Welcome to the second quarter 2008 Media General earnings conference call. (Operator Instructions) I would now like to turn the presentation over to your host for today’s call, Lou Anne Nabhan, Vice President.

Welcome to Media General’s conference call and webcast. Earlier today we announced second quarter 2008 results and June 2008 revenues. Both press releases have been posted on our website. The comments from today’s conference call will be posted immediately following the call. Today’s presentation does contain forward-looking statements which are subject to various risks and uncertainties. They should be understood in the context of the company’s publicly available reports filed with the SEC. Media General’s future performance could differ materially from its current expectations. Our speakers today will be Marshall Morton, President and Chief Executive Officer; Reid Ashe, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer; and John Schauss, Vice President-Finance and Chief Financial Officer. Marshall will be our first speaker.

For the second quarter, we reported earnings from continuing operations of $0.08 per share, not including severance costs of $0.14 per share. This result is consistent with the guidance we provided on June 10. The results we reported today for the second quarter are preliminary only because we are completing impairment testing of goodwill and other intangible assets. We expect to record a non-cash impairment charge in the range of $500 million to $550 million after tax. We will report the final amount when we file our Form 10-Q, on or before August 8. The charge will reduce the book value of goodwill, FCC license, and network affiliation intangibles, and certain other assets. We determined that, in view of the continued economic slowdown, along with the market’s perception of media industry equity valuations, that this was the appropriate time to undertake impairment testing. The charge, of course, is non-cash and will not impact our ability to operate, reduce debt, or move forward with our ongoing transition to the digital world. Looking at the quarter on the basis of continuing operations, our performance was primarily attributable to decreased publishing segment profit. Partially mitigating the year-over-year drop in divisional profits was lower interest expense and an additional gain related to last year’s fire at our Richmond printing plant. Total operating costs in the second quarter, excluding severance, decreased 6% compared with the prior year, reflecting the benefit of the aggressive actions we have taken to reduce our workforce and cut other costs. We have taken significant action to reduce costs since the beginning of 2007. Once the last details of our plans are executed in the third quarter, we will have reduced FTEs by 750 from the 6,900 that were in the place at the beginning of 2007. Importantly, we will have removed approximately $40 million of annualized cost. We began to see some of these savings in 2007, expect to net about 40% of that amount for the full-year 2008, and will benefit fully from these actions in 2009. All of the associated severance expense has been accounted for. Moving on to asset sales, we were pleased to complete the sale this week of the second and third of five stations we are divesting. Late Tuesday, we closed on the sale of our stations in Panama City, Florida, and Alexandria, Louisiana, to Hoak Media. We continue to expect to realize total proceeds from the sales of all five stations of $100 million to $105 million. The proceeds have been and will be used to reduce debt. The total reduction is expected to be $60 million to $65 million after tax. Now I’ll ask Reid to provide more details on the performance of our three operating divisions in the second quarter.

For the second quarter, publishing division profits of $6.8 million compared with profits of $22.6 million a year ago. Revenues declined from $133 million to $114 million. Classified, down 29.5%, drove the bulk of the loss. The largest shortfall occurred in Florida, followed by Richmond. Retail revenue decreased 6.3%, mostly in Florida. National revenue declined 19.2%, again mainly in Florida. Publishing expenses in the quarter decreased 7.2%, not including severance charges. The largest operating expense savings were in other departmental expenses, newsprint, salaries, and benefits. Newsprint expense declined 12.3% as a result of reduced consumption partially offset by higher average prices, up $49 per ton. All of our newspapers are significantly reducing newsprint consumption. Many have re-designed or combined sections and eliminated less-essential content. The Bristol Herald Courier trimmed its page width to 11 inches this week and several others are queued up to follow. Overall we expect to cut newsprint expense 5% this year, despite a 15% increase in price. We closed our printing facility in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier this month. We now print the Charlottesville Daily Progress in our Richmond plant and The Waynesboro News Virginian, formerly printed in Charlottesville, in our new Lynchburg plant. Our ongoing consolidation program has reduced print sites from 25 to 13, saving both operating and capital expense. Turning now to the broadcast division, profit of $14.9 million compared with $18 million in last year’s second quarter. Time sales declined 5% due to decreased local and national advertising that more than offset an increase in political advertising. Political revenues in the quarter totaled $2.8 million. The automotive, furniture and entertainment categories showed the largest declines in the quarter. Media General’s time sales performance has exceeded that of the television industry year-to-date. According to the Television Bureau of Advertising’s monthly group survey, through May,…

