Adams Publishing Group is purchasing Bliss
Communications’ two dailies, The Gazette in Janesville
and The EagleHerald in Marinette (Wisconsin ),
along with weeklies The Janesville Messenger, The Wisconsin/Illinois Stateline
News and Walworth County Sunday, The Gazette reported.
The final
transaction is expected to take place in mid-June. Terms of the deal were not
disclosed.
“We are
very excited to have the Bliss newspapers join the Adams
family of newspapers," said Mark Adams, Adams Publishing Group CEO.
"The communities served by Bliss are exactly the type of cities and
counties that we look for as we continue to expand our company, and each of
these markets fits well with other publishing properties we own in the great
state of Wisconsin.”
Adams
Publishing Group has 30 daily papers, more than 100 non-dailies and other
entities in 20 states.
Bliss is
selling its radio stations, WCLO and WJVL, to Ben Thompson, CEO of Big Radio,
The Gazette reported. Thompson is part of a father/son team running eight radio
stations from Janesville , Wisconsin .
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