Directv S8 Registration of securities for employees | SEC 19 Nov 09

Exhibit 99(b)

DIRECTV

THRIFT AND SAVINGS PLAN

DIRECTV THRIFT AND SAVINGS PLAN

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ARTICLE I	DEFINITIONS		1

Section 1.01 -		General	1
Section 1.02 -		Account	1
Section 1.03 -		Administrator	2
Section 1.04 -		Anniversary Date	2
Section 1.05 -		Beneficiary	2
Section 1.06 -		Board	2
Section 1.07 -		Break in Service Year	2
Section 1.08 -		Business Day	3
Section 1.09 -		Class H Common Stock	3
Section 1.10 -		Class H Common Stock Fund	3
Section 1.11 -		Code	3
Section 1.12 -		Combined Continuous Participation	3
Section 1.13 -		Committee	4
Section 1.14 -		Company or Companies	4
Section 1.15 -		Compensation	4
Section 1.16 -		Continuous Participation	7
Section 1.17 -		Continuous Service	7
Section 1.18 -		Controlled Group	7
Section 1.19 -		Current Market Value of Class H Common Stock	7
Section 1.20 -		Current Market Value of Raytheon Stock	7
Section 1.21 -		Date of Partial Withdrawal	8
Section 1.22 -		DIRECTV	8
Section 1.23 -		DIRECTV Balanced Fund	8
Section 1.24 -		DIRECTV Common Stock	8
Section 1.25 -		DIRECTV Common Stock Fund	8
Section 1.26 -		DIRECTV Equity Fund	9
Section 1.27 -		DIRECTV Fixed Income Fund	9
Section 1.28 -		Dollar Balance	9
Section 1.29 -		Eligible Employee	10
Section 1.30 -		Employee	10
Section 1.31 -		Entry Date	10
Section 1.32 -		ERISA	10
Section 1.33 -		Fidelity Mutual Fund	10
Section 1.34 -		Fund	11
Section 1.35 -		Hours of Service	11
Section 1.36 -		Hughes	12
Section 1.37 -		Investment Manager	12
Section 1.38 -		Investment Option	12

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Section 1.39 -		Leased Employee	12
Section 1.40 -		Military Service	13
Section 1.41 -		Net Asset Value	13
Section 1.42 -		News Corp. Stock	13
Section 1.43 -		News Corp. Stock Fund	13
Section 1.44 -		Normal Retirement Age	13
Section 1.45 -		Participant	13
Section 1.46 -		Participant Direction	13
Section 1.47 -		Plan	14
Section 1.48 -		Plan Year	14
Section 1.49 -		Raytheon Stock	14
Section 1.50 -		Raytheon Stock Fund	14
Section 1.51 -		Retirement	14
Section 1.52 -		Separation from the Service	14
Section 1.53 -		Trust	15
Section 1.54 -		Trust Agreement	15
Section 1.55 -		Trustee	15
Section 1.56 -		Trust Fund	15
Section 1.57 -		Unit	15
Section 1.58 -		Valuation Date	15
Section 1.59 -		Vested	15
Section 1.60 -		Year of Service	16

ARTICLE II	PARTICIPATION: PARTICIPANTS’ CONTRIBUTIONS		17

Section 2.01 -		Percentage of Contribution	17
Section 2.02 -		Change of Percentage	19
Section 2.03 -		Payroll Deductions	19
Section 2.04 -		Payment of Contribution	19
Section 2.05 -		Suspension and Resumption of Contributions	20
Section 2.06 -		Reemployment	20
Section 2.07 -		Actual Deferral Percentage Limits	20
Section 2.08 -		Correction of Excess Elective Deferrals	23
Section 2.09 -		Actual Contribution Percentage Limits	25
Section 2.10 -		Correction of Excess Aggregate Contributions	26
Section 2.11 -		Correction of Excess Deferral Amounts	29
Section 2.12 -		Limitation on the Multiple Use of the Alternative Limitation	29
Section 2.13 -		Correction of Excess Use of the Multiple Use of the Alternative Limitation	30

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ARTICLE III		MATCHING AND OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE COMPANY			30

Section 3.01 -				Percentage and Investment of Company Matching and Other Contributions	30
Section 3.02 -				Adjustment of Contributions	32
Section 3.03 -				Forfeitures	32
Section 3.04 -				Maximum Contributions	32
Section 3.05 -				Combined Plan Limitation	33

ARTICLE III-A INVESTMENT OPTIONS					34

Section 3.01-A -				Choice of Investment Options	34
Section 3.02-A -				Continuation and Change of Investment Options for Future Contributions	35
Section 3.03-A -				Limitations on Change of Investment Options for Past Contributions and Disposition of Raytheon Stock Fund or the News Corp. Stock Fund	36

ARTICLE IV			MAINTENANCE AND VALUATION OF ACCOUNTS		36

Section 4.01 -				Maintenance of Separate Accounts	36
Section 4.02 -				DIRECTV Equity, DIRECTV Fixed Income, DIRECTV Balanced Fund, Class H Common Stock Fund, DIRECTV Common Stock Fund, News Corp. Stock Fund and Raytheon Stock Fund Units	37
Section 4.03 -				Class H Common Stock; Class H Common Stock Fund	37
Section 4.04 -				Raytheon Stock; Raytheon Stock Fund	38
Section 4.05 -				Fidelity Mutual Funds	38
Section 4.06 -				DIRECTV Common Stock; DIRECTV Common Stock Fund	39
Section 4.07 -				News Corp. Stock; News Corp. Stock Fund	39
Section 4.08 -				Account Valuation	39

ARTICLE V	VESTING; BENEFIT AND WITHDRAWAL RIGHTS				40

Section 5.01 -				Vesting of Participant Contributions and Deferrals	40
Section 5.02 -				Vesting of Company Matching Contributions	40
Section 5.03 -				Distribution Following Separation	41
Section 5.04 -				Installment and Lump Sum Distributions and Commencement of Distribution	42
Section 5.05 -				Withdrawals of After-Tax Contributions and Certain Vested Company Contributions	44
Section 5.06 -				No Repayment of Withdrawals	45

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Section 5.07 -					Forfeiture of Non-Vested Company Contributions	45
Section 5.08 -					Hardship Withdrawals	45
Section 5.09 -					Participant Loans	47
Section 5.10 -					Distribution on Sale of Assets or Sale of Subsidiary	48
Section 5.11 -					Withdrawal by Participant Following Age 59-1/2	48

ARTICLE VI			SUSPENSION OF DEFERRAL OF COMPENSATION AND CONTRIBUTIONS			49

Section 6.01 -					Voluntary Suspension of Deferrals and Contributions	49
Section 6.02 -					Involuntary Suspension of Deferrals and Contributions	49
Section 6.03 -					Participation During Suspension	50

ARTICLE VII				PAYMENT TO A BENEFICIARY		50

Section 7.01 -					Death Benefit Payment to Beneficiary	50
Section 7.02 -					Form and Timing of Death Benefit Payment	51
Section 7.03 -					Beneficiary of Married Participant	51

ARTICLE VIII				TRUST AGREEMENT		51

Section 8.01 -					Appointment of Trustee	51
Section 8.02 -					Provisions of Trust Agreement	52
Section 8.03 -					Express Benefit Limitation	52
Section 8.04 -					No Guarantee of Benefit	52
Section 8.05 -					Payment of Costs, Expenses and Taxes	52
Section 8.06 -					Common Investments with the Savings Plus Plan	53

ARTICLE IX		ADMINISTRATION				53

Section 9.01 -					Authority of Administrator	53
Section 9.02 -					Prohibition Against Discrimination	54
Section 9.03 -					Administrative Committee	54
Section 9.04 -					Compensation of Committee	54
Section 9.05 -					Effect of Administrative Action	55
Section 9.06 -					Payments and Prohibition of Assignment	55
Section 9.07 -					Maintenance of Name and Address	56
Section 9.08 -					Communication Requirements	56
Section 9.09 -					Claims Procedure	56
Section 9.10 -					Withholding of Taxes	57

ARTICLE X	TERMINATION AND AMENDMENT OF THE PLAN					58

Section 10.01 -					Termination or Partial Termination of Plan	58
Section 10.02 -					Amendment of Plan	58

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ARTICLE XI	TOP HEAVY PROVISIONS			59

Section 11.01 -			Top Heavy Definitions	59
Section 11.02 -			Top Heavy Special Rules	60
Section 11.03 -			Top Heavy Provisions	60
Section 11.04 -			Modification of Top-heavy Rules	61

ARTICLE XII		MISCELLANEOUS		62

Section 12.01 -			Proof of Identity of Recipient	62
Section 12.02 -			Limitation on Source of Benefit Payment	62
Section 12.03 -			Payment Conditioned Upon Release of Claims	62
Section 12.04 -			Rollover, Direct Transfers, Spin Offs and Elective Transfers	63
Section 12.05 -			Payments to Minors and Incompetents; Forfeiture of Benefits of Missing Participants	66
Section 12.06 -			Merger of Plan	66
Section 12.07 -			Named Fiduciaries	67
Section 12.08 -			Allocation of Fiduciary Responsibilities	67
Section 12.09 -			Copying and Inspection of Plan Documents	68
Section 12.10 -			No Express or Implied Employment Contract	68
Section 12.11 -			Service of Legal Process	68
Section 12.12 -			Statement to Participants	69
Section 12.13 -			Errors, Misstatements, and Payment of Interest	69
Section 12.14 -			Adoption of Plan By Companies	69
Section 12.15 -			Governing Law	69
Section 12.16 -			Pronouns	69
Section 12.17 -			Effect of Titles	70

ARTICLE XIII MINIMUM DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENTS				70

Section 13.01 -			General Rules	70
Section 13.02 -			Time and Manner of Distribution	70
Section 13.03 -			Required Minimum Distributions During Participant’s Lifetime	71
Section 13.04 -			Required Minimum Distributions After Participant’s Death	71

SIGNATURES				74

EXHIBIT A				75

DIRECTV

THRIFT AND SAVINGS PLAN

This Plan, executed by THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC., a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware (formerly known as Hughes Electronics Corporation), evidences the terms of an amendment to and comprehensive restatement of the DIRECTV Thrift and Savings Plan (formerly known as the Hughes Non-Bargaining Employees Thrift and Savings Plan), which was originally effective on March 1, 1968, and subsequently amended from time to time thereafter.

Except for limited in service withdrawals under Section 5.05, participant loans under Section 5.09, withdrawals following age 59-1/2 under Section 5.11, and minimum distributions under Article XIII that apply to all former Participants, the rights of any person who terminated employment or who retired on or before the effective date of a particular amendment, including such person’s eligibility for benefits and the time and form of benefits, if any, that will be paid, shall be determined solely under the terms of the Plan as in effect on the date of such person’s Separation from the Service or Retirement, unless such person is thereafter reemployed and again becomes a Participant unless the terms of this Plan require otherwise.

Each Exhibit attached hereto is incorporated by reference and forms an integral part of the Plan. The terms of the Plan unless specifically provided otherwise are intended to comply with Sections 401(a) and 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code, but are not intended to provide any other substantive rights to Employees who incur a Separation from the Service prior to the date of execution (unless legally required to do so), and accordingly are for that purpose effective January 1, 2004, unless indicated otherwise, and are as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS

Section 1.01 - General

Whenever any of the following terms are used in the Plan with the first letter or letters capitalized, they shall have the meanings specified below unless the context clearly indicates to the contrary.

Section 1.02 - Account

“Account” of a Participant means the account or accounts in the Trust Fund established in accordance with Section 4.01.

Section 1.03 - Administrator

“Administrator” means DIRECTV acting through its officers or their delegates, and not through its Board, except that during such time as the Committee is in existence, such Committee shall be the Administrator. The Administrator shall function as provided in the Plan, the Trust Agreement and ERISA.

Section 1.04 - Anniversary Date

“Anniversary Date” of a Participant means an anniversary of his first day on the job after his first employment by a Company while a Company, or an anniversary of his first day on the job following his most recent reemployment by a Company.

Section 1.05 - Beneficiary

“Beneficiary” means a person or trust designated in writing on forms supplied by the Administrator and delivered prior to death to the Administrator from time to time by a Participant or Former Participant in accordance with Section 7.03 to receive Benefits in the event of his death, or by an alternate payee under a qualified domestic relations order under Section 414(p) of the Code and in accordance with Section 9.06(c), as provided herein; or if no effective designation is made, then Beneficiary means either his spouse or if there is no spouse, the estate of the decedent.

Section 1.06 - Board

“Board” means the Board of Directors of DIRECTV acting as such or by and through its committees.

Section 1.07 - Break in Service Year

“Break in Service Year” means with respect to any Employee, a period of twelve consecutive months beginning on the Employee’s Severance from Service Date or any anniversary thereof, and ending on the next anniversary of such date, provided the Employee does not perform an Hour of Service during that period. For purposes of determining whether a Break in Service Year has occurred for vesting purposes, an Employee who is absent from work because of Military Service shall not incur a Severance from Service Date, and an Employee who is absent for maternity or paternity reasons shall be deemed to have a Severance from Service Date as of the second anniversary of the first date of such absence.

eight (8) Hours of Service per day of such absence. For purposes hereof, an absence from work which commences for maternity or paternity reasons means an absence by reason of pregnancy of the Employee, by reason of the birth of a child of the Employee, by reason of the placement of a child with the Employee in connection with the adoption of such child by such Employee, or for purposes of caring for such child for a period beginning immediately following such birth or placement. The Hours of Service credited hereunder for maternity or paternity reasons shall be credited in the computation period in which the absence begins if the crediting is necessary to prevent a Break in Service Year in that period, or in all other cases, in the following computation period.

Section 1.08 - Business Day

“Business Day” means any day that the New York Stock Exchange is open for business.

Section 1.09 - Class H Common Stock

“Class H Common Stock” means General Motors Corporation Class H Common Stock, $0.10 par value, contained in Article Fourth of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation and received by the Plan upon recapitalization by General Motors Corporation.

Section 1.10 - Class H Common Stock Fund

“Class H Common Stock Fund” means effective June 1, 1998, a fund invested primarily in Class H Common Stock and cash or cash equivalents. The investment objective of the Class H Common Stock Fund is long-term growth of the Fund through the appreciation of Class H Common Stock and receipt, if any, of cash and stock dividends.

Section 1.11 - Code

“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as now in effect or as hereafter amended. All citations to sections of the Code are to such sections as they may from time to time be amended or renumbered.

Section 1.12 - Combined Continuous Participation

“Combined Continuous Participation” of a Participant means the aggregate of his Continuous Participation in this Plan and in the DIRECTV Savings Plus Plan (formerly known as the Hughes Savings Plus Plan and hereinafter “Savings Plus Plan”), provided that the periods of Continuous Participation are not separated by a voluntary quit or discharge from employment, or by a resignation from either of the plans, or by a failure to make a timely application in accordance with Section 2.01.

Section 1.13 - Committee

“Committee” means an Administrative Committee appointed by DIRECTV under Section 9.03.

Section 1.14 - Company or Companies

As the context requires, “Company” or “Companies” means any entity, including (but not limited to) any corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture or the like, listed on the signature page of the Plan or Exhibit A, any entity which subsequently adopts the Plan as a whole or as to one or more divisions in accordance with Section 12.14, and any successor entity in accordance with Section 12.06. The Companies shall act with respect to the Plan through the officers of DIRECTV or their delegates and not through their boards of directors or applicable authorized person or persons.

Section 1.15 - Compensation

(a) Except as used in Sections 3.04 and 11.03, “Compensation” means the aggregate amount paid by a Company to a Participant as regular base salary, including amounts authorized by the Participant to be deferred from his Compensation and contributed by the Company under Section 2.01(b), as well as amounts deferred by a Participant to the flexible spending account in a Company cafeteria plan under Section 125 of the Code, or other payments of like nature, as well as amounts paid as paid time off, commissions, military pay differential, Call Center incentive bonuses, as well as awards under the Hughes Network Systems Annual Incentive Plan and the Hughes Network Systems Management Incentive Plan, The DIRECTV Group, Inc. Executive Officer or Employee Cash Bonus Plans (or any successor plans of the foregoing), but without inclusion of any overtime compensation, shift differentials, foreign service premiums (including mobility allowances), per diem, royalties, payments in lieu of paid time off, benefits from the Hughes Employee Transition Assistance Plan, the Hughes Supplemental Employee Retirement Plan, the Hughes Long-Term Achievement Plan, the Hughes Executive Deferred Compensation Plan (or any successor plans of the foregoing), all stock based incentive awards, including but not limited to, the Hughes Electronics Corporation Incentive Plan, The DIRECTV Group, Inc. 2004 Stock Plan, as well as any similar type incentive plan as determined from time to time by DIRECTV, subject to the following:

(i) in addition to other applicable limitations set forth in the Plan, and notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan to the contrary, for Plan Years beginning on or after December 1, 1994, the annual compensation of each employee taken into account under the Plan shall not exceed the OBRA ‘93 annual compensation limit. The OBRA ‘93 annual compensation limit is $150,000, as adjusted by the Commissioner for increases in the cost of living in accordance with Section 401(a)(17)(B) of the Code. If a determination period consists of fewer than 12 months, the OBRA ‘93 annual compensation limit will be multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of months in the determination period, and the denominator of which is 12.

(ii) for Plan Years beginning on or after December 1, 1994, any reference in this Plan to the limitation under Section 401(a)(17) of the Code shall mean the OBRA ‘93 annual compensation limit set forth in this provision. If compensation for any prior determination period is taken into account in determining an employee’s benefit accruing in the current Plan Year, the compensation for that prior determination period is subject to the OBRA ‘93 annual compensation limit in effect for that prior determination period. For this purpose, for determination periods beginning before the first day of the Plan Year beginning on or after December 1, 2001, the OBRA ‘93 annual compensation limit is $170,000.

(iii) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the annual Compensation of each Participant taken into account in determining allocations for any plan year beginning on and after December 1, 2002, shall not exceed $200,000, as adjusted for cost-of-living increases in accordance with section 401(a)(17)(B) of the Code. Annual compensation means compensation during the plan year or such other consecutive 12-month period over which compensation is otherwise determined under the plan (the determination period). The cost-of-living adjustment in effect for a calendar year applies to annual compensation for the determination period that begins with or within such calendar year.

(b) “Compensation” as used in Sections 3.04 and 11.03 shall mean:

(i) a Participant’s wages, salaries, fees for professional service and other amounts received for personal services actually rendered in the course of employment with the Company (including, but not limited to, Elective Deferrals, any amount contributed or deferred by the employer at the election of the Employee and which is not includable in the gross income of the Employee by reason of Sections 125, 403(b) or 457 of the Code, commissions paid salespersons, compensation for services on the basis of a percentage of profits, commissions on insurance premiums, tips and bonuses, and effective for limitation years beginning January 1, 1998, compensation paid or made available during such limitation years shall include elective amounts that are not includible in the gross income of the employee by reason of Section 132(f)(4) of the Code);

(ii) in the case of a Participant who is an employee within the meaning of Section 401(c)(1) of the Code and the regulations thereunder, the Participant’s earned income (as described in Section 401(c)(2) of the Code and the regulations thereunder);

(iii) for purposes of subdivision (i) of this subparagraph, earned income from sources outside the United States (as defined in Section 911(b) of the Code), whether or not excludable from gross income under Section 911 of the Code or deductible under Section 913 of the Code;

(iv) amounts described in Sections 104(a)(3), 105(a) and 105(h) of the Code, but only to the extent that these amounts are includable in the gross income of the Employee;

(v) amounts described in Section 105(d) of the Code, whether or not these amounts are excludable from the gross income of the Employee under that section;

(vi) amounts paid or reimbursed by the employer for moving expenses incurred by an Employee, but only to the extent that these amounts are not deductible by the Employee under Section 217 of the Code;

(vii) the value of a non-qualified stock option granted to an Employee by the employer, but only to the extent that the value of the option is includable in the gross income of the Employee for the taxable year in which granted;

(viii) the amount includable in the gross income of an Employee upon making the election described in Section 83(b) of the Code;

and provided further that:

(i) Company contributions made on behalf of an Employee to a simplified employee pension plan described in Section 408(k) of the Code are not considered as Compensation for the taxable year in which contributed to the extent such contributions are deductible by the Employee under Section 219(b)(7) of the Code. Additionally, any distributions from a plan of deferred compensation are not considered as Compensation regardless of whether such amounts are includable in the gross income of the Employee when distributed. However, any amounts received by an Employee pursuant to an unfunded non-qualified plan may be considered as Compensation in the year such amounts are includable in the gross income of the Employee;

(ii) amounts realized from the exercise of a non-qualified stock option, or when restricted stock (or property) held by an Employee either becomes freely transferable or is no longer subject to a substantial risk or forfeiture;

(iii) amounts realized from the sale, exchange or other disposition of stock acquired under a qualified stock option; and

Company (whether or not under a salary reduction agreement) towards the purchase of an annuity contract described in Section 403(b) of the Code (whether or not the contributions are excludable from the gross income of the Employee).