Let me comment first on below-the-line items in the quarter. Interest expense of $10.5 million was $4.6 million lower than last year’s second quarter, due mainly to lower interest rates but also aided by lower average debt levels. We expect interest expense for the full year to be approximately $42 million, compared with $60 million for the full-year 2007 as a result of our de-leveraging plan and lower interest rates. The sale of our interest in SP Newsprint on March 31 eliminated the equity earnings volatility we experienced in the past from that investment. Also of note, we recognized additional gain of $2.8 million related to the insurance proceeds from last year’s Richmond fire. Working with our outside vendors, our operations personnel were able to find less labor-intensive and more efficient ways to clean the remaining presses and the facility. Next, I’d like to briefly discuss capital expenditures, which, in the second quarter, were approximately $4.5 million, compared with $18.3 million in the second quarter of 2007. Of that amount, the publishing division invested $3.1 million, mainly on necessary upgrades to printing equipment in Richmond and Winston-Salem, and further enhancing our integrated advertising system. The investments we have made in printing operations in the past few years are enabling us to further consolidate our newspaper printing sites. We have gone from 25 to 13, including the recent consolidation that Reid discussed for some of our Central Virginia newspapers. The broadcast division spent approximately $1.1 million, mainly for the final phases of construction for its new Myrtle Beach facility and for our new Central Graphics operation. Interactive media division and corporate expenditures were approximately $32,000, primarily for information technology. Debt at the end of the second quarter was $830 million, down from $875 million at the end of the first quarter. Debt outstanding today is $773 million, which reflects the sale proceeds from our TV stations in Panama City, Florida, and Alexandria, Louisiana. And, now I’ll turn it back to Marshall.

As difficult as current business conditions are, Media General has several significant bright spots to look forward to in the second half of this year. For example, we welcome the return of the Summer Olympics to our NBC stations and expect related advertising revenues to be approximately $13 million. The economic downturn, and especially the difficulties in the automotive market, have had a dampening effect on Olympics advertising. As a result, we have adapted our focus to target new to the Olympics advertisers on the local level. Many of these clients could not obtain access to the Olympics before, and we now are succeeding in bringing them to the table. Even in a soft ad market, we will benefit significantly from the Olympics on our eight NBC stations. Our four newest NBC stations will contribute well more than half of the Olympics revenue we are expecting. Political advertising revenues, of course, will also contribute significantly. We expect to generate at least $45 million for the year as a whole. States in which we operate that are benefiting from Senator Obama’s campaign spending include Ohio, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. Ohio and Florida are typical battlegrounds, and his nomination has created a battleground opportunity for Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia. Senator McCain’s campaign has placed advertising in Ohio and Virginia, and Florida is also expected to play a key role. Issues spending has just started. The groups are making their initial plans now and should start in earnest in targeted markets shortly. The exact markets remain undetermined, but history and current trends would indicate that Columbus and Tampa will be the most active of our markets for Presidential issue spending. On the state level, our markets have eight active Senate races. The most intense battles should be in North Carolina…

(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Edward Atorino – Benchmark Capital.

You ran through a little quickly the $40 million annualized savings and how it breaks out this year and last year. 40% is in ’08 and the rest comes in ’09, is that right?

We’re saying that we began the program in ’07 so there was a little savings there. $40 million is the total year-over-year but by the time we get it all implemented in ’08, we’ll recognize about 40% of that, so $16 million -- .

-- in ’08.

And we’ll say $40 million in its entirety in ’09.

You’ll get $40 million in ’09 plus the $16 million?

We’re saying that the total looking at ’07 versus where we are on an annualized rate today, the drop is $40 million, but we haven’t implemented it all at the beginning of ’08. Had we done that, it would have been $40 million, but you’ll see a full $40 million relative to ’07 in ’09 and we expect to trap $16 million of that this year.

Any indication of forward bookings on television pacings at this level?

Let me point to Reid on that one.

Ed, no meaningful change in trends.

Even with political starting to kick in? Or isn’t it kicking in yet?

Political doesn’t get booked this far in advance. It all just sort of comes in tomorrow.

It’s also paid for in advance though.

Absolutely.

