger between the two major daily newspapers at the time, The San Diego Union and the San Diego Evening Tribune. The San Diego Union-Tribune is an American metropolitan daily newspaper, published in San Diego, California.
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