Section 1.16 - Continuous Participation

“Continuous Participation” of a Participant means the period beginning with the most recent effective date of his participation under Section 2.01 of the Plan without a subsequent voluntary quit, discharge or resignation from the Plan.

Section 1.17 - Continuous Service

“Continuous Service” of an Employee means his current period as an Employee of one or more Companies or a member of the Controlled Group in any positions or classifications (including his period of employment with such member prior to the time the member became a part of the Controlled Group if the Employee transferred employment directly from such member to the Company at any time after the member became part of the Controlled Group, provided that a reciprocal arrangement exists between DIRECTV and such member), but excluding periods of unpaid absence while an Employee, excludable under Company personnel policy consistently applied. No such period of unpaid absence, however, shall be considered a break in Continuous Service. Continuous Service shall be broken by a Separation from the Service under which the Employee has no recall rights.

Section 1.18 - Controlled Group

“Controlled Group” means the controlled group of corporations, trades and businesses as determined under regulations issued by the Secretary of the Treasury or his delegate under Sections 414(b) and 414(c) of the Code (and, for purposes of Section 415 of such Code, under subsection 415(h)) of which the Companies (and any other company so designated by the Administrator) are members.

Section 1.19 - Current Market Value of Class H Common Stock

“Current Market Value of Class H Common Stock” means prior to June 1, 1998, only the monthly average of the high and low daily sales prices of Class H Common Stock as reported in the composite tape of transactions on all major exchange and non-exchange markets in the United States for the month in which the Valuation Date ends.

Section 1.20 - Current Market Value of Raytheon Stock

“Current Market Value of Raytheon Stock” means the closing price as reported by the New York Stock Exchange for each Valuation Date.

Section 1.21 - Date of Partial Withdrawal

“Date of Partial Withdrawal” means the date recorded by the Trustee as the date of its payment of the amount withdrawn.

Section 1.22 - DIRECTV

“DIRECTV” means on and after March 16, 2004, The DIRECTV Group, Inc., and prior to March 16, 2004, Hughes.

Section 1.23 - DIRECTV Balanced Fund

“DIRECTV Balanced Fund” (formerly known as the Hughes Balanced Fund) means a fund invested primarily in a combination of common stock (a Standard & Poor’s 500 index fund), United States Government bonds (a Government bond index fund), cash equivalents, and at times, financial futures, and such other types of investments as the Trustee or Investment Manager, as applicable, shall in its discretion select. The allocation of funds between these asset classes is based on the Investment Manager’s forecast of returns and risks for stocks, bonds, and cash equivalents, and the return correlations of each of the asset classes, and may be changed from time to time. As of June 1, 1998, the bond portion of the DIRECTV Balanced Fund invests in securities that approximate the Lehman Brothers Long-term Treasury Bond Index, an unmanaged total return index comprised of all bonds covered by the Lehman Brothers Long-term Treasury Bond Index. Indexes are balanced by market capitalization. The investment objective of the DIRECTV Balanced Fund shall be to provide a reasonable return during rising equity markets and to preserve capital to the extent possible in falling equity markets.

Section 1.24 - DIRECTV Common Stock

“DIRECTV Common Stock” means the common stock, $0.01 par value, of DIRECTV contained in the Registration Statement on Form 8-A as filed with the SEC on December 22, 2003, pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act, including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description and any successor or replacement common stock.

Section 1.25 - DIRECTV Common Stock Fund

“DIRECTV Common Stock Fund” means effective December 22, 2003, a fund invested primarily in DIRECTV Common Stock and cash or cash equivalents. The investment objective of the DIRECTV Common Stock Fund is long-term growth of the Fund through the appreciation of DIRECTV Common Stock and receipt, if any, of cash and stock dividends.

Section 1.26 - DIRECTV Equity Fund

“DIRECTV Equity Fund” (formerly known as the “Hughes Equity Fund”) means a fund invested primarily in common stock, securities convertible into common stock, and such other types of investments as the Trustee or Investment Manager, as applicable, shall in its discretion select. The investment objective of the DIRECTV Equity Fund is long-term growth of capital.

Section 1.27 - DIRECTV Fixed Income Fund

“DIRECTV Fixed Income Fund” (formerly known as the Hughes Fixed Income Fund) means a fund invested primarily in short-term debt obligations of the United States Government, domestic banks and their foreign branches, foreign banks, domestic savings and loan institutions, or United States corporations, such as Government bills, certificates of deposit, commercial paper, and other similar investments which the Trustee or Investment Manager, as applicable, shall in its discretion select providing a market rate of interest and for repayment of capital within a period of not more than twelve (12) months after the date of acquisition by the Fund of the obligation in question and/or investment contracts providing for payment of principal and a minimum rate of interest to be paid by an insurance company. The investment objective of the DIRECTV Fixed Income Fund shall be the preservation of capital and a reasonable return thereon.

Section 1.28 - Dollar Balance

“Dollar Balance” means on each Valuation Date:

(a) Prior to June 1, 1998,

(i) with reference to a Participant’s balance in one of the Funds, the product of the Participant’s number of Units in such Fund multiplied by the Unit value for such Fund on such Valuation Date;

(ii) with reference to a Participant’s balance in shares of Class H Common Stock and Raytheon Stock, the product of the Participant’s number of shares of Class H Common Stock multiplied by the Current Market Value of Class H Common Stock on such Valuation Date, plus Raytheon Stock multiplied by the Current Market Value of Raytheon Stock on such Valuation Date; and

(iii) with reference to a Participant’s Account in the Trust Fund, the sum of Participant’s Dollar Balance in the Funds and Class H Common Stock and Raytheon Stock.

(b) On and after June 1, 1998,

(i) with reference to a Participant’s balance in each of the Funds, the product of the Participant’s number of Units in such Fund multiplied by the Net

Asset Value for such Fund on such Valuation Date, less fees and expenses deducted once a quarter (or such other time period as may be determined by the Administrator from time to time) as provided in Section 8.05(b)(ii); and

(ii) with reference to a Participant’s Account in the Trust Fund, the sum of Participant’s Dollar Balance in the Funds, less any applicable processing fees deducted under the terms of the Plan.

Section 1.29 - Eligible Employee

“Eligible Employee” means any Employee who:

(a) Is a United States citizen or resident; and

(b) Effective on or after December 1, 1999, and as soon as administratively feasible, is employed or reemployed by a Company; and

(c) Is not employed in a position or classification within a bargaining unit which is covered by a collective bargaining agreement with respect to which retirement benefits were the subject of good faith bargaining (unless such agreement provides for coverage hereunder of employees of such unit).

Section 1.30 - Employee

“Employee” means any person who renders services to the Companies in the status of an employee as the term is defined in Section 3121(d) of the Code, but shall not include any person classified or treated by a Company as an independent contractor, consultant, or leased employee, even if such classification or treatment is later determined to be erroneous.

Section 1.31 - Entry Date

“Entry Date” of an Employee means the first day of any payroll period following the Employee’s completion of the eligibility requirements to become a Participant.

Section 1.32 - ERISA

“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 as it may be amended from time to time.

Section 1.33 - Fidelity Mutual Fund

“Fidelity Mutual Fund” means each of the various mutual funds (including a commingled pool of mutual funds) offered by Fidelity Investments and available as part of the Fidelity Mutual Fund Investment Option; and “Fidelity Mutual Funds” means all or more than one of such mutual funds, as the context requires.

Section 1.34 - Fund

“Fund” means:

(i) prior to December 22, 2003, the Class H Common Stock Fund, the Raytheon Stock Fund, the Hughes Equity Fund, the Hughes Fixed Income Fund, the Hughes Balanced Fund, or the Fidelity Mutual Funds, as the context requires; and “Funds” means all or more than one of such funds, as the context requires; and

(ii) on and after December 22, 2003, the DIRECTV Common Stock Fund, the News Corp. Stock Fund, the Raytheon Stock Fund, the DIRECTV Equity Fund, the DIRECTV Fixed Income Fund, the DIRECTV Balanced Fund, or the Fidelity Mutual Funds, as the context requires; and “Funds” means all or more than one of such funds, as the context requires.

Section 1.35 - Hours of Service

The “Hours of Service” of an Employee or former Employee means the sum of:

(a) his hours of actual work on the job,

(b) his periods of vacation, holiday, Military Service, paid sick leave or paid leave of absence, computed on the basis of the number of hours in his regularly scheduled work day and work week, and

(c) his periods of receipt of employer-funded disability pay, converted to Hours of Service on the basis of forty (40) Hours of Service for each week in which he receives any such pay, and for a salaried Employee by dividing his most recent salary by the average number of regularly-scheduled hours of work in his salary period, ignoring holidays, sick leaves and vacations, and

(d) his hours for which back pay, irrespective of mitigation of damages, is either awarded or agreed to by the Company. In no event shall the same Hours of Service be credited twice under this paragraph and paragraphs (a), (b), or (c), and

(e) the number of Hours of Service entitled to an Employee under subsections (b) or (d) shall be calculated and credited in accordance with 29 C.F.R. ‘2530.200b-2(b) and (c). Each Hour of Service thus credited shall be attributable to the computation period in which it occurs except to the extent that the Company, in accordance with 29 C.F.R. ‘2530.200b-2(b) and (c), credits such Hours of Service to another computation period under a reasonable method consistently applied, and

(f) his Hours of Service with any other employer during which such employer is part of an affiliated service group (under Section 414(m) of the Code) or is a part of a Controlled Group of which the Company is a member, including his Hours of Service with such employer prior to the time the employer became a part of the Controlled Group if the Employee transferred employment directly from such employer to the Company at any time after the employer became a member of the Controlled Group, provided that a reciprocal arrangement exists between DIRECTV and such member.

Section 1.36 - Hughes

“Hughes” means, prior to March 29, 1995, Hughes Aircraft Company, and on and after March 29, 1995, Hughes Electronics Corporation.

Section 1.37 - Investment Manager

“Investment Manager” means the person, persons, firm or corporation appointed by DIRECTV, or any Investment Manager so authorized, pursuant to a written investment management agreement describing the powers and duties of the Investment Manager to direct the Trustee concerning the investment and reinvestment of the principal and income of the Trust Fund or a specified portion thereof.

Section 1.38 - Investment Option

“Investment Option” means one of the options specified in Article III-A.

Section 1.39 - Leased Employee

“Leased Employee” shall mean any person (other than an Employee of the Company) who, pursuant to an agreement between the Company and any other person (“leasing organization”), has performed services for the Company (or for the Company and related persons determined in accordance with Section 414(n)(6)of the Code) on a substantially full-time basis for a period of at least one year, and such services are performed under primary direction or control by the Company. Contributions or benefits provided a leased employee by the leasing organization which are attributable to services performed for the Company shall be treated as provided by the Company.

A leased employee shall not be considered an Employee of the Company if: (i) such employee is covered by a money purchase pension plan maintained by the leasing organization providing: (1) a nonintegrated employer contribution rate of at least 10% of compensation, as defined in Section 415(c)(3) of the Code, but including amounts contributed pursuant to a salary reduction agreement which are excludable from the employee’s gross income under Section 125, Section 402(e)(3), Section 402(h), or Section 403(b), (2) immediate participation, and (3) full and immediate vesting; and (ii) leased employees do not constitute more than 20% of the Company’s nonhighly compensated workforce.

Section 1.40 - Military Service

“Military Service” means service in the uniformed services as defined by 38 U.S. Code ‘4303(13) or service in ACTION for any Employee who leaves the Controlled Group directly to perform such service, irrespective of whether he is compensated by any member of the Controlled Group during such period of service, unless such Employee is not entitled to reemployment rights and other benefits under 38 U.S. Code ‘4312 or he fails to make application for reemployment within the 90 days after the completion of the service or such shorter period specified by such laws for the preservation of his reemployment rights, or (in the case of ACTION) within thirty (30) calendar days after his separation therefrom.

Section 1.41 - Net Asset Value

“Net Asset Value” means the Unit price of each Fund determined by subtracting the total liabilities of such Fund from its total assets and then dividing by the number of Units outstanding.

Section 1.42 - News Corp. Stock

“News Corp. Stock” means The News Corporation Limited Preferred American Depository Shares received by the Plan as the result of the purchase of Hughes Common Stock that was received by the Plan as the result of the acquisition of part of Hughes by News Corp. from General Motors Corporation.

Section 1.43 - News Corp. Stock Fund

“News Corp. Stock Fund” means, a fund invested primarily in News Corp. Stock and cash or cash equivalents. The investment objective of the News Corp. Stock Fund is long-term growth of the Fund through the appreciation of News Corp. Stock and receipt of cash and stock dividend.

Section 1.44 - Normal Retirement Age

“Normal Retirement Age” means the time the Participant attains age 65.

Section 1.45 - Participant

“Participant” means an Eligible Employee who has voluntarily complied with the requirements, if any, of Section 2.01.

Section 1.46 - Participant Direction

Administrator, by a telephonic voice response system (such as to the Spectrum Service Center) maintained by the Administrator for such purpose, or in such other form or manner as may be required by the Administrator from time to time; and such direction shall be effective on the Business Day of receipt or the following Business Day as determined by the Administrator, or as soon thereafter as administratively feasible.

Section 1.47 - Plan

“Plan” means the DIRECTV Thrift and Savings Plan, as amended from time to time.

Section 1.48 - Plan Year

“Plan Year” means:

(a) Prior to January 1, 1988, the twelve (12) month period commencing each January 1st;

(b) The eleven (11) month period commencing January 1, 1988 and ending November 30, 1988; and

(c) Commencing December 1, 1988, the twelve (12) month period commencing each December 1st and ending the following November 30th.

Section 1.49 - Raytheon Stock

“Raytheon Stock” means Raytheon Class A Common Stock received by the Plan as the result of the spin off of HE Holdings, Inc. and the subsequent merger of Raytheon Company into it.

Section 1.50 - Raytheon Stock Fund

“Raytheon Stock Fund” means effective June 1, 1998, a fund invested primarily in Raytheon Stock and cash or cash equivalents. The investment objective of the Raytheon Stock Fund is long-term growth of the Fund through the appreciation of Raytheon Stock and receipt of cash and stock dividends.

Section 1.51 - Retirement

“Retirement” means retirement of a Participant, pursuant to the retirement plan and policy of DIRECTV at the time of such retirement.

Section 1.52 - Separation from the Service

(a) “Separation from the Service” of an Employee means his quit, discharge, layoff (other than a temporary layoff), death, Retirement, or effective January 1,

2002, his severance from employment under Section 401(k)(2)(B)(i)(I) of the Code for any severance from employment occurring after October 1, 2000, from a Company or a member of the Controlled Group.

(b) A leave of absence (whether paid or unpaid) authorized by a Company, a vacation period, a temporary layoff, Military Service or a transfer among members of the Controlled Group shall not constitute a Separation from the Service.

Section 1.53 - Trust

“Trust” means the trust established pursuant to the Trust Agreement.

Section 1.54- Trust Agreement

“Trust Agreement” means that certain Trust Agreement Pursuant to the DIRECTV Savings Plans, as it may be amended from time to time, providing for the investment and administration of the Trust Fund. By this reference, the Trust Agreement is incorporated herein.

Section 1.55 - Trustee

“Trustee” means the Trustee and any successor or substitute trustee under the Trust Agreement.

Section 1.56 - Trust Fund

“Trust Fund” means all funds received and held by the Trustee in the Funds pursuant to the Plan and Trust Agreement and all income, profits and increments thereof.

Section 1.57 - Unit

“Unit” means the unit of measure of a Participant’s interests in each of the Funds.

Section 1.58 - Valuation Date

“Valuation Date” means the applicable Business Day, or such other date as the Administrator may determine, used to determine the Dollar Balance of a Participant’s Account.

Section 1.59 - Vested

“Vested” means non-forfeitable when used with reference to a Participant’s Account.

Section 1.60 - Year of Service

“Year of Service” of an Employee means:

(a) For Plan Years beginning on and after December 1, 1996, twelve months of Service. Years of Vesting Service (including partial Years of Vesting Service counting months and days) shall be aggregated for purposes of determining whether a Participant has a vested interest hereunder on his Severance from Service Date, even though such years may not have been consecutive.

(b) For purposes of paragraph (a) and the Plan, the following definitions shall apply:

(i) “Service” means that period of time beginning on the date an Employee is first credited with an Hour of Service with a Company or a member of the Controlled Group and ending on the Employee’s Severance from Service Date. In addition, if an Employee severs from service with a Company or a member of the Controlled Group and is reemployed within twelve (12) consecutive months by a Company or a member of the Controlled Group, his Service shall also include all days between his Severance from Service Date and his subsequent reemployment. An Employee’s Service shall be determined without regard to whether he is a Participant or an Eligible Employee during his period of employment with a Company or a member of the Controlled Group. An Employee’s Service shall be expressed in months and days and shall be measured in cumulative whole month increments (with thirty (30) days equal to one month) which shall be credited to the Employee for each full month of Service prior to a Severance from Service Date.

(ii) “Severance From Service Date” means the date the Employee is not employed by a Company or a member of the Controlled Group. The Severance from Service Date begins on the date the Employee retires, quits, is discharged or dies, or if earlier, the 12-month anniversary of the date on which the Employee is otherwise first absent from Service.

(i) Service with PanAmSat Corporation from May 16, 1997 and Service with DIRECTV Latin America will be treated as Service with a member of the Controlled Group; and

(ii) effective January 1, 2004, for any Employee who transfers directly from News Corporation Limited or any member of its Controlled Group to a Company with the Company’s approval, all Service with News Corporation Limited or any member of its Controlled Group before or after such effective date will be treated as Service with a member of the Controlled Group of the Company.

ARTICLE II

PARTICIPATION: PARTICIPANTS’ CONTRIBUTIONS

Section 2.01 - Percentage of Contribution

(a) An Eligible Employee who is or who becomes a Participant in the Plan may on an after-tax basis:

(i) prior to October 1, 1983, authorize as a deduction from Compensation paid each payroll period an amount equal to:

a. 2% or 4% of his Compensation during the first three (3) years of Combined Continuous Participation; or

b. 2%, 4%, 6% or 8% of his Compensation if the Eligible Employee has three (3) or more years of Combined Continuous Participation; and

(ii) effective May 2, 1987, authorize as a deduction from Compensation paid each payroll period an amount equal to:

a. 2%, 3%, 4%, 5%, 6% or 7% (and effective January 1, 1991, 1%) of his Compensation;

b. additional amounts as may be approved and determined from time to time in the sole discretion of the Administrator up to a maximum of 15% of his Compensation prior to January 1, 2001, and thereafter up to such maximum amount as may be determined from time to time in the sole discretion of the Administrator; and

c. the total amount contributed in the aggregate under paragraphs (a)(ii) and (b) for any Plan Year may not exceed 12% (and may not exceed 15% for Non-Highly Compensated Employees effective from December 1, 1999 to January 1, 2002) of his Compensation, and effective January 1, 2002, such amounts as may be approved and determined from time to time in the sole discretion of the Administrator.

(b) Effective October 1, 1983, an Eligible Employee who is or who becomes a Participant in the Plan may authorize the Company to defer his Compensation on a pre-tax basis each payroll period and to contribute as a Company contribution to the Plan an amount equal to:

(i) 2%, 3%, 4%, 5%, 6% or 7% (and effective January 1, 1991, 1%) of his Compensation;

(ii) additional amounts as may be approved and determined from time to time in the sole discretion of the Administrator up to a maximum of 15% of his Compensation prior to January 1, 2001, and thereafter up to such maximum amount as may be determined from time to time in the sole discretion of the Administrator; and

(iii) effective January 1, 1998, no Participant shall be permitted to defer his Compensation under paragraph (b) during any calendar year in excess of $10,000 (or such amount as may be permitted in accordance with Section 402(g) of the Code). No Participant shall be permitted to have elective deferrals made under this Plan, or any other qualified plan maintained by the Company during any taxable year, in excess of the dollar limitation contained in Section 402(g) of the Code in effect for such taxable year, except to the extent permitted under Paragraph (f) and Section 414(v) of the Code, if applicable.

(c) Any Participant who is in Military Service on or after December 1, 1994, shall be entitled to make contributions on an after-tax basis under paragraph (a)(ii) or elect to defer on a pre-tax basis under paragraph (b) amounts that would have been permitted under the Plan during such Military Service based on the rate of Compensation the Participant would have earned during such period but for the Military Service; provided, however, all such amounts must be received by the Plan during the period beginning with the Participant’s reinstatement by a Company following Military Service and ending on the earlier of three (3) times the period of Military Service or five (5) years.

