Young Broadcasting Successfully Launches New Applications and Manages Ongoing IT Performance with Heroix Longitude

Newton, MA - May 8, 2007 - Heroix, a leading provider of agentless, multiplatform application and network performance monitoring software, today announced that Young Broadcasting Inc. (NASDAQ: YBTVA), one of the largest and fastest growing broadcast station groups in America, is using Heroix Longitude to monitor and manage the performance of key information technology systems and applications

Young Broadcasting owns and operates ten television stations in geographically diverse markets. To keep operations running smoothly, and to ensure a successful deployment of their new financial system, Young Broadcasting needed to make sure all IT resources (servers, databases, financial and custom applications, email, etc.) performed optimally. After assessing several network and application performance management products, Young Broadcasting chose Heroix Longitude.

“As a mid-market company with a limited IT staff, we wanted a product that would seamlessly support our local and remote IT resources,” said Peter Grazioli, vice president and CIO. “We looked at multiple performance management products but found them too cumbersome or too costly. When evaluating Longitude, we were amazed at the in-depth monitoring and reporting capabilities, low cost, and ease of deployment. With Longitude we have gained confidence in our ability to meet our IT performance management goals and compliance requirements.”

Using Heroix Longitude’s real-time dashboard and comprehensive, yet intuitive reports, Young Broadcasting’s IT team is able to effectively monitor and manage the health of all critical IT resources. Trending reports make it easy to predict memory growth, disk space requirements, and CPU workloads – eliminating guess work and unnecessary IT investments.

In addition to successfully deploying a new financial system, Young Broadcasting used Longitude’s impact analysis capabilities to successfully launch several other new applications. And, by providing detailed information about Exchange mail usage, Longitude enabled Young Broadcasting to develop and enforce Exchange usage policies that resulted in cost savings and more effective use of IT resources.

Prior to using Longitude, Young Broadcasting’s IT team often spent hours each day combing through log files to get at key data. By automatically capturing key IT performance metrics, Longitude enables Young Broadcasting to better understand and manage the overall health of their IT environment, allocate resources, easily meet compliance audits, and focus on more strategic issues.

About Heroix

Heroix delivers award-winning multiplatform, automated monitoring and management software that assures the highest level of application, system, and network availability and performance. Today, with a presence in over 40 countries, Heroix has delivered performance management solutions to over 1,000 organizations worldwide, including Arrowsight, Fallon Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, Honeywell, Tembec, Motorola, Inc., and Young Broadcasting.