Tennessee media firm enters Florida, buys seven newspapers

A Tennessee-based media company has acquired the Sun Coast Media Group, a collection of daily, weekly and twice-weekly community newspapers on the west coast of Florida that had been family-owned since 1976. 

Greeneville, Tenn.-based Adams Publishing Group purchased the media company from the Dunn-Rankin family, well known in the Florida media/publishing community and in south Sarasota and Charlotte counties. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.