(d) For Employees hired prior to December 1, 1999, and for all rehired Employees, participation shall be effective not later than the Entry Date occurring after becoming an Eligible Employee and for the payroll period beginning after receipt by the Administrator of a Participant Direction or as soon as administratively feasible thereafter, which shall:

(i) authorize a specific deduction or deferral from Compensation in accordance with paragraph (a) or (b), or both, of this Section;

(ii) specify pursuant to Section 3.01-A the Investment Option (but not Raytheon Stock Fund) under which the Employee’s contributions or deferrals are to be initially invested;

(iii) designate a Beneficiary or Beneficiaries in accordance with the terms of the Plan to receive payment which may be due under the Plan upon the death of the Eligible Employee; and

(iv) contain such other or additional information as, in the opinion of the Administrator, is desirable or necessary in the operation of the Plan.

(e) For Employees hired on and after December 1, 1999, but not rehired Employees, participation shall be effective on the Entry Date occurring after becoming an

Eligible Employee and for the payroll period beginning on or after such Entry Date. Unless the Administrator receives a Participant Direction to the contrary, such Eligible Employee shall be deemed to have made a Participant Direction, which shall:

(i) authorize a deferral of 2% of his Compensation commencing December 1, 1999, and 4% of his Compensation on and after January 1, 2001, in accordance with paragraph (b) of this Section;

(ii) specify pursuant to Section 3.01-A that the Investment Option under which the Employee’s deferrals are to be initially invested shall be the DIRECTV Fixed Income Fund; and

(iii) designate as Beneficiary the spouse of the Employee, or if no spouse, the estate of the Eligible Employee, in accordance with the terms of the Plan to receive payment which may be due under the Plan upon the death of the Eligible Employee.

(f) Effective July 1, 2002, all Employees who are eligible to make elective deferrals under this plan and who have attained age 50 before the close of the calendar year shall be eligible to make catch-up contributions in accordance with, and subject to the limitations of, Section 414(v) of the Code. Such catch-up contributions shall not be taken into account for purposes of the provisions of the Plan implementing the required limitations of Sections 402(g) and 415 of the Code and the deferral limitation Paragraph (b). The plan shall not be treated as failing to satisfy the provisions of the Plan implementing the requirements of Section 401(a)(4) 401(k)(3), 401(k)(11), 401(k)(12), 410(b), or 416 of the Code, as applicable, by reason of the making of such catch-up contributions.

Section 2.02 - Change of Percentage

A Participant may, from time to time, change his rate of deferral or contribution, if eligible, under Section 2.01. Such change shall become effective not later than the first payroll period following a Participant Direction to the Administrator, or as soon as administratively feasible thereafter.

Section 2.03 - Payroll Deductions

Payroll deductions shall be made only if the Participant has Compensation available after all other deductions required by law or his Company have been made.

Section 2.04 - Payment of Contribution

The deferrals or deductions made from a Participant’s Compensation under Section 2.01 shall be paid into the Trust Fund not later than the end of fifteen (15) business days following the month in which the deduction was made.

Section 2.05 - Suspension and Resumption of Contributions

A Participant may suspend and resume his payroll deferrals or deductions in accordance with Article VI.

Section 2.06 - Reemployment

A Participant who has a Separation from the Service for any reason and is subsequently reemployed by a Company shall become an Eligible Employee on the date of such reemployment, and may again become a Participant in the Plan upon compliance with Section 2.01.

Section 2.07 - Actual Deferral Percentage Limits

The Actual Deferral Percentage under Section 2.01(b) shall be modified as provided in Section 2.08(a) if the requirements of paragraph (a) are not satisfied.

(a) The average of the Actual Deferral Percentage for all Eligible Employees who are Highly Compensated Employees, when compared to the average of the Actual Deferral Percentages for all Eligible Employees who are Non-Highly Compensated Employees must meet one of the following requirements for each Plan Year:

(i) the High Deferral Average is no greater than the Low Deferral Average times 125%; or

(ii) the excess of the High Deferral Average over the Low Deferral Average is not greater than two (2) percentage points and the High Deferral Average is no greater than the Low Deferral Average times two (2).

(b) For purposes of paragraph (a), the Actual Deferral Percentage for any Eligible Employee who is a Highly Compensated Employee for the Plan Year and who is eligible to have amounts of his Compensation deferred and allocated to his account under two (2) or more plans or arrangements described in Section 401(k) of the Code that are maintained by the Company or a member of the Controlled Group shall be determined as if all such amounts deferred were made under a single arrangement.

(c) Whenever any of the following items are used with the first letter or letters capitalized, they shall have the meanings specified below unless the context clearly indicates to the contrary.

(i) “Actual Contribution Percentage” means the ratio (expressed as a percentage) of the sum of Employee Contributions and Matching Contributions under the Plan on behalf of the Eligible Employee for the Plan Year to the Eligible Employee’s W-2 earnings plus deferrals of Compensation made under this Plan or any other plan of the Company with a cash or deferred arrangement plus amounts not included in gross income because of Section 125 of the Code for the Plan Year.

(ii) “Actual Deferral Percentage” means the ratio (expressed as a percentage) of Elective Deferrals on behalf of an Eligible Employee for the Plan Year to the Eligible Employees’ W-2 earnings plus deferrals of Compensation made under this Plan or any other plan of the Company with a cash or deferred arrangement plus amounts not included in gross income because of Section 125 of the Code for the Plan Year.

(iii) “Aggregate Limit” means the greater of:

a. The sum of 125% times the greater of the Low Deferral Average or the Low Contribution Average, and two percentage points plus the lesser of the Low Deferral Average or the Low Contribution Average. In no event, however, shall this amount exceed twice the lesser of the Low Deferral Average or the Low Contribution Average; or

b. The sum of 125% times the lesser of the Low Deferral Average or the Low Contribution Average, and two percentage points plus the greater of the Low Deferral Average or the Low Contribution Average. In no event, however, shall this amount exceed twice the greater of the Low Deferral Average or the Low Contribution Average.

(v) “Employee Contributions” means contributions made by a Participant under Section 2.01(a)(ii) during the Plan Year.

(vi) “Excess Aggregate Contributions” means the amount described in Section 401(m)(6)(B) of the Code.

(vii) “Excess Elective Deferrals” means the amount described in Section 401(k)(8)(B) of the Code.

(viii) “High Contribution Average” means the average (expressed as a percentage) of the Actual Contribution Percentage of each Highly Compensated Employee.

(ix) “High Deferral Average” means the average (expressed as a percentage) of the Actual Deferral Percentage of each Highly Compensated Employee.

(x) “Highly Compensated Employee” means an Employee described in Section 414(q) of the Code. A highly compensated active Employee

includes any Employee who performs service for the Company during the determination year and who, during the look-back year: (i) received Compensation from the Company in excess of $80,000 (as adjusted pursuant to Section 415(d) of the Code; or (ii) were Employees who are 5% owners at any time during the look back year or determination year.

For this purpose, the determination year shall be the Plan Year. The look-back year shall be the calendar year that ends within the determination year (or, in the case of a determination year that is shorter than twelve (12) months, the calendar year ending with or within the 12-month period ending with the end of the applicable determination year).

The determination of who is a Highly Compensated Employee will be made in accordance with Section 414(q) of the Code and the regulations thereunder. For purposes of determining whether an Employee is a Highly Compensated Employee, effective December 1, 1998, compensation shall mean as defined by Section 415(c)(3) of the Code without regard to Sections 125, 132(f)(4), 402(g)(3) or 457 of the Code.

(xi) “Low Contribution Average” means the average (expressed as a percentage) of the Actual Contribution Percentage of each Non-Highly Compensated Employee.

(xii) “Low Deferral Average” means the average (expressed as a percentage) of the Actual Deferral Percentage of each Non-Highly Compensated Employee.

(xiii) “Matching Contribution” means any contribution to the Plan by the Company for the Plan Year and allocated to the Participant’s Account by reason of the Participant’s Employee Contributions or Elective Deferrals.

(xiv) “Non-Highly Compensated Employee” means an Eligible Employee of the Company who is not a Highly Compensated Employee.

(xv) “Qualified Nonelective Contributions” means contributions by the Company allocated at the Company’s discretion to the Account of any or all Non-Highly Compensated Employees that:

a. The Participant may not elect to receive in cash until distributed from the Plan;

b. Are 100% Vested when contributed; and

c. Are distributable only in accordance with the distribution provisions of the Plan that apply to Elective Deferrals.

(d) For purposes of paragraph (a) an Eligible Employee is any Employee who is directly or indirectly eligible to make a cash or deferred election under the Plan for all or a portion of a Plan Year and includes: an Employee who would be a Plan Participant but for the failure to make required contributions; an Employee whose eligibility to make elective contributions has been suspended because of an election (other than certain one-time elections) not to participate, because of a distribution, or a loan, or if an Employee cannot defer because of the Section 415 limits on annual additions; and, an Employee who is unable to make an Elective Deferral because his Compensation is less than a stated dollar amount. In the case of an Eligible Employee who makes no Elective Deferral, the deferral ratio that is to be included in determining the Actual Deferral Percentage is zero.

(e) For purposes of determining whether the Plan satisfies the Actual Deferral Percentage, all Elective Deferrals that are made under two or more plans that are aggregated for purposes of Section 401(a)(4) or 410(b) (other than Section 410(b)(2)(A)(iii)) are to be treated as made under a single plan and that if two or more plans are permissively aggregated for purposes of Section 401(k), the aggregated plans must also satisfy Sections 401(a)(4) and 410(b) as though they were a single plan.

Section 2.08 - Correction of Excess Elective Deferrals

(a) If the requirements of Section 2.07(a) are not or will not be met in a Plan Year, the Administrator may do one or both of the following:

(i) Distribute such Excess Elective Deferrals, together with income applicable thereto; or

(ii) If the Company contributes Qualified Nonelective Contributions, include such Qualified Nonelective Contributions in the Actual Deferral Percentage for Non-Highly Compensated Employees.

(b) The reduction of Elective Deferrals under paragraphs (a)(i):

(i) shall occur by first determining the amount of excess Elective Deferrals for a Highly Compensated Employee for a Plan Year. That excess is the amount (if any) by which the Employee’s Deferrals must be reduced for the Participant’s Actual Deferral Percentage to equal the highest permitted Actual Deferral Percentage under the Plan. The highest permitted Actual Deferral Percentage under a Plan, is determined as follows:

a. the Actual Deferral Percentage of the Highly Compensated Employee with the highest Actual Deferral Percentage is reduced by the amount required to cause the Participant’s Actual Deferral Percentage to equal the percentage of the Highly Compensated Employee with the next highest Actual Deferral Percentage;

b. if a lesser reduction would enable the arrangement to satisfy the Actual Deferral Percentage Test, only this lesser reduction may be made; and

c. the process in paragraphs a. and b. must be repeated until the cash or deferred arrangement satisfies the requirements of Section 2.07(a); and

(ii) after determining the amount in paragraph (i), effective January 1, 1997, the Administrator shall reduce the amount of Elective Deferrals, at such time and in such manner as may be determined in the sole discretion of the Administrator, as follows:

a. the Elective Deferrals of the Highly Compensated Employee with the highest Elective Deferrals is reduced by the amount required to cause the Participant’s Elective Deferrals to equal the Elective Deferrals of the Highly Compensated Employee with the next highest amount of Elective Deferrals;

b. if a lesser reduction would enable the arrangement to equal the amount of the Excess Elective Deferrals determined in paragraph (i), only this lesser reduction may be made; and

c. the process in paragraphs a. and b. must be repeated until the amount of excess determined under paragraph (i);

The Excess Elective Deferrals shall be returned to the applicable Participant as cash compensation and shall be subject to all federal taxes and other taxes and deductions which would otherwise apply to the Participant’s Compensation; or subject to the approval of the Administrator and to the extent provided in regulations issued by the Secretary of the Treasury, the Participant may elect to recharacterize the Excess Elective Deferral as an amount distributed to the Participant and contributed by the Participant to the Plan as after-tax contributions made under Section 2.01(a)(ii); but any recharacterized amounts shall be subject to the same distribution restrictions as an Elective Deferral under Section 2.01(b);

(iii) the income allocable to the Excess Elective Deferrals shall include the income for the Plan Year for which the Excess Elective Deferrals were made (but not the income for the period between the end of the Plan Year and the date of distribution (or forfeiture)), and shall be determined at the discretion of the Administrator by either multiplying income allocable to the Participant’s Elective Deferrals for the Plan Year by a fraction, the numerator of which is the Excess Elective Deferrals on behalf of the Participant for the preceding Plan Year and the denominator of which is the amount of the Participant’s Account attributable to Elective Deferrals on the last day of the preceding Plan Year, or by any other

reasonable method, provided that such method is used consistently for all Participants for that Plan Year; and

(iv) the Excess Elective Deferrals which would otherwise be distributed to the Participant shall be adjusted for income; shall be reduced, in accordance with regulations, by the amount of Excess Elective Deferrals distributed to the Participant; and shall, if there is a loss allocable to the Excess Elective Deferrals, in no event be less than the lesser of the Participant’s Account under the Plan or the Participant’s Elective Deferrals for the Plan Year.

(c) If the Company elects to make Qualified Nonelective Contributions for the Plan Year under paragraph (a)(ii), such contributions shall be allocated to some or all Non-Highly Compensated Employees (and may, but need not, be allocated to Non-Highly Compensated Employees who have a Separation from the Service prior to the end of the Plan Year), as determined by the Administrator in its sole discretion, either in the same proportion as such Employee’s Compensation for the Plan Year bears to the total Compensation of all such Employees for the Plan Year, in the same dollar amount, or in the following manner:

(i) the initial allocation shall be made to the Non-Highly Compensated Employee with the lowest Compensation for the Plan Year; and

Section 2.09 - Actual Contribution Percentage Limits

The Actual Contribution Percentage under Section 2.01(a) shall be modified as provided in Section 2.10(a) if the requirements of paragraph (a) are not satisfied.

(a) The average of the Actual Contribution Percentage for all Eligible Employees who are Highly Compensated Employees, when compared to the average of the Actual Contribution Percentage for all Eligible Employees who are Non-Highly Compensated Employees, must meet one of the following requirements for each Plan Year:

(i) the High Contribution Average is no greater than the Low Contribution Average times 125%.

(ii) the excess of the High Contribution Average over the Low Contribution Average is not greater than two (2) percentage points and the High Contribution Average is no greater than Low Contribution Average times two (2).

(b) For purposes of paragraph (a) the Contribution Percentage for any Eligible Employee who is a Highly Compensated Employee for the Plan Year and who is eligible to make Employee Contributions as after-tax contributions under Section 2.01(a), or to receive Matching Contributions or Elective Deferrals allocated to his account under two (2) or more plans described in Section 401(a) of the Code or arrangements described in Section 401(k) of the Code that are maintained by the Company or a member of the Controlled Group shall be determined as if all such contributions and Elective Deferrals were made under a single plan.

(c) In the event that this Plan satisfies the requirements of Section 410(b) of the Code only if aggregated with one or more other plans, or if one or more other plans satisfy the requirements of Section 410(b) of the Code only if aggregated with this Plan, then this Section shall be applied by determining the Actual Contribution Percentage of Eligible Employees as if all such plans were a single plan.

(d) For purposes of paragraph (a), an Eligible Employee is any employee who is directly or indirectly eligible to receive an allocation of Matching Contributions or to make Employee Contributions and includes: an Employee who would be a Plan Participant but for the failure to make required contributions; an Employee whose right to make Employee Contributions or receive Matching Contributions has been suspended because of an election (other than certain one-time elections) not to participate; and an Employee who is unable to make an Employee Contribution or receive a Matching Contribution because his Compensation is less than a stated dollar amount. In the case of an Eligible Employee who makes no Employee Contributions and who receives no Matching Contributions, the contribution ratio that is to be included in determining the Actual Contribution Percentage is zero.

Section 2.10 - Correction of Excess Aggregate Contributions

(a) If the requirements of Section 2.09(a) are not or will not be met in a Plan Year, the Administrator may do one or more of the following:

(i) treat as a forfeiture the Excess Aggregate Contributions, together with income applicable thereto, if otherwise forfeitable under the terms of the Plan; or

(ii) if not forfeitable, the Administrator shall distribute the Excess Aggregate Contributions, together with income applicable thereto, before the end of the Plan Year following such Plan Year;

(iii) include certain Elective Deferrals in the Average Contribution Percentage of certain Non-Highly Compensated Employees; or

(iv) if the Company contributes Qualified Nonelective Contributions, include such Qualified Nonelective Contributions in the Actual Contribution Percentage for Non-Highly Compensated Employees.

(b) The reduction of Excess Aggregate Contributions under paragraph (a)(i):

(i) shall occur by first determining the amount of Excess Aggregate Contributions for a Highly Compensated Employee for a Plan Year. That excess is the amount (if any) by which the Employee’s Matching Contributions and Employee Contributions must be reduced for the Participant’s Actual Contribution Percentage to equal the highest permitted Actual Contribution Percentage under the Plan. The highest permitted Actual Contribution Percentage under a Plan, is determined as follows:

a. the Actual Contribution Percentage of the Highly Compensated Employee with the highest Actual Contribution Percentage is reduced by the amount required to cause the Participant’s Actual Contribution Percentage to equal the percentage of the Highly Compensated Employee with the next highest Actual Contribution Percentage;

b. if a lesser reduction would enable the arrangement to satisfy the Actual Contribution Percentage Test, only this lesser reduction may be made; and

c. the process in paragraphs a. and b. must be repeated until the cash or deferred arrangement satisfies the requirements of Section 2.07(a); and

(ii) shall occur, effective January 1, 1997, in order of the Highly Compensated Employees with the highest amount of Excess Aggregate Contributions at such time and in such manner as may be determined in the sole discretion of the Administrator, and shall continue until the Actual Contribution Percentage meets the requirements of Section 2.09 as provided by Section 401(m)(6)(C) of the Code; and

(iii) the income allocable to Excess Aggregate Contributions shall include the income for the Plan Year for which the Excess Aggregate Contributions were made (but not the income for the period between the end of the Plan Year and the date of distribution (or forfeiture)), and shall be determined at the discretion of the Administrator by either multiplying the income allocable to the Participant’s Employee Contributions and Matching Contributions for the Plan Year by a fraction, the numerator of which is the Excess Aggregate Contributions on behalf of the Participant for the preceding Plan Year and the denominator of which is the amount of the Participant’s Account attributable to Employee Contributions and Matching Contributions on the last day of the preceding Plan Year, or by any other reasonable method, provided that such method is used consistently for all Participants for that Plan Year; and

(iv) the Excess Aggregate Contributions to be distributed to a Participant shall be adjusted for income, and if there is a loss allocable to the Excess Aggregate Contributions, the amount to be distributed shall in no event be less than the lesser of the Participant’s Account under the Plan or the Participant’s Employee Contributions and Matching Contributions for the Plan Year.

(v) the Excess Aggregate Contributions attributable to Employee Contributions shall be distributed from the Participant’s Account, and the Excess Aggregate Contributions attributable to Matching Contributions shall be forfeited, in proportion to the Participant’s Employee Contributions and Matching Contributions for the Plan Year.

(vi) amounts forfeited by Highly Compensated Employees under paragraph (v) shall be used to reduce Company contributions, but in no event shall be allocated to the Account of any Highly Compensated Employee.

(c) The Administrator may elect to treat certain Qualified Nonelective Contributions or Elective Deferrals of Non-Highly Compensated Employees as Matching Contributions, provided that Elective Deferrals distributed in order to correct Excess Elective Deferrals under Sec. 2.08(a)(i) must not be used and that the Actual Deferral Percentage limit under Sec. 2.07(a)(i) is satisfied both with and without taking such Elective Deferrals into account.

(d) If the Company elects to make Qualified Nonelective Contributions for the Plan Year under paragraph (a)(iv), such contributions shall be allocated to some or all Non-Highly Compensated Employees (and may, but need not, be allocated to Non-Highly Compensated Employees who have a Separation from the Service prior to the end of the Plan Year), as determined by the Administrator in its sole discretion, either in the same proportion as such Employee’s Compensation for the Plan Year bears to the total Compensation of all such Employees for the Plan Year, in the same dollar amount, or in the following manner:

(i) the initial allocation shall be made to the Non-Highly Compensated Employee with the lowest Compensation for the Plan year; and

Section 2.11 - Correction of Excess Deferral Amounts

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, Excess Deferral Amounts and income allocable thereto shall be distributed no later than April 15th of the following year to Participants who claim such Excess Deferral Amounts for the preceding calendar year.

