Simultaneous with the transaction, Kupchella announced a name change for his company to PresentNation, consistent with its refocusing on national digital news curation for certain highly desirable market sectors, starting with health care.Ĭherry Tree & Associates, LLC, is a private investment banking firm headquartered in Minneapolis and specializing in serving entrepreneurially-managed companies. The assets that were sold related only to the company’s local Minnesota news operation and include the company name. Northern Lights and the Twins both are owned by the Pohlad Companies.īringMeTheNews was founded in 2009 by Rick Kupchella, a longtime Twin Cities television journalist. The addition of BringMeTheNews gives Northern Lights Broadcasting a much larger statewide voice in Minnesota’s digital media ecosystem. It also operates a music-centric web site.
The buyer operates Go 96.3 Radio, an FM station that airs modern music and the Minnesota Twins baseball games. They were professional throughout and fun to work with.” “They kept up the momentum and drove practical solutions to potential problems. “Cherry Tree’s professionals added value throughout the process,” said Simon Raper, BringMeTheNews chief financial officer. “It felt good to have folks with their level of expertise at times volunteering to drive the bus.” “Cherry Tree was particularly adept at navigating the process, contributing greatly to development of the negotiation strategy and directly driving the process of the conversation with the buyers,” said Rick Kupchella, chairman, president and founder of BringMeTheNews. The asset sale included BringMeTheNews’ 24-hour digital news curation operation that generates a million-plus monthly online audience by monitoring all media and creating online distillations of news of interest to Minnesotans at It also reaches 400,000 listeners a week via a 28-station radio network, one of Minnesota’s largest by audience size.īringMeTheNews has proven particularly successful at using social media, both in news curation and in audience-building. Cherry Tree & Associates investment bank advised BringMeTheNews, LLC, on the sale of its Minnesota-based local digital and broadcast news curation operation to Northern Lights Broadcasting, a subsidiary of the Pohlad Companies.
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