FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, Sept. 7, 2001

Media General Broadcast Division Promotes Huey to Vice President and General Manager of WIAT-TV

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Media General's Broadcast Division has named J.D. Huey vice president and general manager of WIAT-TV, the company's CBS affiliate in Birmingham. He was previously the station's general sales manager.

"WIAT is at a stage of development that requires strong revenue generation, and J.D. has successfully led that effort during the past two years," said Bill Diaz, a vice president in Media General's Broadcast Division.

Huey came to WIAT from Fox Sports in Atlanta, where he also served as general sales manager. Before that, he worked his way up through sales management positions of progressive responsibility at KTXA-TV/Paramount Stations Group in Dallas.

"J.D. is a talented sales executive with more than 20 years of broadcast experience," Diaz said. "I am confident that in his new capacity as general manager, he will lead WIAT to the next level."

About Media General
Media General is an independent, publicly owned communications company situated primarily in the Southeast with interests in newspapers, television stations, interactive media and diversified information services. The company's publishing assets include The Tampa Tribune, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Winston-Salem Journal and 22 other daily newspapers in Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Alabama and South Carolina, as well as nearly 100 other periodicals and a 20 percent interest in The Denver Post. Media General's 26 network-affiliated television stations reach more than 30 percent of the television households in the Southeast, and nearly 8 percent of those in the United States. The company's extensive interactive media offerings include more than 50 online enterprises. Media General also has a 33 percent interest in SP Newsprint Co., which operates newsprint mills in Dublin, Ga., and Newberg, Ore.