Media General to Announce Second-Quarter 2009 Results, Host Conference Call on July 22

Media General to Announce Second-Quarter 2009 Results, Host Conference Call on July 22

RICHMOND, Va., June 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Media General, Inc. (NYSE:MEG) will announce its second-quarter 2009 results on Wednesday, July 22, before the market opens. The full text of the release and financials will be available on the company's Web site, www.mediageneral.com.

The company will hold a conference call with financial analysts that day at 11 a.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 1-866-356-4441 about 10 minutes prior to the 11 a.m. start. The participant passcode is "Media General." Listeners may also access the live Webcast by logging on to www.mediageneral.com and clicking on the "Live Webcast" link on the homepage about 10 minutes in advance.

A replay of the Webcast will be available online at www.mediageneral.com beginning at 2 p.m. on July 22, 2009. A telephone replay is also available, beginning at 1 p.m. on July 22, 2009 and ending at 2 p.m. on July 29, 2009, by dialing 888-286-8010 or 617-801-6888, and using the passcode 44984905.

About Media General

Media General is a leading provider of local news, information and entertainment over multiple media platforms. The company serves markets primarily in the Southeastern United States. Media General publishes 21 daily newspapers, including The Tampa Tribune, Richmond Times-Dispatch, and Winston-Salem Journal; and community newspapers in Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Alabama and South Carolina; plus more than 250 weekly newspapers and other targeted publications. The company owns and operates 18 network-affiliated television stations that reach 27.5 percent of the television households in the Southeast and more than 8 percent of those in the United States. The company's interactive media operations include Web sites and portals that are associated with each of its newspapers and television stations as well as with many specialty publications, and three growing interactive advertising services companies, Blockdot, Inc., NetInformer and DealTaker.com.

Source: Media General, Inc.

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

Web Site: http://www.mediageneral.com/

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