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DIRECTV Adds Brigham Young University - BYU - Television to Programming Lineup

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 12, 2000--DIRECTV Inc., provider of the nation's leading digital satellite television service, today announced that it will add Brigham Young University (BYU) Television to the DIRECTV® programming lineup beginning Dec. 14, 2000.

BYU Television is a non-commercial channel that broadcasts educational material from Brigham Young University's three campuses, located in Utah, Hawaii and Idaho.

BYU Television features a variety of BYU sports, devotionals and concerts, provided by Brigham Young University and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. BYU Television will also broadcast lectures from Education Week, a week-long conference sponsored by the Church Educational System and BYU's Department of Continuing Education. The addition of BYU Television brings the total number of public interest programming networks offered by DIRECTV to 11 channels.

``DIRECTV continues to deliver programming that caters to the interests of the national public by offering customers the most diverse, complete, digital-quality programming lineup available,'' said Stephanie Campbell, senior vice president of Programming for DIRECTV. ``The addition of BYU Television will be a dynamic enhancement to the DIRECTV public interest programming lineup.''

BYU Television, available on DIRECTV channel 374, will be broadcast from DIRECTV's satellite at the 119-degree West longitude (WL) orbital location and requires an 18-by-24-inch multi-satellite dish and receiver to be received.

Public interest programming is offered to DIRECTV customers 24 hours a day, at no additional cost. The current DIRECTV public interest lineup includes C-SPAN, Eternal Word Television Network, Trinity Broadcast Network, WorldLink TV, NASA TV, PBS YOU, StarNet, Clara+Vision, Inspirational Life and Word Network.

Congress mandated in Section 25 of the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992 that all providers of direct broadcast satellite service make available a portion of their capacity for non-commercial programming of an educational and informational nature. DIRECTV offers non-commercial public interest channels under guidelines established by the FCC.