Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Southcomm media portfolio

10:37 a.m.: Nashville-based Southcomm Inc. today confirmed through a release on NashvillePost.com the earlier report from The Tennessean regarding Southcomm's planned acquisition of alt-weekly NashvilleSCENE and money-making socialite pub nFocus. Southcomm is controlled by Townes Duncan and his VC firm, Solidus. The media rollup strategy is being executed by Southcomm CEO Chris Ferrell, who was previously publisher of the SCENE and nFocus. Ferrell earlier owned a marketing firm and prior to that was a community-relations executive with Citysearch in Nashville, and an executive with Telalink, an ISP. Ferrell served eight years earlier as a member of Metro Council in Metro Nashville Davidson County.

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