NEWS RELEASE
                        
July 28, 1997           Contact: David B Amy, Chief Financial Officer          
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE            Patrick Talamantes, Dir. of Corporate Finance 
Baltimore, MD                    Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.                
                                 (410) 467-5005                                

                                                           
UPDATE ON SINCLAIR'S ACQUISITION OF HERITAGE MEDIA TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS

     BALTIMORE,  July 28 / -- Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (Nasdaq-NNM:  SBGI)
has  previously  announced an agreement  to purchase  the  television  and radio
stations of Heritage Media, which acquisition is subject to regulatory  approval
of the  acquisition  of Heritage  Media by News  Corporation.  Heritage and News
Corporation issued the following press release today:

     "After the close of trading on July 25,  1997,  staff of the San  Francisco
field office of the  Antitrust  Division,  United  States  Department of Justice
Antitrust Division, informed Heritage Media Corporation and The News Corporation
that on July 28, 1997 they would forward the  recommendation  to  supervisors in
the Antitrust  Division in Washington,  D.C.,  that the Division  challenge News
Corporation's  acquisition of Heritage under Section 7 of the Clayton  Antitrust
Act.

     "The Antitrust  Division staff requested that Heritage and News Corporation
extend  the period of time  during  which the  Antitrust  Division  must  either
challenge the  transaction  or allow it to close,  in order to afford  Antitrust
Division supervisory staff time to review the field office recommendation and to
allow  Heritage and News  Corporation  to present  their  position as to why the
transaction should be allowed to proceed.

     "Heritage  Media  and  News  Corporation  will  grant  this  extension  and
vigorously pursue the approval of the acquisition by the Department of Justice."

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