Local News To Be Available On Cell Phones

WFMY News 2 Set To Deliver Constantly Updated Local News Over Wireless

Greensboro/High Point/Winston-Salem, NC, (March 17, 2006) -- WFMY News 2 will soon begin providing local news and weather directly to cell phones . Wireless customers with data enabled phones will be able to access WFMY News 2's local news, weather, and sports stories and video. The announcement was made today by Deborah Hooper, President and General Manager of WFMY News 2 and by Sam Matheny, General Manager of News Over Wireless.

WFMY News 2 and News Over Wireless will keep users up to date with current local weather information and forecasts, local news, local sports scores and video. The service gives users "anywhere access" to the resources of WFMY News 2's news room and will be available for a low subscription price. The availability and price for WFMY News 2 News Over Wireless will be announced soon.

"This is another major step to make sure our customers can access our local news and weather any time and any place they want it," said Deborah Hooper, President and General Manager of WFMY News 2. "Our customers want multiple options to access news at any time from anywhere. We are working quickly to make sure that local information is available when and where our customers need it."

"We are excited about our partnership with WFMY News 2 and working with them to deploy a custom wireless solution to reach their viewers in yet another way," said Sam Matheny, General Manager of News Over Wireless. "This is another example of why WFMY News 2 is the Triad's news leader."

About WFMY News 2

WFMY News 2 is a Gannett Television Station. Gannett Co., Inc. is a leading international news and information company that publishes 101 daily newspapers in the USA, including USA TODAY, the nation's largest-selling daily newspaper. The company also owns more than 750 non-daily publications in the USA and USA WEEKEND, a weekly newspaper magazine. Gannett subsidiary Newsquest is the United Kingdom's second largest regional newspaper company. Newsquest publishes more than 300 titles, including 17 daily newspapers, and a network of prize-winning Web sites. Gannett also operates 21 television stations in the United States and is an Internet leader with sites sponsored by its TV stations and newspapers including USATODAY.com, one of the most popular news sites on the Web.

About News Over Wireless and Capitol Broadcasting Company

News Over Wireless is a division of CBC New Media Group, LLC, which is wholly owned by Capitol Broadcasting Co., Inc. News Over Wireless deployed the nation's first mobile wireless application for local TV stations and has the largest deployed network of local television applications.

Capitol Broadcasting Company, Inc. is a diversified communications company which owns and/or operates WRAL-TV, WRAL Digital, WRAL-FM, WRAL-HD2, Microspace, the North Carolina News Network, CBC New Media Group and Wolfpack Sports Marketing in Raleigh, NC; WJZY-TV and WWWB-TV in Charlotte, NC; WILM-TV in Wilmington, NC; WRAZ-TV and The Durham Bulls in Durham, NC; the Myrtle Beach Pelicans Baseball Club in Myrtle Beach, SC; and various real estate interests in North Carolina.