Indiana Broadcasters Association Lifetime Achievement Award 2011

INDIANAPOLIS, June 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — The Indiana Broadcasters Association
is pleased to announce that Jeff Smulyan, Chairman & CEO of Emmis
Communications, will be honored with the prestigious Indiana Broadcasters
Association Lifetime Achievement Award at its October dinner.

Smulyan has been a radio industry leader for decades, through the Indiana
Broadcasters Association and the National Association of Broadcasters in
Washington.

“Jeff represents the very best that the Indiana Broadcast industry has to
offer,” said Linda Compton, President & CEO of the IBA. “We are delighted to
recognize his unflagging passion for our industry through this lifetime
achievement honor.”

This award, created in 2006, recognizes individuals for especially meritorious
service, contributions to or achievements in the field of broadcasting in
Indiana over the course of a career. This is the Indiana Broadcasters
Association highest honor and is presented to an Indiana broadcaster whose work
is unusually beneficial and of superior value to their community and to the
Association.

Smulyan, the founder of Indianapolis-based Emmis Communications, has grown the
company from one station in Shelbyville, Indiana, to one of the top radio
operators in the country, with a portfolio of 21 radio stations from Los Angeles
to Chicago. Emmis is the 8th largest publicly traded radio group in the U.S.
based on total listeners.

The award ceremony will be held in conjunction with the Indiana Broadcasters
Association and Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame event, to be held
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at The Fountains, Carmel, Indiana.

SOURCE Emmis Communications