Young Broadcasting Inc. and Spartan TV, LLC Announce Joint Operations Agreement between WLNS-TV and WHTV-TV for Lansing Market; New Partnership is First of its Kind for Young Broadcasting.

NEW YORK & LANSING, Mich. -- Young Broadcasting Inc. ("YBI" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:YBTVA) today announced that its Lansing, Michigan station WLNS-TV (a CBS affiliate) has reached a three-year Joint Sales and Shared Services agreement with Spartan TV, LLC's WHTV-TV (a UPN affiliate licensed to Jackson/Lansing, Michigan). The agreement which goes into effect on January 26th 2006, covers all advertising sales, traffic and engineering functions including operation of master control for WHTV-TV. The announcement was jointly made today by Vincent Young, Chairman of YBI and Paul Koplin, President of Spartan TV.

Said Mr. Young, "This agreement, the first of its kind for our broadcast group, provides WLNS with a nice complement to our existing sports packages including National Football League games and Michigan State football and basketball. WHTV, which attracts a younger, male-dominated audience, gives our local sales team the opportunity to sell advertisers a demographic that is complimentary to ours."

Mr. Koplin, who also serves on the UPN Board of Governors added, "Because UPN and CBS are now owned by VIACOM/CBS it only makes sense that we take full advantage of the network synergies."

Spartan TV, LLC will maintain ownership of WHTV-TV and will continue to handle all programming for the station. The station's varied programming includes the UPN prime-time line-up, such syndicated shows as "People's Court, Friends" and "Malcolm In The Middle," and professional sports -- Detroit Pistons National Basketball Association (NBA) games and Detroit Red Wings National Hockey League (NHL) games.

About Spartan TV, LLC

Spartan TV, which owns WHTV-TV, is managed by Venture Technologies Group, LLC. Venture Technologies owns and operates several television stations across the United States.

About Young Broadcasting Inc.

Young Broadcasting owns ten television stations and the national television representation firm, Adam Young Inc. Five stations are affiliated with the ABC Television Network (WKRN-TV - Nashville, TN, WTEN-TV - Albany, NY, WRIC-TV Richmond, VA, WATE-TV - Knoxville, TN, and WBAY-TV - Green Bay, WI), three are affiliated with the CBS Television Network (WLNS-TV - Lansing, MI, KLFY-TV - Lafayette, LA and KELO-TV - Sioux Falls, SD) and one is affiliated with the NBC Television Network (KWQC-TV - Davenport, IA). KRON-TV - San Francisco, CA is the largest independent station in the U.S. and the only independent VHF station in its market. The Company also operates a separate UPN Network station using its digital broadcast facilities in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.