FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, August 24, 2004

Media General to Release Third-Quarter 2004 Earnings, Host Conference Call on October 15

RICHMOND, Va. – Media General (NYSE:MEG) will release third-quarter 2004 earnings on Friday, October 15, 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 an earnings 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 1-800-475-3716 about 10 minutes prior to the 11 a.m. start. Listeners may also access the live webcast by logging on to www.mediageneral.com and clicking on the “Live Earnings Conference” link at the top of the homepage about 10 minutes in advance.

A replay of the webcast will be available on-line at www.mediageneral.com beginning at 1 p.m. on October 15. A replay also is available by telephone, beginning at 2 p.m. and ending on October 22 at midnight, by dialing 1-888-203-1112 or 719-457-0820 and using the passcode 940136.

About Media General
Media General 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.

Investor Contact:
Lou Anne Nabhan
(804) 649-6103

Media Contact:
Ray Kozakewicz
(804) 649-6748