Media General to Announce Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year 2007 Results, Host Conference Call on January 31

Media General to Announce Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year 2007 Results, Host Conference Call on January 31

RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Media General, Inc. (NYSE:MEG) will announce its fourth-quarter and full-year 2007 results on Thursday, January 31, before the market opens. The full text of the release and financials will be available on the company's Web site, http://www.mediageneral.com/.

The company will hold a conference call with financial analysts that day at 2:30 p.m. ET. The conference call will be available to the media and general public through a limited number of listen-only dial-in conference lines and via simultaneous Webcast.

To dial in to the call, listeners may call 1-800-329-9097 about 10 minutes prior to the 2:30 p.m. start. Listeners may also access the live Webcast by logging on to http://www.mediageneral.com/ and clicking on the "Live Earnings Conference" link on the homepage about 10 minutes in advance.

A replay of the Webcast will be available online at http://www.mediageneral.com/ beginning at 4:30 p.m. on January 31, 2008. A telephone replay is also available, beginning at 4:30 p.m. and ending at 4:30 p.m. February 7, 2008, by dialing 1-888-286-8010 or 617-801-6888, and using the passcode 42270475.

About Media General

Media General is a multimedia company operating leading newspapers, television stations and online enterprises primarily in the Southeastern United States. The company's publishing assets include three metropolitan newspapers, The Tampa Tribune, Richmond Times-Dispatch, and Winston-Salem Journal; 22 daily community newspapers in Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Alabama and South Carolina; and more than 150 weekly newspapers and other publications. The company's broadcasting assets include 23 network-affiliated television stations that reach more than 32 percent of the television households in the Southeast and nearly 9.5 percent of those in the United States. The company's interactive media assets include more than 75 online enterprises that are associated with its newspapers and television stations. Media General also owns a 33 percent interest in SP Newsprint Company, a manufacturer of recycled newsprint.

First Call Analyst:
FCMN Contact: mgoodhead@mediageneral.com

Source: Media General, Inc.

CONTACT: Investors: Lou Anne Nabhan, +1-804-649-6103, or Media: Ray
Kozakewicz, +1-804-649-6748, both of Media General, Inc.

Web site:

http://www.mediageneral.com/

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