 The company's properties were assembled by Fidelity Investments in the 1980s; Fidelity founded the company and then sold it to the "Boston Herald" in 2001.Five years later, the chain was purchased by, and immediately became the largest single component of, GateHouse Media.GateHouse gradually phased out CNC branding in favor of "WickedLocal.com", the company's website, and GateHouse Media New England; this process was complete by 2011, when staff email addresses dropped the "@cnc.com" domain.