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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001144204-13-058886
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	S-8
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		3
FILED AS OF DATE:		20131105
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20131105
EFFECTIVENESS DATE:		20131105

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			SAGA COMMUNICATIONS INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000886136
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	RADIO BROADCASTING STATIONS [4832]
		IRS NUMBER:				383042953
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		S-8
		SEC ACT:		1933 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	333-192101
		FILM NUMBER:		131193248

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		73 KERCHEVAL AVE
		CITY:			GROSSE POINTE FARMS
		STATE:			MI
		ZIP:			48236
		BUSINESS PHONE:		3138867070

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		73 KERCHEVAL AVE
		CITY:			GROSSE POINTE FARMS
		STATE:			MI
		ZIP:			48236
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: right"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">&#9;</FONT><FONT STYLE="color: black">As
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 5, 2013</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: right; text-indent: 0.5in"><U>Registration No.
333- _</U></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>UNITED STATES</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>________________________________</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: right"><B>&nbsp;</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>FORM S-8</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT OF 1933</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>_________________________________</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: right"><B>&nbsp;</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>Saga Communications, Inc.</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">(Exact name of registrant as specified in
its charter)</P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 50%; padding: 0; text-align: right; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black"><b>38-3042953</b></font></td></tr>
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    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">(State or other jurisdiction of</font></td>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: right; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">(I.R.S. Employer</font></td></tr>
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    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">incorporation or organization)</font></td>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>Saga Communications, Inc.</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>73 Kercheval Avenue</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan 48236</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>(313) 886-7070</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">(Address, including zip code, and telephone
number, including area code, of registrant&rsquo;s principal executive offices)</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">&nbsp;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>Second Amended and Restated</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>Saga Communications, Inc. 2005 Incentive
Compensation Plan</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">(Full title of the plan)</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>Samuel D. Bush</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in"><B>Senior Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>Sage Communications, Inc.</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>73 Kercheval Avenue</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>(313) 886-7070</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>&nbsp;</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">(Name, address, including zip code, and
telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><I>copies to</I>:</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">Fred B. Green, Esq.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">Bodman PLC</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">6<SUP>th</SUP> Floor at Ford Field, 1901
St. Antoine St.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">Detroit, Michigan 48226</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">(313) 259-7777</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE</B></P>

