Michael J. Mathieu named President of Freedom’s Internet Division

IRVINE, Calif.—June 21, 2006—Michael J. Mathieu has been named President of Freedom’s newly formed Internet Division. He assumes his official duties on June 26.

As a critical member of Freedom’s Senior Executive Team, reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, this new position is responsible for developing and implementing Freedom’s strategy to increase its market share, revenues and profit from the Internet.

“We are fortunate that Michael has accepted the opportunity to lead our interactive strategy and execution,” said Freedom’s Chief Executive Officer Scott Flanders. “Michael joins us from United Online, a public company with such recognizable brands as NetZero, Juno, Classmates.com, and MyPoints. With Michael’s appointment, Freedom is on its way to realizing our Internet-related revenue goals.”

For the past six years, Michael served as Vice President and Senior Vice President of United Online, Inc., a leading provider of consumer Internet and media services. He conceived and implemented the strategy that brought together multiple organizations into one cohesive group that represented all the online advertising, search, and commerce revenues for the company. Under his leadership, the group consistently achieved double digit annual revenue growth and is now ranked as one of the top 15 properties on the Internet. Earlier in his career, Michael worked for AT&T, CompuServe, and Wang Laboratories holding various positions in sales and marketing.

“I’m excited to work with the team at Freedom to help grow interactive revenues”, said Mathieu. “Freedom’s local content offers tremendous opportunities to take advantage of the explosive growth in online advertising”.

Michael currently lives in Los Angeles and is looking forward to relocating to Orange County with Freedom.

Freedom Communications, headquartered in Irvine, Calif., is a national privately owned information and entertainment company of print publications, broadcast television stations and interactive businesses. The company’s portfolio includes more than 70 newspapers, including The Orange County Register, magazines and other specialty publications, plus news, information and entertainment websites to complement its print and broadcast properties. Freedom’s community and metro newspaper publications have a combined circulation of more than one million subscribers. The broadcast stations—five CBS and three ABC network affiliates—reach more than 3.5 million households across the country.