In 1989, Ed Richey, Gordon Inman,[3] and Chuck Snyder sold Nashville Scene to Albie Del Favero and group of investors.

[4] In 1989, after years as a national newspaper sales representative based in New York, Albie Delfavero recognized the need of his hometown, Nashville, to have an alternative weekly paper.

The industry itself made news, took journalistic risk, provided arts criticism, schedules, and "happenings", and did not mince words re local and national politics.

The both of them, with an array of investors, bought the "Scene" from Inman and transformed it from a driveway throw-away to a long respected voice in Nashville's civic, arts, and political community.

On 26 July 1996, the paper's editor, Bruce Dobie, and its publisher, Albie Del Favero, bought Nashville Scene for $2.5 million.

In 1999, Del Favero and Dobie formed a group of investors and purchased Stern Publishing,[5] then-owner of the Village Voice and five other alternative newsweeklies across the nation.

[10] On September 27, 2007, Ferrell announced his resignation[11] as publisher of the Nashville Scene and, two weeks later, was replaced by long-time Scene retail sales account executive Mike Smith,[12] who took the title of associate publisher in line with the post-merger title structuring of Village Voice Media.

[19][20] In May 2018, the Nashville Scene and the Nashville Post were purchased by the Freeman Webb Company, a company co-founded by Bill Freeman and Jimmy Webb which owns and manages "more than 16,000 apartment units and 1 million square feet of office space" in Tennessee, Alabama, Missouri, Georgia and Mississippi.