(b) For purposes of this Section, “Excess Deferral Amount” means the amount of Elective Deferrals for a calendar year that the Participant allocates to this Plan pursuant to the claims procedure set forth in paragraph (c).

(c) The Participant’s claim shall be in writing, and shall be submitted to the Administrator no later than March 1 following the Plan Year to which the claim relates; shall specify the Participant’s Excess Deferral Amount for the preceding calendar year; and shall be accompanied by the Participant’s written statement that if such amounts are not distributed, such Excess Deferral Amount, when added to amounts deferred under other plans or arrangements described in Sections 401(k), 408(k) or 403(b) of the Code, exceeds the limit imposed on the Participant by Section 402(g) of the Code for the calendar year in which the Excess Deferral Amount occurred. A Participant is deemed to have provided written notice to the Plan about any Excess Deferral Amount under the Plan and any other plan of the Company.

(d) The income allocable to Excess Deferral Amounts shall include the income for the Plan Year for which the Excess Deferral Amounts were made (but not the income for the period between the end of the Plan Year and the date of distribution (or forfeiture)), and shall be determined at the discretion of the Administrator by either multiplying the income allocable to the Participant’s Excess Deferral Amounts for the Plan Year by a fraction, the numerator of which is the Excess Deferral Amounts on behalf of the Participant for the preceding Plan Year and the denominator of which is the amount of the Participant’s Elective Deferrals on the last day of the preceding Plan Year, or by any other reasonable method, provided that such method is used consistently for all Participants for that Plan Year.

(e) The Excess Deferral Amount to be distributed to a Participant with respect to a calendar year shall be adjusted for income, and if there is a loss allocable to the Excess Deferral, the Excess Deferral Amount shall in no event be less than the lesser of the Participant’s Account under the Plan or the Participant’s Elective Deferrals for the calendar year.

Section 2.12 - Limitation on the Multiple Use of the Alternative Limitation

(a) If multiple use of the alternative limitation occurs as provided in paragraph (b), then such multiple use shall be corrected as provided in Section 2.13.

(b) Multiple use of the alternative limitation occurs if:

(i) One or more Highly Compensated Employees of the Company or a member of the Controlled Group are eligible under the Plan for benefits subject to Section 401(k) and 401(m) of the Code;

(ii) The Aggregate Limit is exceeded;

(iii) The High Deferral Average exceeds 125% times the Low Deferral Average; and

(iv) The High Contribution Average exceeds 125% times the Low Contribution Average.

(c) The multiple use test described in Treasury Regulation Section 1.401(m)-2 and this Section of the Plan shall not apply for Plan Years beginning on and after December 1, 2001.

Section 2.13 - Correction of Excess Use of the Multiple Use of the Alternative Limitation

If a correction is required because of Section 2.12(a), the Administrator may correct either Excess Elective Deferrals in accordance with Section 2.08 or Excess Aggregate Contributions in accordance with Section 2.10, or both, and the Administrator may in its discretion make such corrections for either all Highly Compensated Employees under the Plan or for only those Highly Compensated Employees who are participating in benefits subject to Section 401(k) or 401(m) of the Code.

ARTICLE III

MATCHING AND OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE COMPANY

Section 3.01 - Percentage and Investment of Company Matching and Other Contributions

(a) Prior to October 1, 1983 and subject to Section 3.03, the Company shall contribute to the Trust Fund an amount equal to:

(i) 50% of the total contributions or deferrals made by Participants; or

(ii) effective for contributions or deferrals made on or after July 1, 1980, 75% of the total contributions or deferrals made by Participants at the rate of 2% or 4% of Compensation, and 50% of the contributions or deferrals made by Participants in excess of 4% of Compensation.

(b) On or after October 1, 1983, and prior to January 1, 1991, and subject to Section 3.03, the Company shall contribute to the Trust Fund an amount equal to 75% of the lesser of either the total amounts contributed or deferred by each Participant under Section 2.01(a)(ii) and Section 2.01(b)(i), or 7% of his Compensation.

(i) the Company shall contribute in its discretion an amount that it deems necessary to a Participant’s Account in accordance with paragraph (e) equal in value to 100% of the total contributions or deferrals made by Participants under Section 2.01(a)(ii) or Section 2.01(b)(i) at the rate of 1%, 2% or 3%, and on or after January 1, 1997, 1%, 2%, 3% or 4%, of Compensation;

(ii) prior to September 3, 1992, the Company shall contribute a cash contribution equal to 75% of the total contributions or deferrals made by Participants under Section 2.01(a)(ii) or Section 2.01(b)(i) in excess of 3% of Compensation up to a maximum of 7% of Compensation; and

(iii) on and after September 3, 1992, the Company shall contribute no Company Matching Contributions under subparagraph (ii).

(d) On or after January 1, 1991, the Company may contribute as Qualified Nonelective Contributions an amount determined in the sole discretion of the Company.

(f) Any Participant who is in Military Service, subject to receipt by the Plan of the payments under Section 2.01(c), shall receive as a Company Matching Contribution the same amount of Units of the Class H Common Stock Fund prior to December 22, 2003, and thereafter in the DIRECTV Common Stock Fund, as well as any other additional Company contributions, that would have been contributed by the Company but for the Participant’s period of Military Service based on the amounts received by the Plan under Section 2.01(c) of the Plan.

Section 3.02 - Adjustment of Contributions

Adjustments may be made by the Administrator at any time because of errors in calculating previous Company or Participants’ contributions or because of data not known at the time of the previous calculation, but such adjustments need not be made retroactively.

Section 3.03 - Forfeitures

The amount of Company contributions required by this Article shall be reduced by the amount of any forfeiture required in Section 5.07 and 12.05.

Section 3.04 - Maximum Contributions

(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, effective January 1, 1998, the total Annual Addition to a Participant’s Account for any year shall not exceed the lesser of 25% of the Participant’s Compensation for the year from the Company, or $30,000 (or prior to years prior to December 31, 1994, 1/4 of the dollar limitation in effect under Section 415(b)(1)(A) of the Code, if greater, and for years commencing January 1, 1995, such greater amount as may be permitted in accordance with regulations issued under Section 415(d)(1) of the Code). Except to the extent permitted under Section 2.01(f), effective for years commencing January 1, 2002 and thereafter, the total Annual Addition to a Participant’s Account for any year shall not exceed the lesser of 100% of the Participant’s Compensation for the year from the Company, or $40,000 (or such greater amount as may be permitted in accordance with regulations issued under Section 415(d)(1) of the Code). The limit of 100% of the Participant’s Compensation referred in the preceding sentence shall not apply to any contribution for medical benefits after separation from service (within the meaning of Section 401(h) or Section 419A(f)(2) of the Code) which is otherwise treated as an Annual Addition.

(b) For purposes of Section 3.04(a), the term “Annual Addition” shall mean for any calendar year the aggregate of amounts credited to a Participant’s Accounts from Company contributions, including Elective Deferrals (but excluding Excess Deferral Amounts corrected under Section 2.11), and forfeitures, plus the Participant’s voluntary contributions, plus amounts described in Sections 415(l)(1) and 419(A)(d)(2) of the Code.

(c) If the Company contributes to another defined contribution plan, as that term is defined in Section 414(i) of the Code, for its employees, some or all of whom may be Participants in this Plan, then any such Participant’s Annual Addition in such other plan shall be aggregated with such Participant’s Annual Addition derived from this Plan for purposes of the limitations expressed in this Section.

into account in determining the Participant’s Annual Addition hereunder, and shall be aggregated with such Participant’s Annual Addition derived from this Plan and from other plans as described in this Section for purposes of the limitations expressed herein.

(e) If the Annual Addition to the Participant’s Account exceeds the limitations described herein, the aggregate of the Annual Addition to this Plan and the Annual Addition to any other defined contribution plan as described above shall be reduced until the applicable limitation is satisfied, by reducing or refunding the aggregate amount in the following order and priority:

(i) refund any voluntary contributions made by the Participant to this Plan to the extent that such contributions are included in the Annual Addition hereunder;

(ii) refund any contributions made by the Participant to any other defined contribution plan to the extent that such contributions would be aggregated with the Annual Addition to this Plan pursuant to provisions hereof;

(iii) reduce the amount deferred by the Participant and contributed by the Company under Section 2.01(b) in such amount and manner as may be determined by the Administrator; and

(iv) in the event that after the above refunds and reductions are made, amounts are still available which may not be allocated hereunder, such amounts shall be treated as a forfeiture and shall be held in a suspense account;

provided, however, that such amounts held in a suspense account shall be allocated to the Accounts of Participants at the first possible time when such allocation would not violate the provisions of Section 415 of the Code or other applicable law. Such allocation of forfeitures held in suspense accounts shall take place prior to the allocation of any amounts arising from any other source, including forfeitures in a subsequent year, or Company contributions together with earnings thereon.

Section 3.05 - Combined Plan Limitation

(a) For years ending before January 1, 2000, in the case of any Employee who is a Participant in this Plan and in either or both of the defined benefit plans of the Company, the sum of the Defined Benefit Plan Fraction and the Defined Contribution Plan Fraction for any year shall not exceed 1.0. In the event the sum of such fractions exceeds 1.0 and in the absence of specific language in this Plan or in the defined benefit plans of the Company, the Administrator shall prescribe the manner in which the Annual Addition to this Plan or the annual benefits under the defined benefit plans of the Company shall be reduced in order that none of the plans shall be disqualified under applicable sections of the Code.

(b) For purposes of applying the limitations of Section 3.05(a), the following rules shall prevail:

(i) the term “Defined Benefit Plan Fraction” shall mean a fraction the numerator of which is the projected annual benefit payable, as applicable, under all defined benefit plans ever maintained by the Company or any member of the Controlled Group, if applicable, determined as of the close of the year, and the denominator of which is the lesser of

a. the product of 125% multiplied by the dollar limitation in effect under Section 415(b)(1)(A) of the Code for such year, or

b. the amount which may be taken into account under Section 415(b)(1)(B) of the Code with respect to such Employee under the defined benefit plan for such year multiplied by 140%.

(ii) the term “Defined Contribution Plan Fraction” shall mean the aggregate Annual Addition to this Plan as determined in Section 3.04 (and all other defined contribution plans ever maintained by the Company or any member of the Controlled Group, if applicable) determined as of the close of the year over the sum of the lesser of the following amounts determined for such year and for each prior year of service with the Company:

a. the dollar limitation in effect under Section 415(c)(1)(A) of the Code for such year (determined without regard to Section 415(c)(6) of the Code) multiplied by 125%, or

b. the amount which may be taken into account under Section 415(c)(1)(B) (or Section 415(c)(7) or (8), if applicable) of the Code with respect to such employee under such plan for such year multiplied by 140%.

ARTICLE III-A

INVESTMENT OPTIONS

Section 3.01-A - Choice of Investment Options

(a) The following Investment Options are currently available:

Option 1	-	DIRECTV Equity Fund

Option 2	-	DIRECTV Fixed Income Fund

Option 3	-	DIRECTV Common Stock Fund on or after December 22, 2003, and prior thereto, Class H Common Stock Fund

Option 4	-	DIRECTV Balanced Fund

Option 5	-	Raytheon Stock Fund

Option 6	-	Fidelity Mutual Funds

Option 7	-	News Corp. Stock Fund

The Plan will maintain the Raytheon Stock Fund as part of the Trust Fund until October 29, 2004, at which time the Trustee shall dispose of all Raytheon Stock and shall as soon as administratively feasible thereafter dispose of the Raytheon Stock Fund, and the proceeds of such disposition shall be allocated to the Participant’s Account based on the Dollar Balance of the Raytheon Stock Fund and shall be invested by the Trustee in accordance with the Participant’s investment direction as then in effect and as provided herein. If the Participant fails to elect an Investment Option as provided herein, the Participant shall be deemed to have elected the DIRECTV Fixed Income Fund as the Investment Option for the proceeds from his Raytheon Stock Fund.

(b) Except for the Raytheon Stock Fund and the News Corp. Stock Fund, contributions made to the Plan by the Company on behalf of such Participant shall be invested by the Trustee in one or more Investment Options as elected by a Participant pursuant to a Participant Direction. Contributions allocated to any such Investment Option must be designated by the Participant in whole percentage increments (with a minimum of 1%). If the Participant fails to elect an Investment Option as provided herein, the Participant shall be deemed to have elected the DIRECTV Fixed Income Fund as the Investment Option, except as otherwise provided in this paragraph. If the Participant elects pursuant to a Participant Direction, Company Contributions under Section 3.01(b) and (c)(ii) shall be invested proportionately in each Investment Option as selected in this paragraph. Company contributions under Section 3.01(c)(i) shall remain invested in the Class H Common Stock Fund prior to December 22, 2003, and thereafter in the DIRECTV Common Stock Fund, until the earlier of the end of the two (2) full Plan Years following the Plan Year of such contributions or deferrals or such other date as may be determined by DIRECTV.

Section 3.02-A - Continuation and Change of Investment Options for Future Contributions

(a) Any contributions under Section 2.01(a) or (b) allocated to any Investment Option under Section 3.01-A(b) elected by a Participant pursuant to a Participant Direction shall be deemed to be a continuing direction until changed as provided in paragraph (b).

(b) A Participant may not allocate any future contributions to the Raytheon Stock Fund or the News Corp. Stock Fund. Except for the foregoing, a Participant may change his Investment Options as to the allocation of future contributions by delivering a Participant Direction to the Administrator at any time during each year.

Section 3.03-A - Limitations on Change of Investment Options for Past Contributions and Disposition of Raytheon Stock Fund or the News Corp. Stock Fund

(a) A Participant may, except as provided in Section 3.01-A(b) relating to the restriction on the investment in the Class H Common Stock Fund prior to December 22, 2003, and thereafter in the DIRECTV Common Stock Fund, by a Participant Direction, elect to have a percentage (designated in whole percentage increments with a minimum of 1%, but in no event less than the lesser of $250 or the entire value of the Investment Option) of the Dollar Balance in one (or more than one) Investment Option of the Participant transferred to any one (or more than one) other Investment Option. For purposes of determining the dollar amount of such transfer, the Dollar Balance of such Investment Option shall be determined on the Business Day that such Participant Direction is effective. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Fidelity Mutual Fund may reject, cancel or suspend any purchase or sale orders that, in Fidelity’s opinion, may be disruptive to the Fund.

(b) A Participant may on any Business Day by a Participant Direction elect to have a percentage (designated in whole percentage increments with a minimum of 1%, but in no event less than the lesser of $250 or the entire value of the Raytheon Stock Fund or the News Corp. Stock Fund) of the Dollar Balance of the Raytheon Stock Fund or the News Corp. Stock Fund transferred to any other Investment Option. No transfer is allowed from another Investment Option to the Raytheon Stock Fund or to the News Corp. Stock Fund.

ARTICLE IV

MAINTENANCE AND VALUATION OF ACCOUNTS

Section 4.01 - Maintenance of Separate Accounts

containing sufficient information to permit a determination of the Dollar Balance of such Participant’s Account at any time in accordance with the Unit system described in this Article, and to permit such other determinations as may be required to carry out the provisions of the Plan and the Code.

Section 4.02 - DIRECTV Equity, DIRECTV Fixed Income, DIRECTV Balanced Fund, Class H Common Stock Fund, DIRECTV Common Stock Fund, News Corp. Stock Fund and Raytheon Fund Stock Fund Units

(a) The interest of each Participant in each Fund resulting from Participant and Company contributions shall be represented by Units allocated to the Participant.

(b) The initial value of each Unit in the DIRECTV Equity Fund was $1.00 on April 1, 1968, in the DIRECTV Fixed Income Fund was $1.00 on January 1, 1974, in the DIRECTV Balanced Fund was $4.00 on December 1, 1988, in the Class H Common Stock Fund was $10.00 on June 1, 1998, in the Raytheon Common Stock Fund was $10.00 on June 1, 1998, and for both the DIRECTV Common Stock Fund and News Corp. Stock Fund was $10.00 on December 22, 2003.

(c) Units shall be credited to Participants on such basis for the contributions deposited into the Funds on behalf of each Participant. Each contribution to the Funds on behalf of a Participant or payment made to a Participant prior to that next Valuation Date shall result in a credit or charge to his Account equal to the number of Units contributed or paid, as the case may be.

(d) On each Valuation Date, an amount equal to the fair market value of all property in each Fund (including each Fidelity Mutual Fund) on such Valuation Date (after payment or provision for payment thereof of such Fund’s share of Trust expenses as provided in Section 8.05(b)(ii)) shall be determined by the Trustee in such manner and on such basis as it shall deem appropriate. Such amount for each Fund shall be divided by the total number of Units credited to all Participants in such Fund on the particular Valuation Date, thereby establishing a new Net Asset Value for the Fund.

(e) Each contribution to any Fund or payment from any Fund on or after such Valuation Date and prior to the next Valuation Date shall be converted to Units by dividing the Net Asset Value of such Fund into the amount of such contribution or payment, and the individual Account of each affected Participant shall be credited or charged, as the case may be, with the portion of the number of Units so computed properly attributable to such Participant.

Section 4.03 - Class H Common Stock; Class H Common Stock Fund

December 22, 2003, the interest of each Participant shall be in Units of the Class H Common Stock Fund. Effective December 22, 2003, the interest of each such Participant shall be in the DIRECTV Common Stock Fund.

(b) Contributions to be invested in Class H Common Stock Fund (and prior to June 1, 1998, in the Class H Common Stock), and cash dividends received by the Trustee on Class H Common Stock, shall prior to June 1, 1998, be invested in the Class H Common Stock, and thereafter in the Class H Common Stock Fund which in turn will invest in Class H Common Stock as received, or as soon as practicable thereafter.

(c) Class H Common Stock acquired by the Trustee under the terms of this Plan shall be registered in the name of the Trustee or its nominee, who shall vote the shares (including fractions) credited to each Participant as instructed by the Participant, and shall vote the shares for which instructions are not timely received as it determines in its discretion in its capacity as Trustee.

Section 4.04 - Raytheon Stock; Raytheon Stock Fund

(a) Prior to June 1, 1998, the interest of each Participant in Raytheon Stock, resulting from the interest of such Participants in Class H Common Stock and the spin off of HE Holdings, Inc. and the merger of Raytheon Company into it was represented in shares of Raytheon Stock allocated to the Participant’s Account. On and after June 1, 1998, the interest of each Participant shall be in Units of the Raytheon Stock Fund.

(b) Cash dividends received by the Trustee on Raytheon Stock shall be invested in the Raytheon Stock Fund (and prior to June 1, 1998, in Raytheon Stock) as received, or as soon as practicable thereafter.

(c) Raytheon Stock acquired by the Trustee under the terms of this Plan shall be registered in the name of the Trustee, or its nominee, who shall vote the shares (including fractions) credited to each Participant as instructed by the Participant, and shall vote the shares for which instructions are not timely received as it determines in its discretion in its capacity as Trustee.

Section 4.05 - Fidelity Mutual Funds

(a) The interest of each Participant in each of the Fidelity Mutual Funds, resulting from Participant and Company Contributions, is represented by Units of each such Fidelity Mutual Fund allocated to the Participant’s Account.

(b) Contributions to be invested in each such Fidelity Mutual Fund, and dividends and capital gains received by such Fund, shall be invested in such Fund as received, or as soon as practicable thereafter.

Section 4.06 - DIRECTV Common Stock; DIRECTV Common Stock Fund

(a) The interest of each Participant shall be in Units of the DIRECTV Common Stock Fund.

(b) Cash dividends received by the Trustee on Company Stock shall be invested in the DIRECTV Common Stock Fund as received, or as soon as practicable thereafter.

(c) DIRECTV Common Stock acquired by the Trustee under the terms of this Plan shall be registered in the name of the Trustee, or its nominee, who shall vote the shares (including fractions) credited to each Participant as instructed by the Participant, and shall vote the shares for which instructions are not timely received as it determines in its discretion in its capacity as Trustee.

Section 4.07 - News Corp. Stock; News Corp. Stock Fund

(a) The interest of each Participant shall be in Units of the News Corp. Stock Fund.

(b) Cash dividends received by the Trustee on News Corp. Stock shall be invested in the News Corp. Stock Fund as received, or as soon as practicable thereafter.

(c) News Corp. Stock acquired by the Trustee under the terms of this Plan shall be registered in the name of the Trustee, or its nominee, who in the limited circumstances in which shareholders are entitled to vote, shall vote the shares (including fractions) credited to each Participant as instructed by the Participant, and shall vote the shares for which instructions are not timely received as it determines in its discretion in its capacity as Trustee.