This is I guess the $80 million question. Any sign of any kind of bottom anywhere and the classified categories, number one, and in retail, is there a possibility that some of the decline is due to push back in spending given the summer months and maybe for the free school period of fourth quarter, or is it just simply cutting back? Or both?

Ed, I would like to hazard a guess but it would be only a guess and I really don’t have anything to base it on, sorry.

And lastly but not leastly, is there a bottom to the classified decline? Are you starting to reach a core base of advertising? If people are out of business, they’ve gone to zeroes.

I want Reid to answer part of that, but I’m going to say up front that we have wrestled with classified sufficiently over the past year or two that it’s very clear to us that we need other revenue forms as well and it’s pushed us very hard in the direction of direct placed advertising rather than looking for newspaper upsells. When you look at Tampa online as an example, the business is pretty good but the classified fall off is so strong that it masks the new work that’s going on in the online or even in the legacy businesses.

And what are the new product revenues at a run rate or annual rate or... I mean, that’s a very impressive array of revenues you’ve got coming into new areas, and to what extent does it extend beyond Richmond?

Well it extends throughout the organization at differing levels. Tampa is a good example, though, because they’ve got a good organization down there and a very strong website, but we’re building websites with comparable strength throughout the company through the interactive division. Did you want to talk about that, Reid?

Well I can tell you that in the publishing division, something like 8% or 9% of their total revenue is in lines of business that we’ve created in the last five years and we’re working hard to accelerate the creation of more new lines.

Now the Skirt! and that stuff, will that be in the fourth quarter I guess? Third and fourth quarter?

Yes.

Well, tough times, I guess.

Yes. It’s very focusing though. It gets us moving.

I imagine they do. Thanks a lot.

Your next question comes from Richard Tullo – Sidoti & Co.

How much did you pay for DealTaker? What revenue did it contribute to interactive in the second quarter, and what was the operating income for that particular business unit?

Rich, we haven’t given out any of that information. When we announced the DealTaker acquisition back at the end of the first quarter, we resisted that. It’s a private seller. What I can tell you is that the margins are tremendously ahead of what we had pro-formad and its revenue and profit delivery is way beyond pro-forma as well.

Do you think this program to replace waning auto advertising during the Olympics with local advertising, is that going to offset any loss? Is that $13 million estimate still on track?

Well, $13 million is our current estimate and that’s based on the sales t hat we’re making today.

And in regards to cable re-transmission, do you have any guidance as far as how much per sub you’re getting?

No, we’re not ready to give that out yet. We are pushing quite hard. You’ve seen estimates throughout the industry, I know, Rich on that score. We’ve been happy with our negotiations so far and I think the cable providers understand that the future does require compensation.

And in regards to the $500 million asset write down, what percentage of that is going to be intangible with licenses and goodwill? How is that going to break out?

Jon, do you want to talk about that?

Well we haven’t really broken that out fully, Rich. The majority of course will be goodwill but there will be FCC licenses and network affiliations as well.

And am I to assume in my model that this will improve the tax rate with the asset sales, you know, lower your tax rate given that the asset sales probably can’t bring it up to 40% or so?

Well it will, Rich, I think that’s a good assumption, but not by a whole lot. You’re looking at the intangible write down that we just talked about. We do have some long-lived intangibles that are amortizing intangibles as well for part of the write down that we will have.

All right, and what was the average price of newsprint during the quarter?

During the second quarter it was about $600 per ton.

$600 even. Okay, thank you. That’s it, sorry.

Your next question comes from Barry Lucas – Gabelli & Co.

Could you just update us on Cap spending plans? There was a pretty substantive reduction in Q2, so what does it look like for all of 2008 now and where would you put sort of the maintenance level or maybe where the plan would be for the next several years?

John Schauss has a list in front of him so I’m going to hand the question off to him, Barry. We did pull back on CapEx in the second quarter and focused it on things that had either to be completed or had quick payback.

Barry, in the second quarter, of course, we had about $4 million of CapEx. For the full year 2008, we’re looking at about $25 million to $35 million in CapEx. That’s over the $78 million of 2007. $25 million basically is what we’re looking at for our maintenance. Going up that $10 million the $35 would be fire related. As we look out to 2009, we’re right now forecasting or budgeting for about $30 million, between $25 million and $30 million of CapEx.

And at this time you have no further questions.

In that case, thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. We appreciate your interest.