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    <TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: left; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">Title&nbsp;&nbsp;of Securities <BR> to be Registered</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: center; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">Amount to be <BR> Registered (2)</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: center; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">Proposed Maximum <BR> Offering Price <BR> Per Share (3)</TD><TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: center; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">Proposed&nbsp;Maximum Aggregate Offering <BR> Price (3)</TD><TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: center; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">Amount of <BR> Registration Fee</TD><TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="width: 20%; font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: justify; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">Class A Common Stock</TD><TD STYLE="width: 1%; font-size: 10pt; color: black; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 19%; font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: right; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">120,000 shs.</TD><TD STYLE="width: 1%; font-size: 10pt; color: black; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: left; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">$</TD><TD STYLE="width: 17%; font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: right; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">47.375</TD><TD STYLE="width: 1%; font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: left; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="width: 1%; font-size: 10pt; color: black; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: left; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">$</TD><TD STYLE="width: 17%; font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: right; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">5,685,000</TD><TD STYLE="width: 1%; font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: left; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="width: 1%; font-size: 10pt; color: black; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: left; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">$</TD><TD STYLE="width: 17%; font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: right; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">732.23</TD><TD STYLE="width: 1%; font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: left; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: justify; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">Class B Common Stock</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: right; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">113,334 shs.</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: left; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">$</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: right; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">47.375</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: left; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: left; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">$</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: right; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">5,369,199</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: left; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: left; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">$</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: right; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">691.56</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: left; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: justify; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">Class A Common Stock</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: right; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">113,334 shs.</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: left; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">$</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: right; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">0.00</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: left; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: left; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">$</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: right; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">0.00</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: left; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: left; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">$</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: right; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">0.00</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black; text-align: left; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">issuable upon conversion <BR> of Class B Common Stock (1) <BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TOTAL</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: right; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: right; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; padding: 0; text-align: left; border-bottom: Black 2.5pt double; text-indent: 0">$</TD><TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; padding: 0; text-align: right; border-bottom: Black 2.5pt double; text-indent: 0">1,423.79</TD><TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>&nbsp;</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">(1)&#9;The Class B Common Stock is convertible,
at the option of the holder, into an equal number of shares of Class A Common Stock.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">(2)&#9;Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &ldquo;Securities Act&rdquo;), this Registration Statement shall also cover any additional
shares of the Registrant&rsquo;s Class A and Class B Common Stock in respect of the securities identified in the above table as
a result of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or other similar transaction.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">(3)&#9;This calculation is made solely
for the purpose of determining the amount of the Registration Fee pursuant to Rules 457(c) and 457(h) based on the average of the
high and low prices for the Class A Common Stock on the NYSE MKT on October 31, 2013, which was $47.375 per share.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-variant: small-caps"><B>EXPLANATORY
NOTE</B></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">This Registration Statement on Form S-8
is filed by Saga Communications, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the &ldquo;Corporation&rdquo; or the &ldquo;Registrant&rdquo;) relating
to (i) 120,000 shares of its Class A Common Stock, par value $.01 per share (the &ldquo;Class A Common Stock&rdquo;), (ii) 113,334
shares of its Class B Common Stock, par value $.01 per share (the &ldquo;Class B Common Stock&rdquo;), and (iii) the 113,334 shares
of Class A Common Stock into which the 113,334 shares of Class B Common Stock are convertible, issuable to eligible employees and
non-employee directors of the Corporation under the Second Amended and Restated Saga Communications, Inc. 2005 Incentive Compensation
Plan, which Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock is in addition to the (a) 500,000 shares of Class A Common Stock and
166,666 shares of Class B Common Stock (and the 166,666 shares of Class A Common Stock into which the 166,666 shares of Class B
Common Stock are convertible) registered on the Corporation&rsquo;s Form S-8 filed on May 31, 2005 (Commission File No. 333-125361)
(the &ldquo;Prior Registration Statement&rdquo;). The numbers with respect to the Prior Registration Statement have been adjusted
for the January 28, 2009 1-for-4 reverse stock split and the January 14, 2013, 4-for-3 stock split of the Corporation.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">This Registration Statement relates to
securities of the same class as that to which the Prior Registration Statement relate and is submitted in accordance with General
Instruction E to Form S-8 regarding Registration of Additional Securities. Pursuant to  Instruction E of Form S-8, the contents
of the Prior Registration Statement are incorporated herein by reference and made part of this Registration Statement, except as
amended hereby.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>PART II</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>&nbsp;</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B></B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>INFORMATION REQUIRED IN REGISTRATION
STATEMENT</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: bold 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">Item 8. Exhibits.</P>

<P STYLE="font: bold 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">The following documents are attached hereto
or incorporated herein by reference as exhibits to this Registration Statement:</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

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    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><U>Exhibit Number</U>&#9;<U></TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><U>Description of Document</U></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<tr style="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="width: 15%; padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">4.1</font></td>
    <TD STYLE="width: 85%; padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black">Second
Restated Certificate of Incorporation, restated as of December 12, 2003, filed as an exhibit to the Corporation&rsquo;s registration
statement on Form 8-A (File No. 001-11588) filed on January 6, 2004 and incorporated herein by reference.</FONT></td></tr>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<tr style="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">4.2</font></td>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">Certificate of Amendment to the Second Restated Certificate of Incorporation field as an exhibit to the Corporation&rsquo;s Form 8-K (File No. 001-11588) filed on January 29, 2009 and incorporated herein by reference. </font></td></tr>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<tr style="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">4.3</font></td>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">Bylaws, as amended, May 23, 2007, filed as an exhibit to the Corporation&rsquo;s Form 10-K (File No. 001-11588) for the year ended December 31, 2007 and incorporated herein by reference.</font></td></tr>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<tr style="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">5.1</font></td>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">Opinion of Bodman PLC as to the legality of the securities being registered.*</font></td></tr>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<tr style="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">23.1</font></td>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">Consent of Ernst &amp; Young LLP*</font></td></tr>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<tr style="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">23.2</font></td>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">Consent of Bodman PLC (contained in Exhibit 5.1)*</font></td></tr>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<tr style="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">24.1</font></td>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">Power of Attorney (contained on signature page).*</font></td></tr>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<tr style="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">99.1</font></td>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">Second Amended and Restated Saga Communications, Inc. 2005 Incentive Compensation Plan filed as Appendix A to the Corporation&rsquo;s Consent Solicitation Statement (File No. 001-11588) filed on September 17, 2013 and incorporated herein by reference. </font></td></tr>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>SIGNATURES</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">The Registrant. Pursuant to the requirements
of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements
for filing of Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized, in the City of Grosse Pointe Farms, State of Michigan on this 5th day of November, 2013.</P>

