Belo to Present at Bear Stearns 21st Annual Media Conference

Belo to Present at Bear Stearns 21st Annual Media Conference

DALLAS, March 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Belo Corp. (NYSE:BLC) will present at the Bear Stearns 21st Annual Media Conference at The Breakers in Palm Beach, Florida on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. Dunia Shive, Belo's president and Chief Executive Officer, and Dennis Williamson, Belo's executive vice president and Chief Financial Officer, will provide a brief overview of the Company's new status as a pure-play television business and will answer questions from the audience.

The presentation will be simultaneously Webcast on the Company's Web site at (http://www.belo.com/invest). Following the conclusion of the presentation, a replay of the Webcast will be archived on Belo's Web site.

About Belo

Belo Corp. is one of the nation's largest pure-play publicly-traded television companies, with annual revenue of approximately $775 million. The Company owns and operates 20 television stations reaching more than 14 percent of U.S. television households, including ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CW and MyNetwork TV affiliates, and their associated Web sites, in 15 highly-attractive markets across the United States. Belo stations consistently deliver distinguished journalism for which they have received significant industry recognition including nine Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton Awards; eight George Foster Peabody Awards; and 19 national Edward R. Murrow Awards -- all since 2000, and in each case more than any other commercial station group in the nation. Nearly all Belo stations rank first or second in their local market. Belo owns stations in seven of the top 25 markets in the nation, with six stations located in the fast-growing, top-14 markets of Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Seattle/Tacoma and Phoenix. Additionally, the Company has leveraged its local television assets to create regional cable news channels in Texas and the Northwest increasing its impact in those regions. Additional information is available at http://www.belo.com/ or by contacting Paul Fry, vice president/Investor Relations & Corporate Communications, at 214-977-6835.

First Call Analyst: Carey P. Hendrickson
FCMN Contact: mmackey@belo.com

Source: Belo Corp.

CONTACT: Paul Fry, vice president, Investor Relations & Corporate
Communications of Belo Corp., +1-214-977-6835

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

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