{"id":239695,"date":"2020-12-18T14:42:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T14:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orourkemediagroup.com\/?p=239695"},"modified":"2020-12-18T14:42:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T14:42:16","slug":"orourke-media-group-acquires-rivertown-multimedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devsiteomg.com\/omgsite\/2020\/12\/18\/orourke-media-group-acquires-rivertown-multimedia\/","title":{"rendered":"O\u2019Rourke Media Group acquires RiverTown Multimedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-239696 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/devsiteomg.com\/omgsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/rivertowns.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devsiteomg.com\/omgsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/rivertowns.png 620w, https:\/\/devsiteomg.com\/omgsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/rivertowns-480x170.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 620px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"\">The O\u2019Rourke Media Group grew its Minnesota and Wisconsin portfolio on Thursday with the acquisition of two weekly newspapers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\">Forum Communications Company sold RiverTown Multimedia, which publishes the Republican Eagle and Star-Observer newspapers, to <\/span><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/orourkemediagroup.com\/\"><span class=\"\">O\u2019Rourke Media Group<\/span><\/a><span class=\"\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\">Earlier this year, O\u2019Rourke Media Group acquired the Cannon Falls Beacon, located just outside of Minneapolis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\">\u201cI\u2019m thrilled that RiverTown Multimedia will be joining our company,\u201d said Jim O\u2019Rourke, CEO of O\u2019Rourke Media Group. \u201cThese are well respected newspapers and combined with the Cannon Falls Beacon, this acquisition significantly strengthens our competitive position in Goodhue County. We can\u2019t wait to get to know these communities and work with their talented employees to effectively serve readers and advertisers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\">The acquisition will close on Jan. 1. The sale includes the news, sales and IT staff of the newspaper group but does not include the RiverTown office and production facility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\">The family-owned and operated O\u2019Rourke Media Group launched in 2018 and now publishes 16 newspapers and affiliated websites in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Vermont and Arizona.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The O\u2019Rourke Media Group grew its Minnesota and Wisconsin portfolio on Thursday with the acquisition of two weekly newspapers. Forum Communications Company sold RiverTown Multimedia, which publishes the Republican Eagle and Star-Observer newspapers, to O\u2019Rourke Media Group. Earlier this year, O\u2019Rourke Media Group acquired the Cannon Falls Beacon, located just outside of Minneapolis. \u201cI\u2019m thrilled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devsiteomg.com\/omgsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devsiteomg.com\/omgsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devsiteomg.com\/omgsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devsiteomg.com\/omgsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devsiteomg.com\/omgsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devsiteomg.com\/omgsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devsiteomg.com\/omgsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devsiteomg.com\/omgsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devsiteomg.com\/omgsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}