Young Broadcasting Inc. Will Hold Conference Call to Discuss First Quarter Earnings

Business Wire, April 30, 2004

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 30, 2004

Young Broadcasting Inc. ("YBI") (NASDAQ:YBTVA) has scheduled a conference call for Monday, May 10, 2004 at 11:00 AM (ET) immediately following the release of its first quarter earnings report. The Company's press release will be issued through Business Wire at 7:00 AM that day. The full text of the release will be available on Bloomberg, Nexus, CompuServe, Dow Jones News Retrieval and several other services within 15 minutes of the scheduled release time.

You may participate in the conference call by dialing 1-888-552-9135 (Passcode: YOUNG, Leader: Vincent Young). This will enable you to listen to the presentation. At the end of the presentation you will have the opportunity to participate in a Q&A session with Vincent Young, CEO of Young Broadcasting Inc. and with James Morgan, the company's CFO.

You may listen to a live webcast of the call by going to http://youngbroadcasting.com. The archive will be available for replay through June 10, 2004. The webcast is also being distributed over CCBN's Investor Distribution Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call through CCBN's individual investor center at www.companyboardroom.com or by visiting any of the investor sites in CCBN's Individual Investor Network. Institutional investors can access the call via CCBN's password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com). You may listen to a telephone replay of the entire call by dialing 1-800-216-3087 through May 14, 2004.

Young Broadcasting owns eleven television stations and the national television representation firm, Adam Young Inc. Six stations are affiliated with the ABC Television Network (WKRN-TV - Nashville, TN, WTEN-TV - Albany, NY, WRIC-TV - Richmond, VA, WATE-TV - Knoxville, TN, WTVO-TV - Rockford, IL and WBAY-TV - Green Bay, WI), three are affiliated with the CBS Television Network (WLNS-TV - Lansing, MI, KLFY-TV - Lafayette, LA and KELO-TV - Sioux Falls, SD) and one is affiliated with the NBC Television Network (KWQC-TV - Davenport, IA). KRON-TV - San Francisco, CA is the largest independent station in the U.S. and the only independent VHF station in its market. The Company also operates separate UPN Network stations using its digital broadcast facilities in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Rockford, Illinois.