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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
    <TD COLSPAN="2"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">SAGA COMMUNICATIONS, INC.</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
    <TD COLSPAN="2"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; width: 50%"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">By:&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; width: 46%"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">/s/ Samuel D. Bush</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
    <TD><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; border-top: #000000 1px solid"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Samuel
    D. Bush<BR>Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer</FONT></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">Pursuant to the requirements of the
Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed below on November 5, 2013, by the following persons in the
capacities indicated below. By so signing, each of the undersigned, in his capacity as a director or officer, or both, as the
case may be, of the Registrant, does hereby appoint Samuel D. Bush, Marcia Lobaito and Catherine A. Bobinski, and each of
them severally, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent to execute in his or her name, place and stead, in his
or her capacity as a director or officer, or both, as the case may be, of the Registrant, any and all amendments to this
Registration Statement and post-effective amendments thereto (including prospectus supplements) and all instruments necessary
or incidental in connection therewith, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection
therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Each of said attorney-in-fact and agent shall have full power and
authority to do and perform in the name and on behalf of each of the undersigned, in any and all capacities, every act
whatsoever requisite or necessary to be done in the premises as fully, and for all intents and purposes, as each of the
undersigned might or could do in person, the undersigned hereby ratifying and approving all that said attorney-in-fact and
agent, or any of them or their or his substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.</P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 48%; padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: 0; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black">/s/ Edward K. Christian</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 4%; padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 48%; padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: 0; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black">/s/ Roy F. Coppedge </FONT></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-indent: 0">
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Edward K. Christian</P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
        (Principal Executive Officer)</P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P></TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-indent: 0">
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Roy F. Coppedge</P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Director</P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: 0; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">/s/ Samuel D. Bush</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: 0; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">/s/ David B. Stephens</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-indent: 0">
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Samuel D. Bush</P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal
        Financial Officer)</P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P></TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-indent: 0">
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">David B. Stephens</P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Director</P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: 0; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">/s/ Catherine A. Bobinski</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: 0; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">/s/ Gary Stevens</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-indent: 0">
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Catherine A. Bobinski</P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate
        Controller (Principal Accounting Officer)</P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P></TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-indent: 0">
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Gary Stevens</P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Director</P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: 0; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">/s/ Clarke R. Brown, Jr.</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: 0; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">/s/ W. Russell Withers</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-indent: 0">
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Clarke R. Brown, Jr.</P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Director</P></TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-indent: 0">
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">W. Russell Withers</P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Director&nbsp;</P></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B><U>EXHIBIT INDEX</U></B></P>

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    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0; width: 15%"><U>Exhibit Number</U>&#9;<U></TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0; width: 85%"><U>Description of Document</U></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">4.1</font></td>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: black">Second
Restated Certificate of Incorporation, restated as of December 12, 2003, filed as an exhibit to the Corporation&rsquo;s registration
statement on Form 8-A (File No. 001-11588) filed on January 6, 2004 and incorporated herein by reference.</FONT></td></tr>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<tr style="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">4.2</font></td>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">Certificate of Amendment to the Second Restated Certificate of Incorporation field as an exhibit to the Corporation&rsquo;s Form 8-K (File No. 001-11588) filed on January 29, 2009 and incorporated herein by reference. </font></td></tr>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<tr style="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">4.3</font></td>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">Bylaws, as amended, May 23, 2007, filed as an exhibit to the Corporation&rsquo;s Form 10-K (File No. 001-11588) for the year ended December 31, 2007 and incorporated herein by reference.</font></td></tr>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<tr style="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">5.1</font></td>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">Opinion of Bodman PLC as to the legality of the securities being registered.*</font></td></tr>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<tr style="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">23.1</font></td>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">Consent of Ernst &amp; Young LLP*</font></td></tr>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<tr style="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">23.2</font></td>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">Consent of Bodman PLC (contained in Exhibit 5.1)*</font></td></tr>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
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    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: black">Second Amended and Restated Saga Communications, Inc. 2005 Incentive Compensation Plan filed as Appendix A to the Corporation&rsquo;s Consent Solicitation Statement (File No. 001-11588) filed on September 17, 2013 and incorporated herein by reference. </font></td></tr>
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                                                              PLC</FONT></P>