Section 4.08 - �� Account Valuation

The Trustee, Company or record-keeper (or other designee of the Administrator) shall forward after the end of each Plan Year (or such other times as may be determined by the Administrator) to each Participant a statement, in such form as the Administrator shall determine, setting forth pertinent information relative to each Participant’s Account. Such statement shall, for all purposes, be deemed to have been accepted as correct unless the Participant properly contests such statement in accordance with the claims procedure under Section 9.09.

ARTICLE V

VESTING; BENEFIT AND WITHDRAWAL RIGHTS

Section 5.01 - Vesting of Participant Contributions and Deferrals

That portion of a Participant’s Account which represents his own contributions, or which represents amounts authorized by the Participant to be deferred from his Compensation and contributed by the Company under Section 2.01(b), adjusted for earnings, gains and losses thereon, shall be Vested at all times.

Section 5.02 - Vesting of Company Matching Contributions

That portion of a Participant’s Account which represents a Company’s Contribution under Section 3.01 (other than Qualified Nonelective Contributions under Section 3.01(d) which are 100% Vested) for any month, adjusted for earnings, gains and losses thereon, shall become Vested on the earliest of:

(a) His Retirement,

(b) The last day of the calendar month preceding his Normal Retirement Age,

(d) His Separation from the Service because of a Company layoff,

(e) His Separation from the Service because of a determination by the use of a third party retained by the Company to make such a determination that the Participant has become permanently unable to discharge his assigned duties as a result of mental or physical disease or condition,

(f) His Separation from the Service because of Military Service,

(g) For Company Contributions made to the Plan prior to December 1, 2002, his completion of a period of two (2) complete Plan Years after the Plan Year of contribution, in each of which he was employed by the Company or the Controlled Group,

(h) For any Participant credited with an Hour of Service after November 30, 1989 and before December 1, 2002, his service with the Company or a member of the Controlled Group for which the Participant is credited with five (5) Years of Service, or

(i) For any Participant credited with an Hour of Service after November 30, 2002, his service with the Company or a member of the Controlled Group for which the Participant is credited with three (3) Years of Service.

Section 5.03 - Distribution Following Separation

(a) Within sixty (60) days following the later of the Participant’s Separation from the Service or receipt of a Participant Direction, or as soon thereafter as administratively feasible, the Participant (or his Beneficiary, in the event of death) shall receive or shall commence receipt of the Dollar Balance of the Vested portion of his Account valued as of the Valuation Date on which the Participant Direction is effective, and will be paid as provided in the Participant Direction either in a lump sum or in a manner specified in Section 5.04. In any event, unless the Participant elects or is deemed to have elected otherwise as provided herein and in Section 5.04, the payment of benefits under the Plan to the Participant or his Beneficiary shall begin following a Participant Direction not later than the sixtieth (60th) day after the close of the Plan Year in which falls the latest of:

(i) the date on which the Participant attains age sixty-five (65);

(ii) the tenth (10th) anniversary of the year in which the Participant commenced participation in the Plan; or

(iii) the date of the Participant’s Separation from the Service.

(b) Except as provided in paragraph (c), the portion of his Account which is not Vested shall be forfeited:

(i) for a Participant whose Separation from the Service is processed by the Administrator prior to March 1, 1997, as of the Valuation Date coinciding with or next following the date of the Participant’s Separation from the Service;

(ii) for a Participant whose Separation from the Service is processed by the Administrator on or after March 1, 1997 and prior to June 1, 1998, as of the Valuation Date coinciding with or next following the date the Participant incurs five (5) consecutive Break in Service Years; and

(iii) for a Participant whose Separation from the Service is processed by the Administrator on or after June 1, 1998,

a. for a Participant who is not vested and who, as a result, is deemed to have received a cash out of his distribution on his Separation from the Service, and for a partially Vested Participant who voluntarily or involuntarily receives a distribution as of the Valuation Date coinciding with or next following the latest of April 1, 2003, the date of the Participant’s Separation from the Service or the receipt of a Participant Direction electing the commencement of the distribution of his Vested Account; and

b. for a Participant who is partially Vested and who does not elect to receive a distribution of his Vested Benefit before incurring five

(5) consecutive Break in Service Years, as of the Valuation Date coinciding with or next following the date the Participant incurs five (5) consecutive Break in Service Years.

(i) for Plan Years prior to December 1, 1989, the Participant is an Employee on the last day of any of the five (5) consecutive Plan Years beginning with the year in which such Separation from the Service occurred, and

(ii) for Plan Years beginning on or after December 1, 1989 and prior to April 1, 2003, the Participant is reemployed prior to incurring five (5) consecutive Break in Service Years; and

(iii) effective on and after April 1, 2003, the Participant is reemployed prior to incurring five (5) consecutive Break in Service Years;

provided, however, with respect to a Participant described in paragraphs (i) or (ii), upon resuming employment with the Company, no repayment of the amounts distributed shall be permitted or required; and with respect to a Participant described paragraph (iii), the Participant repays to the Plan the full amount of the distribution prior to five (5) years following the first date on which the Participant resumes employment with the Company.

(d) Effective July 1, 1999, if the Dollar Balance of the Vested portion of his Account does not exceed $5,000 (the “Maximum Cash Out Level”), payment of benefits at the Maximum Cash Out Level (or at a lesser cash out amount as may be determined by the Plan Administrator in its sole discretion from time to time) will be made (or for the Participant who is zero Vested, the entire Dollar Balance of his Account shall be deemed to have been made in a lump sum) as provided herein without the need of a Participant Direction. If the Dollar Balance of the Vested portion of the Participant’s Account exceeds $5,000, then the Participant must consent in writing to a distribution that commences prior to the date on which the Participant attains age sixty-five (65).

Section 5.04 - Installment and Lump Sum Distributions and Commencement of Distribution

(a) Upon a Separation from the Service, a Participant will, subject to the restrictions of this paragraph, the minimum distribution requirements of Article XIII, and the Participant consent requirements of Section 5.03(d), receive distributions in accordance with the following:

(i) Election Within 30 Days Following Separation from the Service: if the Participant elects, by giving a Participant Direction within thirty (30) days following Separation from the Service, then:

a. Lump Sum Distributions: the Participant may commence immediate receipt of the Dollar Balance in a lump sum, or elect to defer commencement to not later than age 70-1/2; or

b. Installment Distributions: if the Participant has a Separation from the Service by reason of Retirement, the Participant may elect to receive distributions of the Participant’s Dollar Balance in annual installment payments over a period of no less than two (2) nor more than ten (10) years, or defer the receipt of the Participant’s Dollar Balance to not later than the Participant’s Required Beginning Date; and following the deferral period, to receive the Participant’s Dollar Balance in annual installments over a period of no less that two (2) nor more than ten (10) years; provided such distributions satisfy the minimum distribution requirements of Article XIII.

(ii) No Election Within 30 Days of Separation from the Service: if a Participant makes no election within thirty (30) days of Separation from the Service and does not make an election as provided in paragraph (iii), the Participant shall be deemed to have elected a distribution as provided in Section 13.03(a) commencing not later than the Participant’s Required Beginning Date.

(iii) Election To Take Lump Sum: if a Participant either makes no election within thirty (30) days of Separation from the Service, elects to defer receipt of the lump sum distribution under subparagraph (a)(i)a or elects installment payments under subparagraph (a)(i)b, and then subsequently elects following his Separation from the Service to receive a lump sum, then the Participant’s Dollar Balance shall be distributed in a lump sum.

(b) Payment of Annual Installments: If a Participant elects to receive his Dollar Balance in annual installments, the first installment shall be made within sixty (60) days, or as soon as administratively feasible thereafter following the Valuation Date coinciding with or next following termination of the deferral period under subparagraph (a)(i)b, or within sixty (60) days, or as soon as administratively feasible thereafter following the Valuation Date coinciding with or next following his Separation from the Service. The amount of each installment shall be equal to the portion of the Dollar Balance then payable determined in accordance with Section 4.01 as of the Valuation Date coinciding with or next following the Participant’s Separation from the Service, or anniversary date thereof, or the date of termination of the deferral period, or anniversary date thereof, as applicable divided by the then remaining installment period. Payments shall be distributed proportionately from each Investment Option of the Participant.

(c) Payment of Lump Sum: if the Participant elects to receive his Dollar Balance in a lump sum, the amount of such lump sum shall be equal to the Vested Dollar Balance of his Account valued as of the Valuation Date coinciding with or next following receipt by the Administrator of a Participant Direction and will be paid within sixty (60) days, or as soon as administratively feasible thereafter following such Valuation Date.

(d) A Participant may elect by a Participant Direction in any distribution under this Section, Sections 5.05 or 5.11 or Article XIII to receive shares of Class H Common Stock prior to December 22, 2003, or DIRECTV Common Stock, News Corp. Stock or Raytheon Stock, as applicable, allocated to his Account provided the number of shares to be distributed in a lump sum is a whole number, or to receive cash in lieu of part or all thereof.

(e) The Dollar Balance of any distribution under this Section shall be distributed proportionately from each Investment Option of the Participant, and shall not receive credit for any interest, earnings, gains or losses from the applicable Valuation Date to the date of receipt by the Participant.

Section 5.05 - Withdrawals of After-Tax Contributions and Certain Vested Company Contributions

(a) A Participant either prior to or following a Separation from the Service (or former Participant who is deemed not to have incurred a Separation from the Service because such former Participant continues employment on the same job for a different employer as a result of a liquidation, sale, merger or the like between the Company and the new employer (including successors to the new employer) thereby making the former Participant subject to the “same desk rule”) may from time to time, following a Participant Direction to the Administrator, elect to withdraw some or all of that portion of the Dollar Balance of his Account (including earnings) commencing first from amounts described in (i) until fully withdrawn and thereafter from amounts described in (ii), as follows:

(i) his own contributions made pursuant to Section 2.01(a), and

(ii) the Dollar Balance of the Vested Company Matching Contributions.

A Participant may not withdraw any portion of the Dollar Balance of his Account representing amounts deferred from his Compensation and contributed by the Company under Section 2.01(b) except as provided under Section 5.08, or representing Company Matching Contributions that must remain invested in the DIRECTV Common Stock Fund (and prior to December 22, 2003, Class H Common Stock Fund) until the earlier of the end of the two (2) full Plan Years following the Plan Year of such contributions or deferrals as required by Section 3.01(e) or such other date as may be determined by DIRECTV. Withdrawals shall be valued as of the Valuation Date coinciding with or next following the date in which notice of withdrawal is received by the Administrator and shall be paid to a Participant within sixty (60) days, or as soon as administratively feasible thereafter, following such Valuation Date. In no event may a Participant’s total withdrawals under this Section from any Investment Option exceed the total amount actually contributed by him to such Investment Option.

(b) The Dollar Balance of any distribution under this Section shall be distributed proportionately from each Investment Option of the Participant, and shall not receive credit for any interest, earnings, gains or losses from the applicable Valuation Date to the date of receipt by the Participant.

(d) A Participant may not make a withdrawal within twenty-six (26) weeks of any prior withdrawal under this Section.

(e) Effective January 1, 2000, a processing fee of $20 (or such other amount as may be set by the Plan Administrator) will be charged to the Participant’s Account for each Participant withdrawal hereunder.

Section 5.06 - No Repayment of Withdrawals

A Participant may not pay back amounts withdrawn from his Account.

Section 5.07 - Forfeiture of Non-Vested Company Contributions

All forfeitures shall be credited against (and to that extent reduce) further Company contributions, as provided in Section 3.03.

Section 5.08 - Hardship Withdrawals

(a) Prior to incurring a Separation from the Service, a Participant may request a hardship distribution from his Account of amounts authorized by the Participant to be deferred from his Compensation and contributed by the Company under Section 2.01(b) (including any income attributable to such amounts prior to 1989), or received as a rollover contribution under Section 12.04(a) (including earnings). For the purposes of this Section, a hardship distribution shall be in the minimum amount of $250 and shall mean a distribution (including any amounts necessary to pay federal, state or local income taxes or penalties reasonably anticipated to result from the distribution):

(i) which distribution is determined by the Administrator based on all relevant facts and circumstances to be necessary to meet the immediate and heavy financial needs of the Participant, or

(ii) which distribution is deemed to be necessary to meet the immediate and heavy financial needs of the Participant if used to:

a. pay costs directly related to the purchase of the Participant’s principal residence (excluding mortgage payments),

b. pay tuition, related educational fees, and room and board expenses for the next twelve (12) months of post-secondary schooling of the Participant, the Participant’s spouse, or the Participant’s children or dependents,

c. pay medical expenses described in Section 213(d) of the Code previously incurred by the Participant, the Participant’s spouse, or any dependents (as described in Section 152 of the Code) or necessary for these persons to obtain medical care described in Section 213(d) of the Code which the Participant is obligated to pay and which are not otherwise payable under any insurance coverage in force for the Participant, or

d. to prevent the eviction of the Participant from, or a foreclosure on the mortgage or deed of trust of, the Participant’s principal residence; and

(iii) which does not exceed the amount required to meet the immediate and heavy financial needs as described in subparagraphs (a)(i) and (ii), and which is not reasonably available from other resources of the Participant as described in paragraph (b).

(b) In order to receive a hardship distribution, a Participant must file a Participant Direction with the Administrator detailing the facts necessary to satisfy the requirements of subparagraph (a)(iii) and if applicable subparagraph (a)(i). A hardship will be treated as satisfying the requirements of subparagraph (a)(iii) if the Administrator reasonably relies on the Participant Direction unless the Administrator has actual knowledge to the contrary that the need cannot be reasonably relieved from other sources, including assets of the Participant’s spouse and minor children that are reasonably available to the Participant, such as insurance proceeds, liquidation of assets of the Participant (including withdrawal of benefits from the Plan under Sections 5.05 and 5.11, and Participant loans under Section 5.09), and cessation of Participant contributions to the Plan, or loans from other plans maintained by the Company, or by borrowing from commercial lenders on reasonable commercial terms. Any amounts distributed as a hardship distribution shall be in a single sum paid by the Trustee, in accordance with the direction of the Administrator, as soon as practicable after receipt by the Administrator of such a request. The Administrator shall determine whether a financial hardship exists and the amount required to be distributed to meet the need created by the hardship in a uniform and nondiscriminatory manner.

(c) A Participant who exercises the right of withdrawal in the event of hardship shall not incur a forfeiture of any Company contributions and shall continue participation in the Plan, unless otherwise ineligible as provided by the terms of the Plan.

(d) The Dollar Balance of any distribution under this Section shall be distributed proportionately from each Investment Option of the Participant, and shall not receive credit for any interest, earnings, gains or losses from the applicable Valuation Date to the date of receipt by the Participant.

Section 5.09 - Participant Loans

(a) Subject to the approval and in accordance with the rules of the Administrator which is responsible for establishing a Participant loan program, a Participant either prior to or following a Separation from the Service (including a Participant who is deemed not to have had a Separation from the Service because of the same desk rule), may borrow from the Trust for a period of not less than one (1) year and not longer than four (4) years, an amount of not less than $1,000 nor in the aggregate more than the lesser of 50% of the Vested portion of the Dollar Balance of his Account, or the difference between $50,000 and the Participant’s highest loan balance from the Plan during the one-year period ending on the day before the date on which the new loan is made. A loan processing fee of $65 (or such other amount as may be set by DIRECTV) will be charged to the Participant’s Account for each Participant loan.

(b) Any such loan (together with all other outstanding Participant loans, which loans may not exceed three (3)) shall be secured by 50% of the Participant’s Vested portion of his Account and shall bear interest at 1% over the Prime Rate as published in the Eastern edition of The Wall Street Journal on the last Business Day of the month preceding the month in which the loan is made.

(c) If either principal or interest on any such loan is not paid within one hundred and twenty (120) days after the date when due, and in any event, five (5) years from the date of the loan (hereinafter the “Deemed Distribution Date”), the full amount of the unpaid principal and accrued interest will be treated as a deemed distribution and reported as such in the calendar year in which the Deemed Distribution Date occurs by the Trustee from the Participant’s Account assigned as security as determined by the Administrator. For any former Employee who incurs a Separation from the Service, any participant loan that was treated as a deemed distribution may, at the discretion of the Administrator, be treated as an actual distribution on account of a plan loan offset.

(d) Any such loan repayment and any interest received thereon shall be allocated to the Account of the borrowing Participant among the various Investment Options (except the Raytheon Stock Fund and the News Corp. Stock Fund) as selected by the Participant for contributions as provided in Section 3.01-A(a).

(e) While any such loan remains outstanding, no borrowing may be made more often than once in any six (6) month period.

(f) In the event the Participant elects to take a distribution of his Account, then the entire outstanding balance of principal and interest, if any, shall be immediately due and payable. Unless paid in full, such unpaid principal and interest may be collected by the Trustee from the Participant’s Account in the same priorities as set forth in paragraph (c). In the event of a distribution of a Participant’s Account, all loans from the Trust to the Participant shall be distributed to the Participant or to his Beneficiary in the event of death, as soon as administratively feasible.

(g) A Participant who is not on the active payroll of a Company shall make monthly payments to the Administrator in accordance with a loan repayment schedule.

(h) Amounts collected from the Participant’s Account under paragraphs (c) or (f) shall be treated as a distribution, and to the extent taxable shall be reported to the Internal Revenue Service.

Section 5.10 - Distribution on Sale of Assets or Sale of Subsidiary

Within sixty (60) days after the Valuation Date coinciding with or next following the disposition by a Company described in paragraphs (a) or (b), the approval by DIRECTV, and election by the Participant, or as soon thereafter as administratively feasible, the Participant shall receive the Dollar Balance of the Vested portion of his Account valued as of the Valuation Date coinciding with or next following such disposition and approval in a lump sum.

(a) The disposition by a Company to an unrelated corporation of substantially all of the assets (within the meaning of Section 409(d)(2) of the Code and as provided by Section 1.401(k)-1(d)(4) of the regulations) used in a trade or business of such Company if such Company continues to maintain this Plan after the disposition, but only with respect to employees who continue employment with the corporation acquiring such assets.

(b) The disposition by a Company to an unrelated entity of such Company’s interest in a subsidiary (within the meaning of Section 409(d)(3) of the Code and as provided by Section 1.401(k)-(d)(4) of the regulations) if such Company continues to maintain this Plan, but only with respect to employees who continue employment with such subsidiary.

Section 5.11 - Withdrawal by Participant Following Age 59-1/2

(a) Following the attainment of age fifty-nine and one-half (59-1/2) and either prior to or following a Separation from the Service (including a Participant who is deemed not to have had a Separation from the Service because of the same desk rule), a Participant following a Participant Direction to the Administrator may elect from time to time to withdraw some or all of that portion of the Dollar Balance of his vested Account, except for the Company Matching Contribution that must remain invested in the DIRECTV Common Stock Fund (and prior to December 22, 2003, Class H Common Stock Fund) until the earlier of the end of the two (2) full Plan Years following the Plan Year of such contributions or deferrals as required by Section 3.01(e) or such other date as may be determined by DIRECTV. Withdrawals shall be valued as of the Valuation Date coinciding with or next following the date on which notice of withdrawals is received by the Administrator and shall be paid to a Participant within sixty (60) days from such Valuation Date, or as soon as administratively feasible thereafter in a lump sum. In no event may a Participant withdraw any portion of his Account that is not vested.

(b) A withdrawal under this Section shall be in the minimum amount of $250.

ARTICLE VI

SUSPENSION OF DEFERRAL OF COMPENSATION AND CONTRIBUTIONS

Section 6.01 - Voluntary Suspension of Deferrals and Contributions

(a) A Participant may at any time elect to suspend deferral of Compensation or payroll deductions for purposes of Section 2.01 of the Plan until further notice. Suspension shall become effective commencing with the first payroll period following the receipt of a Participant Direction by the Administrator, or as soon thereafter as administratively feasible.

(b) Such a suspended Participant may resume deferral of Compensation or payroll deductions for the purposes of the Plan (if he is then an Eligible Employee), not later than the first payroll period following the receipt of a Participant Direction by the Administrator, or as soon thereafter as administratively feasible.

Section 6.02 - Involuntary Suspension of Deferrals and Contributions

(a) A Participant’s deferral of Compensation or payroll deductions for the purposes of the Plan shall be suspended whenever:

(i) no payment of Compensation is made to the Participant or the amount payable after all other deductions required by law or the Company is less than the full deduction for the purposes of the Plan, or

(ii) the Participant, although an Employee, is not an Eligible Employee, or

(iii) payroll deductions for purposes of the Plan would be contrary to law.

(b) Unless a suspended Participant gives a Participant Direction to the Administrator to the contrary, such Participant’s previously authorized deferral of Compensation or payroll deductions shall resume automatically effective the first payroll period following the date when the cause of suspension is terminated, or as soon thereafter as administratively feasible.

