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RICHMOND, Va., April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Media General, Inc. (NYSE: MEG), a local broadcast television and digital media company, said today that shareholders at the company's 2013 Annual Meeting re-elected eight directors to one-year terms: J. Stewart Bryan III, chairman; Marshall N. Morton, vice chairman; Diana F. Cantor, Dennis J. FitzSimons, Wyndham Robertson, Rodney A. Smolla, Carl S. Thigpen and Coleman Wortham III. Additionally, George L. Mahoney, Media General's...

RICHMOND, Va., March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Media General (NYSE: MEG) today filed its Notice of 2013 Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). George L. Mahoney, president and chief executive officer of Media General, has been nominated to stand for election to the Board of Directors at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders on April 25, 2013. Mr. Mahoney assumed his current position on January 1, 2013. Previously, he had been vice...

RICHMOND, Va., March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Media General, Inc. (NYSE: MEG), a local broadcast television and digital media company, is participating today in the Deutsche Bank 2013 dbAccess Media, Internet & Telecom Conference. George Mahoney, president and chief executive officer, and Jim Woodward, vice president-finance and chief financial officer, will present from 4:05-4:40 p.m. EST in a Q&A discussion with Deutsche Bank equity analyst Matthew Chesler and will meet with...

RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Media General, Inc. (NYSE: MEG), a broadcast television and digital media company, announced today that it is strengthening the content and technology for its broadcast websites and mobile platforms with a new content management system provided by Worldnow. "Worldnow's content management system was created with broadcasters in mind," said Andy Lobred, vice president, digital media for Media General. "Worldnow's extensive broadcast-centric...

RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Media General, Inc. (NYSE: MEG), a local broadcast television and digital media company, announced today that it has sold The Tampa Tribune and its associated print and digital products to Tampa Media Group, Inc., a new company formed by Revolution Capital Group. The sale closed today. The sale price was $9.5 million, subject to adjustments for working capital and other items, yielding net proceeds before expenses of approximately $2...

RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Media General, Inc. (NYSE: MEG) announced today that Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.A and BRK.B) has exercised its warrants to purchase 4,646,220 shares of the company's Class A common stock. The exercise price for these warrants was 1 cent per share. The warrants were issued as part of a new credit agreement that Media General and Berkshire Hathaway completed on May 24, 2012. Following Berkshire Hathaway's warrants exercise, Media...

RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Media General, Inc. (NYSE: MEG) said that WFLA-TV, its NBC affiliate in Tampa, Fla., is the first broadcast television station in the Tampa market, and the second Media General station, to launch mobile digital television (MDTV). The real-time local broadcast service began during the week of October 11 in Tampa, and can be received on suitably equipped laptops, mobile phones and other portable devices. WCMH-TV, Media General's Columbus, Ohio, NBC...

RICHMOND, Va., March 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Media General (NYSE: MEG) today said its eight NBC-affiliated broadcast television stations generated $7.6 million in advertising revenues from the 2010 Winter Olympics, compared with its previously announced expectation of $7 million. On the audience side, the outstanding performance by Team USA in the 2010 Games, combined with the strength of Media General's local brands and their aggressive marketing commitments, drove very strong...

TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Janet Coats, vice president for news for the Florida Communications Group and executive editor of The Tampa Tribune, is leaving the company, effective December 18th. Coats said the decision is motivated by her desire to spend more time with her husband, Rusty Coats, who has been based in Knoxville since he accepted a job with the E.W. Scripps Co. "We've been commuting between Tampa and Knoxville for the last 20 months and we'd like the...

TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- CENTRO Mi Diario, the largest Spanish language weekly publication in the Tampa Bay area, recently concluded the translation of more than 300 exhibit descriptions for the new Tampa Bay History Center. The inclusion of Spanish captions will allow the new Center to provide an in-language experience to the more than 400,000 Hispanics living in the Tampa DMA. Both organizations started working together back in July of 2008 so that materials would be...