<ARTICLE>                     5
<LEGEND>
This schedule  contains summary financial  information  extracted from financial
statements  in the Form 10-Q of Brill  Media  Company,  LLC for the nine  months
ended  November  30, 1998 and is  qualified in its entirety by reference to such
financial statements.
</LEGEND>

       
                             
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