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FLOOR AT FORD FIELD</FONT></P>

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ST. ANTOINE STREET</FONT></P>

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MICHIGAN 48226</FONT></P>

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FAX</FONT></P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 80%; padding: 0; text-indent: 0"><P STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">November 5, 2013</P>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">73 Kercheval Avenue</P>

<P STYLE="margin: 0pt 0">Grosse Pointe<FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">, Michigan 48236</FONT></P>



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    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Dear
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">We have examined the Registration
Statement on Form S-8 (the &ldquo;Registration Statement&rdquo;), of Saga Communications, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
&ldquo;Company&rdquo;), to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &ldquo;Commission&rdquo;) on or about
November 5, 2013 pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &ldquo;Securities Act&rdquo;), in connection with the
offering by the Company of up to 120,000 shares of the Company&rsquo;s Class A Common Stock, par value $.01 per share (the
&ldquo;Class A Common Stock&rdquo;), 113,334 shares of the Company&rsquo;s Class B Common Stock, par value $.01 (the
&ldquo;Class B Common Stock&rdquo;) and 113,334 shares of the Company&rsquo;s Class A Common Stock issuable upon conversion
of the Class B Common Stock, available for issuance under the Second Amended and Restated Saga Communications, Inc. 2005
Incentive Compensation Plan (the &ldquo;Plan&rdquo;).</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">We have examined the Plan and the originals,
or photostatic or certified copies, of such records of the Company and certificates of officers of the Company and of public officials
and such other documents as we have deemed relevant and necessary as the basis for the opinions set forth below. We have also made
such other investigations as we have deemed relevant and necessary or appropriate in connection with the opinion hereinafter set
forth. In our examination, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the legal capacity and competency of all natural
persons, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals and the conformity to original documents of all documents
submitted to us as copies. We have also assumed that there are no agreements or understandings between or among the Company and
any participants in the Plan that would expand, modify or otherwise affect the terms of the Plan or the rights or obligations of
the participants thereunder. Finally, we have assumed the accuracy of all other information provided to us by the Company during
the course of our investigations, on which we have relied in issuing the opinion expressed below.</P>

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in reliance thereon, and subject to the qualifications, assumptions and limitations stated herein and in reliance on the statements
of fact contained in the documents that we have examined, we are of the opinion that the Class A Common Stock and Class B Common
Stock, when issued and sold in accordance with the terms set forth in the Plan and against payment therefor, and when the Registration
Statement has become effective under the Securities Act, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.</P>

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of any waiver (whether or not stated as such) contained in the Plan of rights of any party, or duties owing to it, that is broadly
or vaguely stated or does not describe the right or duty purportedly waived with reasonable specificity or any provision in the
Plan relating to indemnification, exculpation or contribution.</P>

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of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement, and we further consent to the use of our name under the caption &ldquo;Legal
Matters&rdquo; in the Registration Statement and the prospectus that forms a part thereof. In giving these consents, we do not
thereby admit that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the
Rules and Regulations of the Commission.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">This opinion is furnished to you solely
for your benefit to be used by you in connection with the filing of the Registration Statement and is not to be used, circulated,
quoted or otherwise relied upon by any other person or by you for any other purpose.</P>

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    <TD COLSPAN="2"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Very truly yours,</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD COLSPAN="2"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">BODMAN PLC</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="width: 4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">By:&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; width: 46%"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">/s/ Fred B. Green</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; border-top: #000000 1px solid"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Fred
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC
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Statement (Form S-8) pertaining to the Second Amended and Restated Saga Communications, Inc. 2005 Incentive Compensation Plan of
our reports dated March 15, 2013, with respect to the consolidated financial statements of Saga Communications, Inc. and the effectiveness
of internal control over financial reporting of Saga Communications, Inc. included in its Annual Report (Form 10-K) for the year
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