New Media Veteran Joins Fisher Communications, Inc.

As part of its strategic initiative to develop and build its online businesses, Fisher Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:FSCI) announced today that Nancy J. Bruner will lead the company’s interactive businesses, as VP Fisher Interactive Networks, effective September 27, 2007. Ms. Bruner is a seasoned media executive with expertise in Internet business development, strategic market development, product development, and media management. Bruner joins Fisher from The Seattle Times Company where she has spent the past 10 years serving as the company’s Vice President of New Media. During her time with the newspaper company, Ms. Bruner grew the new media revenue an average of 30% year-over-year and built the leading online network of websites in the Puget Sound market. "Nancy is the right executive to lead Fisher’s interactive businesses. She brings a deep knowledge of emerging media, establishing strategic alliances and optimizing market opportunities in new media,” said Rob Dunlop, Senior Vice President Developing Media for Fisher Communications. "Her management skill and focus on top-line revenue growth and audience development will be extremely valuable to Fisher.” In addition to Ms. Bruner’s experience with The Seattle Times Company, she worked in Business Development and Multi-Media Product Development for various organizations including Spring Multimedia, and US West. Bruner holds a BA in English from New Mexico State University and an MFA from the University of Southern California. "Fisher Communications represents a unique opportunity to bring the assets of a traditional broadcasting company together with its online properties (the Fisher Interactive Network and Pegasus News). The market is rapidly taking shape and I see Fisher as well positioned to set the tone for the way media companies will relate to their local communities,” said Nancy Bruner. About Fisher Communications Fisher Communications, Inc. is a Seattle-based communications company that owns and manages twelve full power and seven low-power television stations and nine radio stations in the Pacific Northwest. The Company owns and operates Fisher Pathways, a satellite and fiber transmission provider, and Fisher Plaza, a media, telecommunications, and data center facility located near downtown Seattle. For more information about Fisher Communications, Inc. go to www.fsci.com. Forward looking statement This release may contain forward-looking statements that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. A more detailed description of certain factors that could affect actual results include, but are not limited to, those discussed in Fisher Communications' most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q as filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release. Fisher Communications undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, events or circumstances after the date of this release or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.