Granite Broadcasting Corporation Schedules First Quarter 2005 Earnings Release and Teleconference

Granite Broadcasting Corporation Schedules First Quarter 2005 Earnings Release and Teleconference

NEW YORK, April 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Granite Broadcasting Corporation (BULLETIN BOARD: GBTVK) announced today that it will release first quarter 2005 financial results before market hours on Monday, May 2, 2005.

Granite will host a teleconference to discuss its first quarter 2005 financial results Monday, May 2nd at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. To access the teleconference, please dial 212-896-6053 ten minutes prior to the start time. The teleconference will also be available via live webcast on the investor relations portion of the Company's website, located at http://www.granitetv.com/.

If you cannot listen to the teleconference at its normal time, there will be a replay available through May 9, 2005 at noon Eastern Daylight Time that can be accessed by dialing 800-633-8284 (US callers) or +1-402-977-9140 (International callers), passcode: 21242802. The webcast will also be archived on the Company's website for 30 days.

Granite Broadcasting Corporation (BULLETIN BOARD: GBTVK) operates eight television stations in geographically diverse markets reaching over 6% of the nation's television households. Four stations are affiliated with the NBC Television Network (NBC), one with the ABC Television Network (ABC), one with the CBS Television Network (CBS), and two with the Warner Brothers Television Network (WB). The NBC affiliates are KSEE-TV, Fresno-Visalia, California, WEEK-TV, Peoria-Bloomington, Illinois, WISE-TV, Fort Wayne, Indiana and KBJR-TV, Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin. The ABC affiliate is WKBW-TV, Buffalo, New York. The CBS affiliate is WTVH-TV, Syracuse, New York. The WB affiliates are KBWB-TV, San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, California, and WDWB-TV, Detroit, Michigan. Granite also operates the WB affiliate in Fort Wayne and the UPN affiliate in Duluth. Granite has entered into a strategic arrangement with Malara Broadcast Group under which Granite will provide advertising sales, promotion and administrative services and selected programming to Malara-owned stations WPTA-TV, the ABC affiliate in Fort Wayne, Indiana and KDLH-TV, the CBS affiliate in Duluth, Minnesota- Superior, Wisconsin.

Source: Granite Broadcasting Corporation

CONTACT: Press Contact, W. Don Cornwell, or Analyst Contact, Larry Wills, both of Granite Broadcasting Corporation +1-212-826-2530

Web site: http://www.granitetv.com/

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