Emmis Communications Announces Stock Repurchase Plan

Emmis Communications Announces Stock Repurchase Plan

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Emmis Communications Corporation (NASDAQ:EMMS) announced today that the Company's Board of Directors has authorized the repurchase of its Common Stock, up to an aggregate value of $50 million. Transactions may occur from time to time, either on the open market or privately negotiated. Purchases are expected to be financed through cash flows from operations and borrowings under Emmis' existing credit facility. The stock repurchase is subject to prevailing market conditions and other considerations.

Emmis Communications -- Great Media, Great People, Great Service(R)

Emmis is an Indianapolis-based diversified media firm with radio broadcasting, television broadcasting and magazine publishing operations. Emmis owns 21 FM and 2 AM domestic radio stations serving the nation's largest markets of New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, as well as St. Louis, Austin, Indianapolis and Terre Haute, Ind. In May 2005, Emmis announced its intent to seek strategic alternatives for its 16 television stations, and has since sold 15 of them. Emmis also owns a radio network, international radio stations, regional and specialty magazines, an interactive business and ancillary businesses in broadcast sales.

The information in this news release is being widely disseminated in accordance with the Securities & Exchange Commission's Regulation FD.

Note: Certain statements included in this release or in the attached financial data which are not statements of historical fact, including but not limited to those identified with the words "expect," "will" or "look" are intended to be, and are, by this Note, identified as "forward-looking statements," as defined in the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the company to be materially different from any future result, performance or achievement expressed or implied by such forward-looking statement. Such factors include, among others:

   -- general economic and business conditions;   -- fluctuations in the demand for advertising and demand for different      types of advertising media;   -- our ability to service our outstanding debt;   -- increased competition in our markets and the broadcasting industry;   -- our ability to attract and secure programming, on-air talent, writers      and photographers;   -- inability to obtain (or to obtain timely) necessary approvals for      purchase or sale transactions or to complete the transactions for other      reasons generally beyond our control;   -- changes in radio audience measurement methodologies;   -- increases in the costs of programming, including on-air talent;   -- inability to grow through suitable acquisitions;   -- new or changing regulations of the Federal Communications Commission or      other governmental agencies;   -- competition from new or different technologies;   -- war, terrorist acts or political instability; and   -- other factors mentioned in documents filed by the company with the      Securities and Exchange Commission.   

Emmis does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements because of new information, future events or otherwise.

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Source: Emmis Communications Corporation

CONTACT: Patrick Walsh, CFO, or Jodi Wright, Media & Investor Relations,
+1-317-266-0100, both of Emmis Communications Corporation

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

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