Section 6.03 - Participation During Suspension

(a) Suspension of a Participant’s deferral of Compensation or payroll deduction for purposes of the Plan, whether voluntary or involuntary, shall not interrupt his continuity of participation in the Plan or otherwise affect his benefit and withdrawal rights, which shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of Article V.

(b) During the period of a Participant’s suspension, the Company contributions on his behalf under Section 3.01 shall be similarly suspended, but the Trustee shall continue to value as of each Valuation Date during such period the Participant’s Account in accordance with the provisions of Article IV.

ARTICLE VII

PAYMENT TO A BENEFICIARY

Section 7.01 - Death Benefit Payment to Beneficiary

(a) If a Participant dies, payment of the benefits provided under the Plan shall be made to his Beneficiary upon receipt by the Administrator of evidence satisfactory to it of the death of the Participant and of the identity and existence at the time of death of the Beneficiary of the Participant.

(b) A Beneficiary by a Participant Direction may specify any form of benefit distribution, subject to Section 7.02 and as permitted under Sections 5.03 and 5.04 of the Plan, and if the Beneficiary gives a Participant Direction to the Administrator within sixty (60) days after the Participant’s death that payment is to be made in a form specified in Section 5.03 or 5.04 of this Plan, then payment shall be made in accordance with such election.

(c) If the Beneficiary fails to give a Participant Direction as provided in Section 7.01(b) above, then payment shall be made in cash in a lump sum valued as of the Valuation Date coinciding with or next following the receipt of all required documentation for distribution.

Section 7.02 - Form and Timing of Death Benefit Payment

Upon the death of the Participant, distribution will be made in accordance with Section 7.01, provided that distribution occurs at least as rapidly as follows:

(a) If the Participant dies after distribution of benefits provided under the Plan has commenced, the remaining portion of such benefit may continue to be distributed at least as rapidly as under the method of distribution being used prior to the Participant’s death.

(b) If the Participant dies before distribution of benefits provided under the Plan commences and if the Designated Beneficiary elects to defer commencement as provided in Section 7.01, Benefits must be distributed either at least as rapidly as provided in Sections 13.02 and 13.04, or if elected by the Designated Beneficiary, in a lump sum.

Section 7.03 - Beneficiary of Married Participant

If the Participant is married, the Beneficiary is the Participant’s surviving spouse, unless the surviving spouse has consented in writing to the designation of another Beneficiary and the surviving spouse’s signature has been witnessed by a Plan representative or notary public; provided, however, spousal consent is not required if the Participant is legally separated, or the Participant has been abandoned and the Participant has a court order to that effect unless a qualified domestic relations order as defined in Section 414(p) of the Code provides otherwise. If the spouse is legally incompetent to give consent, the spouse’s legal guardian, even if the guardian is the Participant, may give the consent. A Participant may change his designation of Beneficiary at any time effective upon filing with the Administrator a Participant Direction of such change, provided that the Participant’s spouse, if any, has consented thereto as herein provided.

ARTICLE VIII

TRUST AGREEMENT

Section 8.01 - Appointment of Trustee

The Trust Fund shall be held by a corporate Trustee or Trustees selected by DIRECTV pursuant to the Trust Agreement. References in the Plan to Trustee shall be deemed to be applicable with equal force to co-Trustees or successor Trustees who may be so designated by DIRECTV. DIRECTV may from time to time remove any Trustee or Trustees and may appoint substitute, successor and co-Trustees.

Section 8.02 - Provisions of Trust Agreement

The Trust Agreement is and shall be in such form and contain such provisions as DIRECTV deems appropriate and shall be deemed to form a part of the Plan. All rights and benefits that may accrue to any person under the Plan shall be subject to all the terms and provisions of the Trust Agreement.

Section 8.03 - Express Benefit Limitation

Nothing in the Plan or in the Trust Agreement shall be deemed to confer any legal or equitable right or interest in the Trust Fund in favor of any Participant, Beneficiary or other person except to the extent expressly provided in the Plan.

Section 8.04 - No Guarantee of Benefit

Neither the Companies nor the Trustee warrant or represent in any way that amounts contributed to the Plan or transferred to one or more Investment Options will earn any particular investment return or that the amount in any Investment Option, whether contributed by the Participant or the Companies, will be preserved. Each Participant assumes this risk as to his own Account except as otherwise provided by ERISA.

Section 8.05 - Payment of Costs, Expenses and Taxes

(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), all routine costs and expenses incurred in the administration of the Plan, except brokerage fees, commissions, stock transfer taxes, and any other fees and expenses relating to the acquisition or disposition of DIRECTV Common Stock, News Corp. Stock, and Raytheon Stock shall be borne by the Companies.

(b) The following costs and expenses will be paid by the Trust Fund:

(i) counsel fees and expenses relating to acquisition or disposition of property, counsel fees and expenses incurred in connection with legal services relating to the Plan that at the sole discretion of DIRECTV are not paid under paragraph (a), brokerage fees, commissions, stock transfer taxes, and fees and expenses of Investment Managers will be allocated among the Trust Fund as determined by the Administrator, and

(ii) the fees and expenses of the Trustee, fees for administrative and record-keeping services (including Participant disclosures and Plan testing requirements) provided by the Trustee, by DIRECTV or a third party will be allocated on an estimated basis among Participants, as determined by the Administrator.

(c) Taxes incurred, if any, payable by the Trustee on the assets at any time held in the Trust Fund or on the income thereof shall be paid from the Trust Fund.

Section 8.06 - Common Investments with the Savings Plus Plan

(a) DIRECTV sponsors the Savings Plus Plan that provides for investment in separate funds similar to the Funds provided for in this Plan. To facilitate investment, the Trustee may hold the Funds under this Plan in common with the Funds for the Savings Plus Plan, as well as with funds of qualified plans sponsored by any related company as may be approved by DIRECTV. The Trustee shall, however, maintain separate accounts accurately reflecting the equitable shares and the assets of each such Fund so that valuations thereof and determinations of Unit values for each such Fund may be made as and when required by this Plan and the Savings Plus Plan.

(b) The Administrator may, at any time, direct the Trustee to segregate and withdraw the Trust Fund from such common holding with the Savings Plus Plan Trust Fund and the Trustee shall promptly do so. The Trustee’s valuation of assets for the purpose of such segregation and withdrawal shall be conclusive, except as provided in ERISA.

ARTICLE IX

ADMINISTRATION

Section 9.01 - Authority of Administrator

The Administrator shall conduct the general administration of the Plan in accordance with the Plan and Trust Agreement (except that any Committee appointed under Section 9.03 shall have no power or duty to manage or control assets of the Plan) and shall have the discretionary power and authority to carry out that function, including the following discretionary powers and authority:

(a) To determine questions of eligibility of Participants and the entitlement to benefits of Participants, Beneficiaries and all other persons.

(b) As required by law, to engage and designate a qualified public accountant meeting the requirements of Section 103(a)(3)(D) of ERISA, and other accountants, attorneys, appraisers, brokers, consultants, administrators, physicians or other persons and (with the Companies and their officers, directors and employees) to rely upon the advice, opinions or valuations of any such persons and, except as required by law, be fully protected in acting or relying thereon in good faith.

(d) To conduct claims procedures as provided in Section 9.09.

(e) To delegate any power or duty to any other person or persons including a committee appointed pursuant to Section 9.03.

(f) To impose a reasonable charge to cover the cost of furnishing to Participants or Beneficiaries upon their written request documents as required under Section 104(b)(4) of ERISA (but not for furnishing information, statements or documents as required by Section 104(b)(1), (2) or (3) or Section 104(c) or Section 105(a) or (c) of ERISA).

(g) To exercise any powers delegated to the Administrator by the Trust Agreement.

Section 9.02 - Prohibition Against Discrimination

The Plan shall not be operated so as to discriminate in favor of Participants who are officers or shareholders or who are highly compensated. The Plan shall be uniformly and consistently interpreted and applied with regard to all Participants in similar circumstances. The Plan shall be administered, interpreted and applied fairly and equitably and in accordance with the specified purposes of the Plan.

Section 9.03 - Administrative Committee

DIRECTV may, but need not, appoint an Administrative Committee consisting of one or more members to function as the Administrator.

Section 9.04 - Compensation of Committee

(a) The members of the Committee shall receive no remuneration from the Trust Fund for their services as such.

(b) Except as provided in Section 8.05(b), the Companies shall pay or reimburse each Employee functioning under Section 9.01(e), each member of such Committee for all expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) properly incurred in the performance of his functions under the Plan and Trust Agreement.

(c) The Companies shall indemnify and hold each such Employee and each member of any such Committee harmless from all claims, liabilities and costs (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of the good faith performance of his functions hereunder.

(d) The Companies may obtain and provide for any such Employee and Committee member, at the Companies’ expense, liability insurance against liabilities imposed on him by law.

(e) Expenses referred to in Section 9.04(b) not paid by the Companies shall be paid from the Trust Fund to the extent permitted by law.

(f) Fees and expenses of persons (other than Employees who function under Section 9.01(e), and any Committee members) shall not be paid or reimbursed by the Companies except as agreed upon by the Companies.

Section 9.05 - Effect of Administrative Action

Except as provided in Section 9.09, all actions taken and all determinations made by the Administrator and the Companies in good faith shall be final and binding upon all Participants, Beneficiaries, the Trustee and any person interested in the Plan or Trust Fund.

Section 9.06 - Payments and Prohibition of Assignment

(a) The Trustee shall, except as otherwise provided in paragraph (b), pay all amounts payable hereunder only to the person or persons designated under the Plan and not to any other person or corporation. The receipt of the person to whom such payment is made shall be complete discharge to the Trustee for any sums so paid.

(b) In the event any controversy shall arise as to the person or persons to whom any distribution or payment is to be made by the Trustee, or as to any other matter arising in the administration of the Plan, the Trustee may retain the amount in controversy and shall not be liable for the payment of any interest or income on any such amount except to the extent of gains, if any, of the Trust Fund attributable thereto.

(c) No part of the Trust Fund shall be liable for the debts, contracts or engagements of any Participant, his Beneficiaries or successors in interest, or be taken in execution by levy, attachment or garnishment or by any other legal or equitable proceeding, while in the hands of the Trustee, nor shall any such person have any right to alienate, anticipate, commute, pledge, encumber, or assign any benefits or payments hereunder in any manner whatsoever, except to designate a Beneficiary and as provided in Section 5.09. The preceding sentence shall apply to the creation, assignment, or recognition of a right to any benefit payable with respect to a Participant pursuant to a domestic relations order, unless such order is determined to be a qualified domestic relations order as defined in Section 414(p) of the Code (“QDRO”), or unless the Administrator determines in its sole discretion to treat any domestic relations order entered into before January 1, 1985, as a QDRO. Notwithstanding any other provisions contained in the Plan to the contrary, payment of benefits from the Plan to an alternate payee under a QDRO will commence as soon as administratively feasible following receipt of a QDRO and will be in the form of a lump sum distribution. Effective December 1, 2003, a processing fee of $750 (or such other amount as may be set by the Plan Administrator) will be charged and allocated one-half to the Participant’s Account and one-half to the Alternate Payee’s Account for each domestic relations order reviewed hereunder.

Section 9.07 - Maintenance of Name and Address

Each Participant shall be responsible for furnishing the Administrator with his correct current address and correct current name and address of his Beneficiary.

Section 9.08 - Communication Requirements

(a) All applications, notices, designations, elections, and other communications from Participants shall be a Participant Direction as prescribed by the Administrator, and shall be mailed or delivered in such manner as required by the Administrator to such office as may be designated by the Administrator, and shall be deemed to have been given when received by the Administrator.

(b) Each notice, report, remittance, statement and other communication directed to a Participant or Beneficiary shall be in writing and may be delivered in person or by mail, in which latter event it shall be deemed to have been delivered and received by the Participant or Beneficiaries when so deposited in the United States mail with postage prepaid and addressed to the Participant or Beneficiary at his last address of record with the Administrator.

Section 9.09 - Claims Procedure

(a) A claim by a Participant, former Participant, Beneficiary or any other person shall be presented to the Director, Human Resources of DIRECTV or such other claims official as may be appointed by DIRECTV in writing within the maximum time permitted by law or under the regulations promulgated by the Secretary of Labor or his delegate pertaining to claims procedures.

(b) The claims official shall, within a reasonable time, consider the claim and shall issue his determination thereon in writing.

(c) If the claim is granted, the appropriate distribution or payment shall be made from the Trust Fund or by the Companies.

(d) If the claim is wholly or partially denied, the claims official shall, within a reasonable time, provide the claimant with written notice of such denial, setting forth, in a manner calculated to be understood by the claimant:

(i) the specific reason or reasons for such denial,

(ii) specific references to pertinent Plan provisions on which the denial is based,

(iii) a description of any additional material or information necessary for the claimant to perfect the claim and an explanation of why such material or information is necessary, and

(iv) an explanation of the Plan’s claim review procedure.

(e) The Administrator shall provide each claimant with a reasonable opportunity to appeal the claims official’s denial of a claim to it for a full and fair review. The claimant or his duly authorized representative:

(i) may request a review upon written application filed with the Administrator,

(ii) may review pertinent documents, and

(iii) may submit issues and comments in writing.

(f) The Administration may establish such time limits within which a claimant may request review of a denied claim as are reasonable in relation to the nature of the benefit which is the subject of the claim and to other attendant circumstances but which, in no event, shall be less than sixty (60) days after receipt by the claimant of written notice of denial of his claim.

(g) The decision by the Administrator upon review of a claim shall be made not later than sixty (60) days after its receipt of the request for review, unless special circumstances require an extension of time for processing, in which case a decision shall be rendered as soon as possible, but not later than one hundred twenty (120) days after receipt of such request for review.

(h) The decision on review shall be in writing and shall include specific reasons for the decision written in a manner calculated to be understood by the claimant with specific references to the pertinent Plan provisions on which the decision is based.

(i) To the extent permitted by law, the decision of the claims official (if no review is properly requested) or the decision of the Administrator on review, as the case may be, shall be final and binding on all parties, if warranted on the record and reasonably based on the law and the provisions of the Plan and Trust Agreement.

Section 9.10 - Withholding of Taxes

Some payments out of the Trust Fund may be subject to either mandatory or voluntary withholding for taxes as required by law. Any Participant who makes, or is eligible to make, an election for voluntary withholding may not make or change a withholding election after the Trustee prepares the distribution check.

ARTICLE X

TERMINATION AND AMENDMENT OF THE PLAN

Section 10.01 - Termination or Partial Termination of Plan

(a) The Plan is intended as a permanent program, but DIRECTV shall have the right at any time to declare the Plan terminated or completely to discontinue contributions to the Plan at any time, as to all Companies, or with respect to any Company or any division, facility or functional operation of a Company. In the event of any termination or partial termination, the interest of each Participant with respect to whom the Plan is terminated in his Account shall become fully Vested. Except as otherwise required under Section 403(d)(1) of ERISA, in the event of such termination, the Administrator shall direct the Trustee to liquidate the Trust Fund and distribute it, less a proportionate share of the expenses of termination, to the persons entitled thereto in proportion to their Account.

(b) Failure of the Companies to make one (1) or more substantial contributions to the Plan for any period of three (3) consecutive Plan Years in each of which the Companies realized substantial current earnings, as shown on their financial reports, shall automatically become a complete discontinuance of contributions at the end of the third such consecutive Plan Year.

(c) In the event of complete discontinuance of contributions to the Plan, the Plan and Trust shall otherwise remain in full force and effect except that all Accounts shall thereupon become fully Vested.

Section 10.02 - Amendment of Plan

As limited in Section 10.01 and the Trust Agreement, complete or partial amendments or modifications to the Plan (including retroactive amendments to meet governmental requirements or prerequisites for tax qualification) may be made from time to time by DIRECTV; provided, however, that no amendment shall decrease the Vested percentage or amount of interest any Participant has in his Account or eliminate an optional form of benefit protected under Section 411(d)(6) of the Code. Effective December 1, 1989, any amendment hereto which changes any vesting schedule or which affects any automatic change to or from a top heavy vesting schedule shall not be effective as to any Participant who has at least three (3) Years of Service with the Company if such Participant elects, within a reasonable time after the adoption of such amendment, to have his Vested interest computed without regard to such amendment. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, contributions by the Companies and Participants to the Plan are hereby expressly conditioned upon the issuance by the Internal Revenue Service of a favorable determination letter regarding the Plan’s qualification under Section 401 of the Code and upon the deductibility under Section 404 of said Code of Company contributions; and the Administrator may direct the Trustee to return to the Companies and/or the Participants amounts attributable to any contributions made by them if and to the extent the Administrator deems it necessary to obtain such a determination letter or (with respect to Company contributions) to the extent the Administrator deems in excess of the amounts deductible.

ARTICLE XI

TOP HEAVY PROVISIONS

Section 11.01 - Top Heavy Definitions

Whenever any of the following terms is used in the Plan with the first letter or letters capitalized, it shall have the meaning specified below unless the context clearly indicates to the contrary.

(a) “Aggregation Group” means each qualified plan (including the Plan) of the Company or Companies in which a Key Employee is a Participant, and each other plan of the Company or Companies which enable the Plan or plans containing a Key Employee to meet the anti-discrimination requirements of Sections 401(a)(4) or 410 of the Code. In addition, the Administrator may include in the Aggregation Group any other plan of the Company or Companies that satisfies the requirements of Sections 401(a)(4) and 410 of the Code when considered together with the Plan and the other plans in the Aggregation Group.

(b) “Compensation” means, except as provided in paragraph (d), compensation stated on the Participant’s Form W-2 for the calendar year that ends with or within the Plan Year.

(d) “Key Employee” means for Plan Years after November 30, 2002, any Employee or former Employee (including any deceased Employee) who at any time during the Plan Year that includes the determination date was an officer of the Company having annual compensation greater than $130,000 (as adjusted under Section 416(i)(1) of the Code for Plan Years beginning after December 31, 2002), a 5-percent owner of the Company, or a 1-percent owner of the Company having annual compensation of more than $150,000. For this purpose, annual compensation means compensation within the meaning of section 415(c)(3) of the Code. The determination of who is a key Employee will be made in accordance with Section 416(i)(1) of the Code and the applicable regulations and other guidance of general applicability issued thereunder.

(e) “Non-Key Employee” means an Employee who is not a Key Employee. The beneficiaries of an Employee acquire the character of such Employee. For purposes of this paragraph, Compensation shall have the same meaning as defined in Section 415(c)(3), but including Company contributions made pursuant to a salary reduction arrangement.

(f) “Top Heavy Group” means any Aggregation Group if the sum of the present value of cumulative accrued benefits for Key Employees under all defined benefit pension plans included in the Aggregation Group, and the sum of the accounts of Key Employees under all defined contribution plans included in the Aggregation Group, exceeds 60% of such amounts determined for all employees, calculated as of the determination date, using the most recent Valuation Date within the twelve (12) month period on the Determination Date.

(g) “Top Heavy Plan” means each Plan of the Company or Companies required to be included in an Aggregation Group, if the Aggregation Group is a Top Heavy Group.

Section 11.02 - Top Heavy Special Rules

For purposes of determining whether a Top Heavy Group exists, the following special rules shall apply:

(a) Benefits derived from voluntary or mandatory Participant contributions and Employer contributions shall be taken into account.

(b) The aggregate of distributions made to any Participant from the Plan or any plans in the Aggregation Group, during the five (5) year period ending on the Determination Date shall be taken into account in determining the present value of cumulative accrued benefits of any Participant or the account of any Participant under any such plan.

(c) If a Participant who was a Key Employee ceases to be a Key Employee for a Plan Year, the cumulative accrued benefit or Account of such Participant will not be taken into account for determining whether a Top Heavy Group exists for such Plan Year.

(d) Rollover contributions initiated by an Employee and made to the Plan after December 31, 1983, shall not be taken into account.

(e) The Account of a Participant who has not performed services for the Company during the five (5) year period ending on the determination date shall not be taken into account.

Section 11.03 - Top Heavy Provisions

For limitation years commencing on and after January 1, 2000, if the Plan is a Top Heavy Plan for any Plan Year, then with respect to such Plan Year and all subsequent Plan Years, the following provisions shall apply:

(a) Each Participant who has completed three (3) or more Years of Service with the Company shall be fully Vested in his Account.

