News Release

Louisville, KY - WHAS11 announced today that Genie Garner has been named News Director of WHAS11NEWS beginning December 3, 2007. She will join WHAS11 from KMOV in St. Louis, MO where she has been the Assistant News Director for the past three years and recent recipient of the prestigious Peabody award for her 2006 news documentary "Left Behind: The Failure of East St. Louis Schools."

In making the announcement, Mark Pimentel, WHAS11 President and General Manager said, "Genie is the right person to lead WHAS11NEWS to the serious minded journalism we want to produce and reporting that examines the community issues that is also the strong legacy of this station."

Prior to her tenure KMOV-TV Garner was the News Director at WTHI-TV in Terre Haute, IN and has extensive experience in various news management positions including Executive Producer, Assignment Editor, plus several years producing newscasts. Garner is a 1982 graduate of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

The WHAS11 is part of Belo Corp., one of the nation's largest media companies with a diversified group of market-leading television, newspaper, cable and interactive media assets. A Fortune 1000 company with 7,000 employees and more than $1.6 billion in annual revenues, Belo operates in some of America's most dynamic markets in Texas, the Northwest, the Southwest, the Mid-Atlantic and Rhode Island. Belo owns 20 television stations, six of which are in the 15 largest U.S. broadcast markets. The Company also owns or operates six cable news channels and manages one television station through a local marketing agreement. Belo's daily newspapers are The Dallas Morning News, The Providence Journal, The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA) and the Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, TX). The Company also publishes specialty publications targeting young adults, and the fast-growing Hispanic market, including Quick and Al Dia in Dallas/Fort Worth, and El D and La Prensa in Riverside. Belo operates more than 30 Web sites associated with its operating companies. Additional information is available at www.belo.com or by contacting Kirk Szesny, Director of Marketing and Creative Services at 502-582-7870.