Evans sold the paper to Roy H. Park in 1972.
In 1997, Media General sold 43 papers to Community Newspaper Holdings.
[1] CNHI sold The Daily Sun to Knight Ridder, owner of The Macon Telegraph, later in the year as part of a newspaper trade.
[2] It was published in Warner Robins from 1969 until 2003, when it was merged with The Macon Telegraph.
The final edition of The Daily Sun was published February 2, 2003.