(b) A Participant who is not a Key Employee shall accrue a minimum Company contribution equal to the lesser of 3% of the Participant’s Compensation or the highest percentage of Compensation at which contributions are allocated or required to be allocated under the Plan for any Key Employee. Non-Key Employees who have become Participants but who subsequently fail to complete one thousand (1,000) hours of service for a Plan Year must receive the minimum benefit. A Non-Key Employee may not fail to receive the minimum benefit because of a failure to authorize a deduction from Compensation under Section 2.01(b). Elective Deferrals made under Section 2.01 by any Key Employees are taken into account in determining the required minimum contribution hereunder, but Elective Deferrals by Non-Key Employees are not counted as a Company contribution for purposes of determining whether the required Company contributions hereunder has been satisfied.

Section 11.04 - Modification of Top-heavy Rules

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Article XI to the contrary, this Section shall apply for purposes of determining whether the Plan is a top-heavy Plan under Section 416(g) of the Code for Plan Years beginning after November 30, 2002, and whether the Plan satisfies the minimum benefits requirements of Section 416(c) of the Code for such years.

(a) Determination of top-heavy status.

(i) Determination of present values and amounts. This subsection (i) shall apply for purposes of determining the present values of accrued benefits and the amounts of account balances of Employees as of the determination date.

a. Distributions during year ending on the determination date. The present values of accrued benefits and the amounts of account balances of an Employee as of the determination date shall be increased by the distributions made with respect to the Employee under the Plan and any Plan aggregated with the Plan under Section 416(g)(2) of the Code during the 1-year period ending on the determination date. The preceding sentence shall also apply to distributions under a terminated Plan which, had it not been terminated, would have been aggregated with the Plan under Section 416(g)(2)(A)(I) of the Code. In the case of a distribution made for a reason other than separation from service, death, or disability, this provision shall be applied by substituting “5-year period” for “1-year period.”

b. Employees not performing services during year ending on the determination date. The accrued benefits and accounts of any

individual who has not performed services for the Company during the 1-year period ending on the determination date shall not be taken into account.

(b) Minimum benefits.

(i) Company matching contributions shall be taken into account for purposes of satisfying the minimum contribution requirements of Section 416(c)(2) of the Code and the Plan. The preceding sentence shall apply with respect to matching contributions under the Plan or, if the Plan provides that the minimum contribution requirement shall be met in another Plan, such other Plan. Company matching contributions that are used to satisfy the minimum contribution requirements shall be treated as matching contributions for purposes of the actual contribution percentage test and other requirements of Section 401(m) of the Code.

(ii) In the event this Plan is a Top Heavy Plan, to the extent necessary, the minimum benefit requirement shall be met in this Plan.

ARTICLE XII

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 12.01 - Proof of Identity of Recipient

The right of any person to receive a payment under the Plan shall be conditioned on the Trustee or the Administrator first being furnished by such person with such documentary evidence (such as proof of death) as the Trustee or Administrator considers necessary for the purpose of administering the Plan.

Section 12.02 - Limitation on Source of Benefit Payment

All benefits payable hereunder shall be provided solely from the Trust, and the Companies and the Administrator assume no responsibility for the acts of the Trustee or Investment Managers, except as provided in the Trust Agreement.

Section 12.03 - Payment Conditioned Upon Release of Claims

Any payment to any Participant or his Beneficiary in accordance with the provisions of this Plan shall, to the extent thereof, be in full satisfaction of all claims against the Trustee, the Administrator and the Companies, and the Trustee may require such Participant or Beneficiary, as a condition precedent to such payment, to execute a receipt and release to such effect.

Section 12.04 - Rollover, Direct Transfers, Spin Offs and Elective Transfers

(a) The Trustee is hereby authorized, upon the approval of the Administrator, to accept only cash from, or on behalf of, any Employee who is, or who is expected to become, a Participant in the Plan:

(i) Prior to January 1, 2002, as a rollover contribution, the amount distributed directly to the Employee from a plan qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code which satisfies the requirements of Section 402(c)(4) of the Code;

(ii) Effective January 1, 2002, as a rollover contribution, the amount distributed directly to the Employee from:

a. a trustee of a qualified plan described in Section 401(a) of the Code;

b. an annuity contract described in Section 403(b) of the Code; or

c. an eligible plan under Section 457(b) of the Code which is maintained by a state, political subdivision of a state, or any agency or instrumentality of a state or political subdivision of a state;

(iii) Effective January 1, 1993, as a direct transfer, the amount transferred directly from a trustee of a plan qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code, and effective January 1, 2002, the amount transferred directly from:

a. a plan qualified under Section 401(a) or 403(a) of the Code which satisfies the requirements of Section 402(c)(4) of the Code, including after-tax employee contributions which after-tax contributions shall be maintained in a separate account;

b. an annuity contract described in Section 403(b) of the Code, excluding after-tax employee contributions; or

c. an eligible plan under Section 457(b) of the Code which is maintained by a state, political subdivision of a state, or any agency or instrumentality of a state or political subdivision of a state.

which represents an eligible rollover distribution under Section 401(a)(31)(D) of the Code that is payable to such Employee from such plan or contract and that would otherwise be includable in gross income if not directly transferred to the Trustee (except for any after-tax amounts received in accordance with a.); provided, however, the Trustee will not accept any direct transfer from any qualified plan that is described in Section 401(a)(11)(B) of the Code which would require the Plan to

distribute benefits in the form of a qualified joint and survivor annuity or a qualified pre-retirement survivor annuity; and

(iv) Effective January 1, 2002, as a rollover contribution the portion of a distribution from an individual retirement account or annuity described in Section 408(a) or 408(b) of the Code that is eligible to be rolled over and would otherwise be includible in gross income.

The Trustee shall not accept any rollover contributions or direct transfers which are not allowed by law. In advising the Trustee to accept any such amounts, the Administrator shall take such steps as it deems necessary to satisfy itself that any rollover contributions or direct transfers satisfy all of the applicable requirements of the Code. Upon acceptance of such a rollover contribution or a direct transfer by the Trustee, the amount shall be maintained as a portion of the Employee’s Account, invested in the same manner as Company contributions under Section 3.01-A, and shall be, at all times, Vested. Distributions from the Employee’s Account shall be made at such times as determined under the terms of the Plan and in the manner and subject to the limitations set forth herein.

(b) This paragraph applies to distributions made on or after January 1, 1993. Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the contrary that would otherwise limit a Distributee’s election under this paragraph, a Distributee may elect, at the time and in the manner prescribed by the Administrator, to have any portion of an Eligible Rollover Distribution paid directly to an Eligible Retirement Plan specified by the Distributee in a Direct Rollover.

(i) An Eligible Rollover Distribution is any distribution of all or any portion of the balance to the credit of the Distributee, except that an Eligible Rollover Distribution does not include: any distribution that is one of a series of substantially equal periodic payments (not less frequently than annually), made for the life (or life expectancy) of the Distributee or the joint lives (or joint life expectancies) of the Distributee and the Distributee’s designated beneficiary, or for a specified period of ten years or more; any distribution to the extent such distribution is required under Section 401(a)(9) of the Code; the portion of any distribution that is not includable in gross income (determined without regard to the exclusion for net unrealized appreciation with respect to employer securities); and effective January 1, 2000, any hardship withdrawals of Elective Deferrals under Section 5.08.

(ii) An Eligible Retirement Plan is an individual retirement account described in Section 408(a) of the Code, an individual retirement annuity described in Section 408(b) of the Code, an annuity plan described in Section 403(a) of the Code, or a qualified trust described in Section 401(a) of the Code, that accepts the Distributee’s Eligible Rollover Distribution. However, in the case of an Eligible

Rollover Distribution to the surviving spouse, an Eligible Retirement Plan is an individual retirement account or individual retirement annuity.

(iii) A Distributee includes an Employee or former Employee. In addition, the Employee’s or former Employee’s surviving spouse and the employee’s or former employee’s spouse or former spouse who is the alternate payee under a qualified domestic relations order, as defined in Section 414(p) of the Code, are Distributees with regard to the interest of the spouse or former spouse.

(iv) A Direct Rollover is a payment by the Plan to the Eligible Retirement Plan specified by the Distributee.

(v) Effective for distributions on or after January 1, 2002:

a. an Eligible Retirement Plan shall also mean an annuity contract described in section 403(b) of the Code and an eligible plan under section 457(b) of the Code which is maintained by a state, political subdivision of a state, or any agency or instrumentality of a state or political subdivision of a state and which agrees to separately account for amounts transferred into such plan from this plan. The definition of Eligible Retirement Plan shall also apply in the case of a distribution to a surviving spouse, or to a spouse or former spouse who is the alternate payee under a qualified domestic relation order, as defined in section 414(p) of the Code.

b. any amount that is distributed on account of hardship shall not be an Eligible Rollover Distribution and the distributee may not elect to have any portion of such a distribution paid directly to an Eligible Retirement Plan.

c. a portion of a distribution shall not fail to be an Eligible Rollover Distribution merely because the portion consists of after-tax employee contributions which are not includible in gross income. However, such portion may be transferred only to an individual retirement account or annuity described in section 408(a) or (b) of the Code, or to a qualified defined contribution plan described in section 401(a) or 403(a) of the Code that agrees to separately account for amounts so transferred, including separately accounting for the portion of such distribution which is includible in gross income and the portion of such distribution which is not so includible.

(d) In order to facilitate the administration of Participant loans for Employees who transfer between members of the controlled group with DIRECTV or from this Plan to the Savings Plus Plan, the Trustee is hereby authorized, upon the approval of the Administrator, to spin off to, or to accept a spin off from, any other defined contribution plan sponsored by DIRECTV of the benefit of such transferred Employee.

(e) In order to facilitate the spin off of HE Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries (“Holdings”) and the subsequent merger of Raytheon Company into Holdings (the “Spin Off-Merger”), each employee of Holdings at the time of the Spin Off-Merger who is a Participant:

(i) May elect, for the Valuation Date of the first full month following the completion of the Spin Off-Merger and ending with the Valuation Date of the fifth full month following such Spin Off-Merger, (or during such other election periods as may be determined by DIRECTV) to authorize the Trustee to transfer the Participant’s Benefit to another qualified defined contribution plan maintained by Raytheon as provided by Section 1.411(d)-4 Q&A-3(b) of the regulations; or

(ii) May elect no later than the end of the second calendar year following the year in which the Spin Off-Merger occurs to receive a lump sum distribution of the Participant’s Benefit that may be distributed either to the Participant or as a Direct Rollover in accordance with paragraph (b).

(f) Upon the approval of DIRECTV, the Trustee is hereby authorized to spin off and transfer the Account and liabilities with respect hereto of any Participant in accordance with Section 12.06(b).

Section 12.05 - Payments to Minors and Incompetents; Forfeiture of Benefits of Missing Participants

(a) In the event any amount becomes payable under the Plan to a minor or a person who, in the sole judgment of the Administrator, is considered by reason of physical or mental condition to be unable to give a valid receipt therefor, the Administrator may direct that such payment be made to any person found by the Administrator, in its sole judgment, to have assumed the care of such minor or other person. Any payment made pursuant to such determination shall constitute a full release and discharge of the Trustee, the Administrator and the Companies and their officers, directors, employees, agents and representatives.

(b) The Administrator of the Plan shall declare a forfeiture of any Account of any Participant or Beneficiary under the Plan who cannot be found within one (1) year after the Account would have otherwise been payable under the Plan. Any amounts forfeited shall be used as provided in Section 5.07. In the event such Participant or Beneficiary is thereafter located, such previously forfeited Account shall be restored from forfeitures, if any, or by the Company, and shall be paid by the Plan in accordance with the terms hereof.

Section 12.06 - Merger of Plan

(a) In the event of the consolidation or merger of a Company with or into any other business entity, or the sale by a Company of its assets, the Plan shall be terminated in accordance with Section 10.01 with respect to that Company.

(b) The Plan shall not be merged or consolidated with any other plan, nor shall its assets or liabilities be transferred to any other plan, unless each Participant in this Plan would have immediately after the merger, consolidation or transfer (if the plan in question were then terminated) accounts which are equal to or greater in amount than his Account under this Plan as such Account existed immediately before the merger, consolidation or transfer.

Section 12.07 - Named Fiduciaries

(a) The Administrator and DIRECTV shall be named fiduciaries within the meaning of ERISA and, as permitted or required by law, shall have exclusive authority and discretion to control and manage the operation and administration of the Plan within the limits set forth in the Trust Agreement, subject to proper delegation, and shall have the discretionary authority to determine eligibility for benefits and to construe the terms of the Plan.

(b) Such named fiduciaries, each Investment Manager and every person who exercises any discretionary authority or discretionary control respecting management of the Trust Fund or Plan, or exercises any authority or control respecting the management or disposition of the assets of the Trust Fund or Plan, or renders investment advice for compensation, direct or indirect, with respect to any moneys or other property of the Trust Fund or Plan or has authority or responsibility to do so, or has any discretionary authority or discretionary responsibility in the administration of the Plan, and any person designated by a named fiduciary to carry out fiduciary responsibilities under the Plan, shall be fiduciaries and, as such, shall be subject to provisions of the Plan, the Trust Agreement, ERISA and other applicable laws governing fiduciaries. Any person may act in more than one fiduciary capacity.

Section 12.08 - Allocation of Fiduciary Responsibilities

(a) Fiduciary responsibilities under the Plan are allocated as follows:

(i) the sole power and discretion to manage and control the Plan’s assets, including, but not limited to, the power to acquire and dispose of Plan assets, is allocated to the Trustee, except to the extent that another fiduciary is appointed with the power to control or manage (including the power to acquire and dispose of) assets of the Plan.

(ii) the sole duties, responsibilities and powers allocated to the Companies and the boards of directors of the Companies shall be those expressed in the Plan or the Trust Agreement.

(iii) all fiduciary responsibilities not allocated to the Trustee, the board of directors of any Company, the Companies, or any Investment Manager or

other person or persons granted investment powers are hereby allocated to the Administrator, subject to delegation in accordance with Section 9.01.

(b) Fiduciary responsibilities under the Plan (other than the power to manage or control the Plan’s assets) may be reallocated among fiduciaries by amending the Plan in the manner prescribed in Section 10.02, followed by such fiduciaries’ acceptance of, or operation under, such amended Plan.

(c) Each Participant is responsible for allocating the Participant’s Account among the Investment Options. This Plan is intended to constitute a plan described in Section 404(c) of ERISA and the regulations thereunder, 29 C.F.R. Section 2550.404(c)-1. As a result, to the fullest extent permitted by law, no person who is otherwise a fiduciary under the Plan shall be liable for any loss, or by reason of any breach, which results from the exercise of control by a Participant over the assets in the Participants Accounts. To the extent Section 404(c) of ERISA and the regulations thereunder apply, the Participant shall not be deemed a fiduciary as a result of the exercise of control by the Participant over the assets in the Participant’s Account.

Section 12.09 - Copying and Inspection of Plan Documents

Copies of the Plan and any other documents and records which a Participant is entitled by law to inspect shall be open to inspection by such Participant or such Participant’s duly authorized representatives at the principal office of DIRECTV at any reasonable business hour.

Section 12.10 - No Express or Implied Employment Contract

The Plan is strictly a voluntary undertaking on the part of the Companies and shall not constitute a contract between the Companies and any Employee, or consideration for, or an inducement or condition of, the employment of an Employee. Except as otherwise required by law, nothing contained in the Plan shall give any Employee the right to be retained in the service of the Companies or to interfere with or restrict the right of the Companies, which is hereby expressly reserved, to discharge or retire any Employee at any time, with or without cause. Except as otherwise required by law, inclusion under the Plan will not give any Employee any right or claim to any benefit hereunder except to the extent such right has specifically become fixed under the terms of the Plan and there are funds available therefor in the hands of the Trustee. The doctrine of substantial performance shall have no application to Employees or Participants. Each condition and provision, including numerical items, has been carefully considered and constitutes the minimum limit on performance which will give rise to the applicable right.

Section 12.11 - Service of Legal Process

The Secretary of DIRECTV is hereby designated as agent of the Plan for the service of process upon the Plan.

Section 12.12 - Statement to Participants

As soon as practicable after the close of each Plan Year, the Administrator shall furnish to each Participant a statement setting forth his Account and such other information as the Administrator shall deem it advisable to furnish.

Section 12.13 - Errors, Misstatements, and Payment of Interest

In the event of any misstatement, error, or omission of fact resulting in payment of benefits in an incorrect amount, the Administrator shall promptly cause the amount of future payments to be corrected upon discovery of the facts, and shall pay, or authorize others to pay, the Participant or his Beneficiary any underpayment, in cash in a lump sum, or to recoup, or authorize others to recoup, any overpayment from future payments to the Participant or his Beneficiary in such amounts as the Administrator shall direct, or to proceed, or authorize others to proceed, against the Participant or his Beneficiary for recovery of any such overpayment. Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, no interest shall be paid on the payment of any corrected amounts or on any late or estimated payments.

Section 12.14 - Adoption of Plan By Companies

The Companies adopting the Plan are identified on the signature page hereof. Any Company, with the approval of DIRECTV, adopt the Plan as to the whole Company or as to any one or more divisions effective as of the first day of any Plan Year or any other date by resolution of its own board of directors or applicable authorized person and may, notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan to the contrary but subject to the approval of DIRECTV, modify the definitions of Compensation and Eligible Employee with respect to past service of some or all employees of such adopting Company or to determine to credit (or not to credit) Anniversary Date, Continuous Service or Year of Service under this Plan, subject to the approval of DIRECTV and upon such terms and limitations as DIRECTV determines and as evidenced by any Exhibits attached hereto.

Section 12.15 - Governing Law

The Plan and Trust shall be interpreted, administered and enforced in accordance with the Code and ERISA, and the rights of Participants, former Participants, Beneficiaries and all other persons shall be determined in accordance therewith; provided, however, that, to the extent that state law is applicable, the laws of the State of California shall apply.

Section 12.16 - Pronouns

The masculine pronoun shall include the feminine pronoun and the singular shall include the plural where the context so indicates.

Section 12.17 - Effect of Titles

Titles are provided herein for convenience only and are not to serve as a basis for interpretation or construction of the Plan or Trust Agreement.

ARTICLE XIII

MINIMUM DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENTS

Section 13.01 - General Rules

The provisions of this Article will apply for purposes of determining required minimum distributions for calendar years beginning on and after January 1, 2003. The requirements of this Article will take precedence over any inconsistent provisions of the Plan. All distributions required under this Article will be determined and made in accordance with the Treasury regulations under Section 401(a)(9) of the Code.

Section 13.02 - Time and Manner of Distribution

(a) Required Beginning Date. The entire interest of a Participant will be distributed, or begin to be distributed, to the Participant no later than the Participant’s Required Beginning Date.

(b) Death of Participant Before Distributions Begin. If a Participant dies before distributions begin, the Participant’s entire interest will be distributed, or begin to be distributed, no later than as follows:

(i) If the Participant’s surviving spouse is the Participant’s sole Designated Beneficiary then distributions to the surviving spouse will begin by December 31 of the calendar year immediately following the calendar year in which the Participant died, or by December 31 of the calendar year in which the Participant would have attained age 70-1/2, if later.

(ii) If the Participant’s surviving spouse is not the Participant’s sole Designated Beneficiary, then distributions to the Designated Beneficiary will begin by December 31 of the calendar year immediately following the calendar year in which the Participant died; or if elected by the Designated Beneficiary, distribution of the Participant’s entire interest will be completed by December 31 of the calendar year containing the fifth anniversary of the Participant’s death.

(iii) If there is no Designated Beneficiary as of September 30 of the year following the year of the Participant’s death, the Participant’s entire interest will be distributed by December 31 of the calendar year containing the fifth anniversary of the Participant’s death.

(iv) If the Participant’s surviving spouse is the Participant’s sole Designated Beneficiary and the surviving spouse dies after the Participant but before distributions to the surviving spouse begin, this Section 13.02(b), other than Section 13.02(b)(i), will apply as if the surviving spouse were the Participant .

For purposes of this Section 13.02 and Section 13.04, unless Section 13.02(b)(iv) applies, distributions are considered to begin on the Participant’s Required Beginning Date. If Section 13.02(b)(iv) applies, distributions are considered to begin on the date distributions are required to begin to the surviving spouse under Section 13.02(b)(i).

(c) Unless the Participant’s interest is distributed in the form of an annuity purchased from an insurance company or in a single sum on or before the Required Beginning Date, as of the first Distribution Calendar Year distributions will be made in accordance with Sections 13.03 and 13.04 of this Article.

