More than 135,000 Directories Scheduled to be Distributed to Area Residents and Businesses TUSCALOOSA, Ala., Dec. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of Alabama's Bryant-Denny Stadium and Crimson Tide Athletics are featured on the cover of The Real Yellow Pages from BellSouth, the area's leading yellow pages, for 2007 the company announced today. This week, more than 135,000 copies of the directory are scheduled to begin delivery to Tuscaloosa area residents and businesses. "When selecting this year's cover for our Tuscaloosa directory, Bryant- Denny Stadium and Crimson Tide Athletics were a natural to represent the entire area. We value our wonderful partnership with Alabama, and look forward to bringing the excitement of Tide Sports to homes and businesses across the area," said Terri Gualano, Area Marketing Manager for BellSouth Advertising and Publishing. "When you think of the one book that is found in almost every household, it's The Real Yellow Pages," said Director of Athletics, Mal Moore. "This is great visibility for the University and Crimson Tide sports. We are proud to have been chosen by BellSouth to represent our growing, dynamic community." In addition to Tuscaloosa, The Real Yellow Pages also includes business listings for Brookwood, Buhl, Coaling, Coker, Cottondale, Duncanville, Fosters, Holt, Knoxville, Lakeview, Northport, Peterson, Ralph, Samantha and Vance. The front section of the directory includes the award winning Community Information Pages with special sections devoted to information on local schools and government offices, public transportation, area museums and attractions, weather and emergency planning, as well as other important local information. In addition to the standard size directory, The Real Yellow Pages Tuscaloosa edition is available on the Internet at http://www.realpageslive.com/. "Just as consumers' preference for how they locate local business information has changed, so has BellSouth's tools for finding information. From our print directory, to the Internet, consumers have a choice of how they 'let their fingers do the walking' when searching The Real Yellow Pages," said Gualano. YELLOWPAGES.COM(TM) from BellSouth is a leading online yellow pages. With more than one billion searches expected in 2006, the YELLOWPAGES.COM network, including Yahoo! Yellow Pages, AOL Yellow Pages and Switchboard.com, is another way BellSouth connects savvy business people to consumers looking to make a purchase. Information is available at http://www.yellowpages.com/. About BellSouth Advertising and Publishing BellSouth Advertising & Publishing Corporation (BAPCO) is a leading provider of Yellow Pages in the Southeast. BAPCO publishes 68 million copies of the print Yellow Pages in more than 500 editions in the nine-state BellSouth region. Users referred to The Real Yellow Pages(R) from BellSouth approximately 1.6 billion times in 2005 and approximately one billion annual searches on the YELLOWPAGES.COM Network (http://www.yellowpages.com/) are expected in 2006. The Real Yellow Pages is a powerful information resource, linking buyers and sellers, with approximately 85 percent of consumers who reference the directories' most frequently used headings making a purchase based on their findings. DATASOURCE: BellSouth CONTACT: Ed Patterson of BellSouth, +1-404-213-3106, or ; or Doug Walker of University of Alabama, +1-205-348-7245, or Web site: http://www.bellsouth.com/ http://www.realpageslive.com/ http://www.yellowpages.com/ Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/095650.html

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