FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, June 25, 2004

Media General TV Stations Earn National Murrow Awards

Richmond , Va. – Media General’s Wichita, Kan., station KWCH-TV and its Savannah, Ga., station WSAV-TV have both won national Edward R. Murrow Awards for outstanding achievements in electronic journalism. The annual awards of the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) are among the nation’s most prestigious journalism awards.

KWCH is a two-time national Murrow winner, having won the association’s award for Continuing Coverage in a small market in 2003. This year, the station won in the same category for its investigative series that examined questionable practices in Wichita’s City Hall.

WSAV received the News Series award for its News 3 at 6 evening newscast.

“We’re thrilled to see our stations honored this way,” said Reid Ashe, Media General’s president and chief operating officer. “The distinguishing feature of Media General’s television stations, just as its websites and newspapers, has to be strong local news. That’s at the heart of our mission and that’s our competitive edge.”

KWCH and WSAV were among seven Media General television and online enterprises that won 15 regional Murrow awards in April.

The RTDNA has been honoring outstanding achievements in electronic journalism with the Edward R. Murrow Awards since 1971. Murrow Award recipients demonstrate the spirit of excellence that pioneer reporter Edward R. Murrow made a standard for the broadcast news profession.

About Media General
Media General (NYSE:MEG) is an independent communications company situated primarily in the Southeast with interests in newspapers, television stations and interactive media. 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 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.

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