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Cheekwood Featured on Cover of the Nashville Edition of The Real Yellow Pages From BellSouth(R) - More than One Million Directories Begin Delivery on June 29 ATLANTA, June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- A piece of Nashville history is featured on the 2005-06 edition of The Real Yellow Pages from BellSouth, as Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art and the Cheekwood Mansion grace the cover of the area's leading yellow pages directory. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050629/CLW045) "We are proud to feature Cheekwood, a wonderful Nashville landmark, on the cover of our directory," said Chris Andrews, division manager for BellSouth Advertising and Publishing. "Like The Real Yellow Pages, Cheekwood has a wonderful history in the Nashville and Middle Tennessee area and we hope area residents and visitors will take the opportunity to visit the beautiful garden and outstanding museum." Directory distribution, including approximately one million White and Yellow Pages, a companion directory and CD-ROM begins June 29 and will have initial delivery for approximately four weeks. New residents and businesses will receive their directories throughout the year. "It is certainly exciting to know that Cheekwood will be seen by millions of residents and visitors to our area over the next 12 months. Being featured on the cover of Nashville's leading yellow pages directory, as well as online, is something that we believe will help showcase the wonderful programs and exhibits that make Cheekwood a Nashville institution," said Jack Becker, President of Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art. For more information on Cheekwood, please visit http://www.cheekwood.org/. To help kick-off the directory distribution, all fans attending the July 1 and 2 Nashville Sounds' games vs. the Memphis Redbirds will receive the new directory when exiting the stadium. For tickets, please contact the Sounds ticket office at 615-242-4371 or go to http://www.nashvillesounds.com/. The front section of the The Real Yellow Pages includes the award-winning Community Information Pages with special sections devoted to information on schools, government offices, area museums and attractions, sporting events, weather and emergency planning, as well as other important local information. In addition to the standard size and companion directories, The Real Yellow Pages Nashville edition is available on CD-ROM and on the Internet at http://www.realpages.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 CD-ROM to the Internet, consumers have a choice of how they 'let their fingers do the walking' when searching The Real Yellow Pages," said Andrews. RealPages.com(R) from BellSouth is the Southeast's leading online yellow pages. With more than six million annual searches for Nashville area businesses, the RealPages.com network, including Yahoo! 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.advertising.realpages.com/. About BellSouth Advertising and Publishing BellSouth Advertising & Publishing Corporation (BAPCO) is the leading provider of print and Internet Yellow Pages products in the southeast. BAPCO publishes 66 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 nearly 2 billion times last year and made nearly 200 million searches on RealPages.com (http://www.realpages.com/) in 2004. 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. About BellSouth BellSouth Corporation (NYSE:BLS) is a Fortune 100 communications company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and a parent company of Cingular Wireless, the nation's largest wireless voice and data provider. Backed by award-winning customer service, BellSouth offers the most comprehensive and innovative package of voice and data services available in the market. Through BellSouth Answers(R), residential and small business customers can bundle their local and long distance service with dial up and high speed DSL Internet access, satellite television and Cingular(R) Wireless service. For businesses, BellSouth provides secure, reliable local and long distance voice and data networking solutions. BellSouth also offers online and directory advertising through BellSouth(R) RealPages.com(R) and The Real Yellow Pages(R). More information about BellSouth can be found at http://www.bellsouth.com/ http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050629/CLW045 http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: BellSouth Corporation CONTACT: Ed Patterson of BellSouth, +1-678-406-2457, or ; or Carolyn Lawrence of Cheekwood Botanical Gardens and Art Museum, +1-615-353-6985, or Web site: http://www.bellsouth.com/ http://www.advertising.realpages.com/ http://www.realpages.com/ http://www.cheekwood.org/ Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/.html

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