COMPANY

Satellite broadcasting service, formerly Hughes Electronics. As of 22 December 2003 it was owned by the Fox Entertainment subsidiary of News Corporation, but control is expected to transfer to Liberty Media by early 2008.

Official Website:
http://www.directv.com/

Industry:
Communications

Ticker:
NYSE:DTV

Corporate headquarters:
El Segundo, CA

Sales:
$14.7B (2006)

Employees:
9900 (2007)

EXECUTIVES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Roxanne S. Austin	Business	c. 1960		President and COO of DirecTV, 2001-03
Chase Carey	Business	c. 1954		CEO of DirecTV
Odie C. Donald	Business	c. 1949		President of DirecTV, 2000-01

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Neil R. Austrian	Business	c. 1940		President of NFL, 1991-98
Ralph F. Boyd, Jr.	Attorney	c. 1957		EVP at Freddie Mac
Chase Carey	Business	c. 1954		CEO of DirecTV
James M. Cornelius	Business	c. 1943		CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb
David F. DeVoe	Business	c. 1947		CFO of News Corporation
Charles R. Lee	Business	c. 1941		CEO of Verizon, 2000-02
Peter A. Lund	Business	c. 1941		CEO of CBS, 1995-97
Greg Maffei	Business	24-May-1960		CEO of Liberty Media
John Malone	Business	7-Mar-1941		Chairman of Liberty Media
Nancy S. Newcomb	Business	c. 1946		Former Citigroup executive
Haim Saban	Business	1944		Billionaire

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Peter Chernin	Business	29-May-1951		President of News Corporation
Eckhard Pfeiffer	Business	20-Aug-1941		CEO of Compaq, 1991-99
John L. Thornton	Business	c. 1954		President of Goldman Sachs, 1999-2003

CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Jason Alexander	Actor	23-Sep-1959		George Costanza on Seinfeld
Pamela Anderson	Actor	1-Jul-1967		Baywatch
Kathy Bates	Actor	28-Jun-1948		Misery
Drew Carey	Comic	23-May-1958		The Drew Carey Show
Danny DeVito	Actor	17-Nov-1944		Short loudmouth from Taxi
Robert Duvall	Actor	5-Jan-1931		Tom Hagen in The Godfather
Laurence Fishburne	Actor	30-Jul-1961		The Matrix
John Goodman	Actor	20-Jun-1952		King Ralph
Walter Koenig	Actor	14-Sep-1936		Chekov on Star Trek
Christopher Lloyd	Actor	22-Oct-1938		Jim Ignatowski on Taxi
Ed McMahon	Talk Show Host	6-Mar-1923		The Tonight Show
Dennis Miller	Comic	3-Nov-1953		SNL news anchor, born-again Republican
Pat Morita	Actor	28-Jun-1932	24-Nov-2005	Miyagi on Karate Kid
Mike Myers	Comic	25-May-1963		SNL alumnus is Austin Powers
Bill Paxton	Actor	17-May-1955		Mighty Joe Young
William Shatner	Actor	22-Mar-1931		Captain Kirk on Star Trek
Ben Stein	Game Show Host	25-Nov-1944		Host of Win Ben Stein's Money
Verne Troyer	Actor	1-Jan-1969		Mini-Me
Sigourney Weaver	Actor	8-Oct-1949		Alien

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