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For immediate release
April 6, 2006
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Steve Tippie
Media Relations
Tribune Media Services
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Tribune Media Services Appoints John Zelenka Director of Business Development

Chicago, IL, April 6, 2006 — Tribune Media Services (TMS), a subsidiary of Tribune Company (NYSE:TRB), today announced the appointment of John Zelenka as director of business development. Zelenka previously served as senior business development manager at TMS. He succeeds Jay Fehnel, who was appointed vice president of the entertainment products group in February.
"In the three years he has been with TMS, John has played a key role in strategy development and business planning, both for the company as a whole and on critical projects for our entertainment products operating division,” said David D. Williams, TMS' president and chief executive officer. “His leadership on these projects contributed to our significant gains in market share, revenue and profit.”
Zelenka began his career at TMS in 2003 as business development manager. In 2005, he was promoted to senior business development manager. Zelenka previously worked as an account manager for the Orbis Broadcast Group, account supervisor for BSMG Worldwide Marketing Communications (now Weber Shandwick), and as a producer for ABC News One in Chicago.
Zelenka is a 2002 graduate of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He also holds a master’s degree in journalism from the Medill School at Northwestern University and a BS in communications from Ohio University.
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Tribune Media Services (TMS) is a leading provider of information and entertainment products for print, electronic and on-air media in the U.S. and abroad. It distributes TV and movie listings and related editorial content under the TMS and Zap2it brands; syndicates comics, features and opinion columns; creates and syndicates a variety of online information products; licenses editorial content from national periodicals; and manages national advertising networks. Through its Knight Ridder/Tribune partnership, TMS also markets news, features, information graphics and multimedia content to media clients around the world. Headquartered in Chicago, with offices in Los Angeles, New York, Glens Falls, N.Y., Dallas, Houston, Milwaukee, Amsterdam, London and Hong Kong, TMS is a subsidiary of Tribune Company (NYSE:TRB). For more information about TMS and its products and services, visit www.TMS.Tribune.com.