BB&T First Quarter 2006 Earnings Release and Conference Call Webcast.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- BB&T Corporation (NYSE: BBT), a regional financial holding company, will report its first quarter 2006 earnings prior to market opening on Thursday, April 20, 2006. John A. Allison, chairman and CEO and Christopher L. Henson, chief financial officer, will host a conference call to discuss first quarter performance on April 20, beginning at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

This conference call is being webcast by Vcall and may be accessed at BB&T's web site at www.BBT.com/investor/. Investors may also access the webcast at www.InvestorCalendar.com. A replay of the webcast will be available until 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday, May 5, 2006.

BB&T Corporation, headquartered in Winston-Salem, NC, is a fast growing, highly profitable financial holding company with more than $109 billion in assets. Its bank subsidiaries operate more than 1,400 financial centers in the Carolinas, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Georgia, Maryland, Tennessee, Florida, Alabama, Indiana and Washington, D.C. BB&T ranks No. 2 in market share in North Carolina, No. 3 in South Carolina, No. 2 in Virginia/Washington D.C., No. 4 in Kentucky, No. 1 in West Virginia, No. 6 in Georgia and No. 6 in Maryland.