Section 13.03 - Required Minimum Distributions During Participant’s Lifetime

(a) During the Participant’s lifetime, the minimum amount that will be distributed for each Distribution Calendar Year is the lesser of:

(i) the quotient obtained by dividing the Participant’s Account Balance by the distribution period in the Uniform Lifetime Table set forth in Section 1.401(a)(9)-9 of the Treasury regulations, using the Participant’s age as of the Participant’s birthday in the Distribution Calendar Year; or

(ii) if the Participant’s sole Designated Beneficiary for the Distribution Calendar Year is the Participant’s spouse, the quotient obtained by dividing the Participant’s Account Balance by the number in the Joint and Last Survivor Table set forth in Section 1.401(a)(9)-9 of the Treasury regulations, using the Participant’s and spouse’s attained ages as of the Participant’s and spouse’s birthdays in the Distribution Calendar Year.

(b) Required minimum distributions will be determined under this Section 13.03 beginning with the first Distribution Calendar Year and up to and including the Distribution Calendar Year that includes the Participant’s date of death

Section 13.04 - Required Minimum Distributions After Participant’s Death

(a) Death On or After Date Distributions Begin.

(i) Participant Survived by Designated Beneficiary. If the Participant dies on or after the date distributions begin and there is a Designated Beneficiary, the minimum amount that will be distributed for each Distribution Calendar Year after the year of the Participant’s death is the quotient obtained by dividing the Participant’s Account Balance by the longer of the remaining Life

Expectancy of the Participant or the remaining Life Expectancy of the Participant’s Designated Beneficiary, determined as follows:

(1) The Participant’s remaining Life Expectancy is calculated using the age of the Participant in the year of death, reduced by one for each subsequent year.

(2) If the Participant’s surviving spouse is the Participant’s sole Designated Beneficiary, the remaining Life Expectancy of the surviving spouse is calculated for each Distribution Calendar Year after the year of the Participant’s death using the surviving spouse’s age as of the spouse’s birthday in that year. For Distribution Calendar Years after the year of the surviving spouse’s death, the remaining Life Expectancy of the surviving spouse is calculated using the age of the surviving spouse as of the spouse’s birthday in the calendar year of the spouse’s death, reduced by one for each subsequent calendar year.

(3) If the Participant’s surviving spouse is not the Participant’s sole Designated Beneficiary, the Designated Beneficiary’s remaining Life Expectancy is calculated using the age of the beneficiary in the year following the year of the Participant’s death, reduced by one for each subsequent year.

(ii) No Designated Beneficiary. If the Participant dies on or after the date distributions begin and there is no Designated Beneficiary as of September 30 of the year after the year of the Participant’s death, the minimum amount that will be distributed for each Distribution Calendar Year after the year of the Participant’s death is the quotient obtained by dividing the Participant’s Account Balance by the Participant’s remaining Life Expectancy calculated using the age of the Participant in the year of death, reduced by one for each subsequent year.

(b) Death Before Date Distributions Begin.

(i) Participant Survived by Designated Beneficiary. If the Participant dies before the date distributions begin and there is a Designated Beneficiary, the minimum amount that will be distributed for each Distribution Calendar Year after the year of the Participant’s death is the quotient obtained by dividing the Participant’s Account Balance by the remaining Life Expectancy of the Participant’s Designated Beneficiary, determined as provided in Section 13.04, or if elected by the Designated Beneficiary, distribution of the Participant’s entire interest will be completed by December 31 of the calendar year containing the fifth anniversary of the Participant’s death.

Participant’s entire interest will be completed by December 31 of the calendar year containing the fifth anniversary of the Participant’s death.

(iii) Death of Surviving Spouse Before Distributions to Surviving Spouse Are Required to Begin. If the Participant dies before the date distributions begin, and if the Participant’s surviving spouse is the Participant’s sole Designated Beneficiary, and the surviving spouse dies before distributions are required to begin to the surviving spouse under Section 13.02(b)(i), this Section 13.04(b) will apply as if the surviving spouse were the Participant.

Section 13.05 - Definitions

(a) A “Designated Beneficiary” means any individual who is designated as the beneficiary under Sections 1.05 and 7.03 of the Plan and is the Designated Beneficiary under Section 401(a)(9) of the Internal Revenue Code and Section 1.401(a)(9) 1, Q&A 4, of the Treasury regulations.

(b) A “Distribution Calendar Year” means calendar year for which a minimum distribution is required. For distributions beginning before the Participant’s death, the first Distribution Calendar Year is the calendar year immediately preceding the calendar year which contains the Participant’s Required Beginning Date. For distributions beginning after the Participant’s death, the first Distribution Calendar Year is the calendar year in which distributions are required to begin under Section 13.02. The required minimum distribution for the Participant’s first Distribution Calendar Year will be made on or before the Participant’s required beginning date. The required minimum distribution for other Distribution Calendar Years, including the required minimum distribution for the Distribution Calendar Year in which the Participant’s required beginning date occurs, will be made on or before December 31 of that Distribution Calendar Year.

(c) A “Life Expectancy” means the life expectancy as computed by use of the Single Life Table in Section 1.401(a)(9)-9 of the Treasury regulations.

(d) For purposes of the minimum distribution rules in this Article, A “Participant’s Account Balance” means the account balance as of the last valuation date in the calendar year immediately preceding the Distribution Calendar Year (valuation calendar year) increased by the amount of any contributions made and allocated or forfeitures allocated to the account balance as of dates in the valuation calendar year after the valuation date and decreased by distributions made in the valuation calendar year after the valuation date. The account balance for the valuation calendar year includes any amounts rolled over or transferred to the Plan either in the valuation calendar year or in the Distribution Calendar Year if distributed or transferred in the valuation calendar year.

(e) A “Required Beginning Date” means:

(i) for a Participant who is a 5% Owner, the April 1 following the calendar year in which the Participant attains age 70-1/2; and

(ii) for a Participant who is not a 5% Owner, the April 1 of the calendar year following the later of the calendar year in which the Participant attains age 70-1/2 or Separates from the Service.

(f) “5% Owner” means a Participant who is treated as a 5-percent owner for purposes of Section 416 of the Code at any time during the Plan Year ending with or within the calendar year in which such owner attains age 70-1/2.

Executed at Los Angeles, California, this 15th day of September, 2004.

	THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.


	By	/s/ Leigh Anne Nanci
		Leigh Anne Nanci,
		Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Employee Communications


	By	/s/ Bruce B. Churchill
		Bruce B. Churchill,
		Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President

EXHIBIT A

DIRECTV

THRIFT AND SAVINGS PLAN

Effective September 1, 2004, Companies which have adopted this Plan are listed below:

The DIRECTV Group, Inc.

DIRECTV, Inc.

DIRECTV Enterprises, LLC

DIRECTV Operations, LLC

Hughes Electronics International Corporation

Hughes Network Systems, Inc.

HEC Services Company

FIRST AMENDMENT TO

THE DIRECTV THRIFT AND SAVINGS PLAN

This First Amendment to the DIRECTV Thrift and Savings Plan is executed by THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC., a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware (hereinafter “Company” or “DTV”). This First Amendment, together with the Plan executed on the 15th day of September 2004, constitute the entire Plan. Except as otherwise provided, the effective date of this First Amendment is January 1, 2007.

1. Section 3.01(e) shall be deleted in its entirety and the following substituted in its place:

(e) Effective June 1, 1998, the Company contribution under paragraphs (c)(i) and (d) shall be either Class H Common Stock prior to December 22, 2003, and thereafter DIRECTV Common Stock, or cash that will be invested in the Class H Common Stock Fund prior to December 22, 2003, and thereafter in the DIRECTV Common Stock Fund. On and after June 1, 1998, the number of Units of the Class H Common Stock Fund acquired with Company contributions under paragraphs (c)(i) and (d) shall be allocated to the Participant’s account by the Trustee. On and after December 22, 2003 and until the first payroll period ending on or after January 1, 2007, the number of Units of the DIRECTV Common Stock Fund acquired with Company contributions under paragraphs (c) (i) and (d) shall be allocated to the Participant’s account by the Trustee. Such Company Matching Contribution under paragraph (c)(i) shall remain invested in the Class H Common Stock Fund and the DIRECTV Common Stock Fund until the earlier of the end of the two (2) full Plan Years following the Plan Year of such contributions or deferrals or such other date as may be determined by DIRECTV. Effective for payroll periods ending on or after January 1, 2007, the Company contribution under paragraphs (c)(i) and (d) shall be in cash and allocated among one or more Investment Options pursuant to a Participant Direction as provided in Section 3.01-A(b). If the Participant fails to elect an Investment Option as provided herein, the Participant shall be deemed to have elected the DIRECTV Fixed Income Fund as the Investment Option. Income from, and gains on, investment in each Fund shall be reinvested in such Fund.

Executed at Los Angeles, California, this 29th day of November, 2006.

THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.


By	/s/ Chase Carey
			Chase Carey,
			President and Chief Executive Officer


By	/s/ Michael Palkovic
		Michael Palkovic,
		Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

APPROVED:

By	/s/ Larry D. Hunter
	Larry D. Hunter
	Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

SECOND AMENDMENT TO

THE DIRECTV THRIFT AND SAVINGS PLAN

This Second Amendment to the DIRECTV Thrift and Savings Plan is executed by THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC., a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware (hereinafter “Company” or “DTV”). This Second Amendment, together with the First Amendment executed on the 29th day of November 2006 and the Plan executed on the 15th day of September 2004, constitutes the entire Plan. Except as otherwise provided, the effective date of this Second Amendment is December 1, 2006.

1. Section 1.15(a) shall be deleted in its entirety and the following substituted in its place:

2. Section 2.01(d)(ii) shall be deleted in its entirety and the following substituted in its place:

(ii) specify pursuant to Section 3.01-A the Investment Option (but not the Raytheon Stock Fund or the News Corp. Stock Fund) under which the Employee’s contributions or deferrals are to be initially invested;

3. Section 2.01(e) shall be deleted in its entirety and the following substituted in its place:

(e) For Employees hired on and after December 1, 1999, and rehired Employees reemployed on and after January 1, 2008, participation shall be effective on the Entry Date occurring after becoming an Eligible Employee and for the payroll period beginning on or after such Entry Date. Unless the Administrator receives a Participant Direction to the contrary, such Eligible Employee shall be deemed to have made a Participant Direction, which shall:

(i) authorize a deferral of 2% of his Compensation commencing December 1, 1999, and 4% of his Compensation on and after January 1, 2001, in accordance with paragraph (b) of this Section;

(ii) specify pursuant to Section 3.01-A that the Investment Option under which the Employee’s deferrals are to be initially invested shall be the DIRECTV Fixed Income Fund, and on and after January 1, 2008 (or as soon thereafter as administratively feasible) shall be initially invested in one of the Fidelity Freedom Funds based on the Participant’s current age with retirement at Normal Retirement Age; and

4. Section 2.07(c)(iv) shall be deleted in its entirety and the following substituted in its place:

(iv) “Elective Deferrals” means contributions authorized by the Employee and paid by the Company under Section 2.01(b) that relates to Compensation that would have been received by the Employee, but for the deferral during the Plan Year; provided, however, such contributions will be treated as Elective Deferrals only if the contributions are made after the Employee’s deferral election is made (or deemed made in the event of automatic enrollment) and after the Employee performs the services with respect to which the contributions are made.

5. Section 2.08(b)(iii) shall be deleted in its entirety and the following substituted in its place:

(iii) the income allocable to the Excess Elective Deferrals shall include the income for the Plan Year for which the Excess Elective Deferrals were made (including the income for the period between the end of the Plan Year and the date of distribution (or forfeiture)), and shall be determined at the discretion of the Administrator by either multiplying income allocable to the Participant’s Elective Deferrals for the Plan Year by a fraction, the numerator of which is the Excess Elective Deferrals on behalf of the Participant for the preceding Plan Year and the denominator of which is the amount of the Participant’s Account attributable to Elective Deferrals on the last day of the preceding Plan Year, or by any other reasonable method, provided that such method is used consistently for all Participants for that Plan Year; and

6. Section 2.08(c)(ii) shall be deleted in its entirety and the following substituted in its place:

(ii) if Qualified Nonelective Contributions still remain after step (i) above, the second allocation shall be made to the Non-Highly Compensated Employee with the next lowest Compensation for the Plan Year, and subsequent allocation shall similarly be made to the Non-Highly Compensated Employee with the next lowest Compensation and so on until Qualified Elective Contributions have been fully allocated; provided, however, Qualified Nonelective Contributions cannot be taken into account for a Plan Year for a Non-Highly Compensated Employee to the extent such contributions exceed the product of that Non-Highly Compensated Employee’s Compensation and the greater of five percent (5%) or two (2) times the Plan’s representative contribution rate. Any Qualified Nonelective Contribution taken into account under the Average Contribution Percentage Test under Treas. Reg. 1.401(m)-2(a)(6) (including the determination of the representative contribution rate for purposes of Treas. Reg. 1.401(m)-2(a)(6)(v)(B) is not permitted to be taken into account for purposes of this paragraph (including the determination of the representative contribution rate under paragraph (A) of this section).

a. For purposes of paragraph (ii), the Plan’s representative contribution rate is the lowest applicable contribution rate of any eligible Non-Highly Compensated Employee among a group of eligible Non-Highly Compensated Employees that consists of half of all eligible Non-Highly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year (or, if greater, the lowest applicable contribution rate of any eligible Non-Highly Compensated Employee in the group of all eligible Non-Highly Compensated Employees for

the Plan Year and who is employed by the Company on the last day of the Plan Year).

b. For purposes of this paragraph (ii), the applicable contribution rate for an eligible Non-Highly Compensated Employee is the Qualified Nonelective Contributions made for the eligible Non-Highly Compensated Employee for the Plan Year, divided by the eligible Non-Highly Compensated Employee’s Compensation for the same period.

7. Section 2.10(b)(iii) shall be deleted in its entirety and the following substituted in its place:

(iii) the income allocable to Excess Aggregate Contributions shall include the income for the Plan Year for which the Excess Aggregate Contributions were made (including income for the period between the end of the Plan Year and the date of distribution (or forfeiture)), and shall be determined at the discretion of the Administrator by either multiplying the income allocable to the Participant’s Employee Contributions and Matching Contributions for the Plan Year by a fraction, the numerator of which is the Excess Aggregate Contributions on behalf of the Participant for the preceding Plan Year and the denominator of which is the amount of the Participant’s Account attributable to Employee Contributions and Matching Contributions on the last day of the preceding Plan Year, or by any other reasonable method, provided that such method is used consistently for all Participants for that Plan Year; and

8. Section 2.11(d) shall be deleted in its entirety and the following substituted in its place:

(d) The income allocable to Excess Deferral Amounts shall include the income for the Plan Year for which the Excess Deferral Amounts were made (including income for the period between the end of the Plan Year and the date of distribution (or forfeiture)), and shall be determined at the discretion of the Administrator by either multiplying the income allocable to the Participant’s Excess Deferral Amounts for the Plan Year by a fraction, the numerator of which is the Excess Deferral Amounts on behalf of the Participant for the preceding Plan Year and the denominator of which is the amount of the Participant’s Elective Deferrals on the last day of the preceding Plan Year, or by any other reasonable method, provided that such method is used consistently for all Participants for that Plan Year.

9. Section 3.01(e) shall be deleted in its entirety and the following substituted in its place:

(e) Effective June 1, 1998, the Company contribution under paragraphs (c)(i) and (d) shall be either Class H Common Stock prior to December 22, 2003, and

thereafter DIRECTV Common Stock, or cash that will be invested in the Class H Common Stock Fund prior to December 22, 2003, and thereafter in the DIRECTV Common Stock Fund. On and after June 1, 1998, the number of Units of the Class H Common Stock Fund acquired with Company contributions under paragraphs (c)(i) and (d) shall be allocated to the Participant’s account by the Trustee. On and after December 22, 2003 and until the first payroll period ending on or after January 1, 2007, the number of Units of the DIRECTV Common Stock Fund acquired with Company contributions under paragraphs (c) (i) and (d) shall be allocated to the Participant’s account by the Trustee. Effective for payroll periods ending on or after January 1, 2007, the Company contribution under paragraphs (c)(i) and (d) shall be in cash and allocated among one or more Investment Options pursuant to a Participant Direction as provided in Section 3.01-A(b). If the Participant fails to elect an Investment Option as provided herein, the Participant shall be deemed to have elected the DIRECTV Fixed Income Fund, and on and after January 1, 2008 (or as soon thereafter as administratively feasible) shall be deemed to have elected one of the Fidelity Freedom Funds based on the Participant’s current age with retirement at Normal Retirement Age as the Investment Option. Income from, and gains on, investment in each Fund shall be reinvested in such Fund.

10. Section 3.04(a) shall be deleted in its entirety and the following substituted in its place:

(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the total Annual Addition to a Participant’s Account for any year shall not exceed the lesser of 100% of the Participant’s Compensation for the year from the Company, or $45,000 (or such greater amount as may be permitted in accordance with regulations issued under Section 415(d)(1) of the Code). The limit of 100% of the Participant’s Compensation referred in the preceding sentence shall not apply to any contribution for medical benefits after separation from service (within the meaning of Section 401(h) or Section 419A(f)(2) of the Code) which is otherwise treated as an Annual Addition.

11. Sections 3.01-A (a) and (b) shall be deleted in their entirety and the following substituted in its place:

(a) The following Investment Options are currently available:

Option 1	-	DIRECTV Equity Fund

Option 2	-	DIRECTV Fixed Income Fund

Option 3	-	DIRECTV Common Stock Fund on or after December 22, 2003, and prior thereto, Class H Common Stock Fund

Option 4	-	DIRECTV Asset Allocation Fund

Option 5	-	Fidelity Mutual Funds

Option 6	-	News Corp. Stock Fund

(b) Except for the Raytheon Stock Fund and the News Corp. Stock Fund, contributions made to the Plan by the Company on behalf of such Participant shall be invested by the Trustee in one or more Investment Options as elected by a Participant pursuant to a Participant Direction. Contributions allocated to any such Investment Option must be designated by the Participant in whole percentage increments (with a minimum of 1%). If the Participant fails to elect an Investment Option as provided herein, the Participant shall be deemed to have elected the DIRECTV Fixed Income Fund, and on and after January 1, 2008 (or as soon thereafter as administratively feasible) shall be deemed to have elected one of the Fidelity Freedom Funds based on the Participant’s current age with retirement at Normal Retirement Age as the Investment Option, except as otherwise provided in this paragraph. If the Participant elects pursuant to a Participant Direction, Company Contributions under Section 3.01(b) and (c)(ii) shall be invested proportionately in each Investment Option as selected in this paragraph. Company contributions under Section 3.01(c)(i) shall remain invested in the Class H Common Stock Fund prior to December 22, 2003, and thereafter in the DIRECTV Common Stock Fund.

12. Section 5.03(b) shall be deleted in its entirety and the following substituted in its place:

(b) Except as provided in paragraphs (c) and (d), the portion of his Account which is not Vested shall be forfeited:

(ii) for a Participant whose Separation from the Service is processed by the Administrator on or after March 1, 1997 and prior to June 1, 1998,

as of the Valuation Date coinciding with or next following the date the Participant incurs five (5) consecutive Break in Service Years; and

(iii) for a Participant whose Separation from the Service is processed by the Administrator on or after June 1, 1998,

b. for a Participant who is partially Vested and who does not elect to receive a distribution of his Vested Benefit before incurring five (5) consecutive Break in Service Years, as of the Valuation Date coinciding with or next following the date the Participant incurs five (5) consecutive Break in Service Years.

13. Sections 5.03(d) and (e) shall be deleted in their entirety and the following substituted in its place:

(d) Elective Deferrals are always fully vested and nonforfeitable. The Plan shall disregard Elective Deferrals in applying the vesting provisions of the Plan to other contributions or benefits under Section 411(a)(2) of the Code. However, the Plan shall otherwise take a Participant’s Elective Deferrals into account in determining the Participant’s vested benefits under the Plan for purposes of determining whether a Participant has a nonforfeitable right to contributions under the Plan for purposes of forfeitures and for applying provisions permitting the repayment of distributions in order to have forfeited amounts restored.

(e) If the Dollar Balance of the Vested portion of his Account does not exceed $1,000 (or at a different cash out amount as may be determined by the Administrator in its sole discretion from time to time) (the “Maximum Cash Out Level”), payment of benefits at the Maximum Cash Out Level will be made (or for the Participant who is zero Vested, the entire Dollar Balance of his Account shall be deemed to have been made in a lump sum) as provided herein without the need of a Participant Direction. If the Dollar Balance of the Vested portion of the Participant’s Account exceeds the Maximum Cash Out Level, then the Participant must consent in writing to a distribution that commences prior to the date on which the Participant attains age sixty-five (65).

14. New Sections 5.09(i) and (j) shall be added to read as follows:

(i) During a Participant’s period of Military Service, the Participant with an outstanding loan balance may make, but shall not be required to make, monthly repayments, and the interest rate on any such loan shall not exceed 6% per annum, subject to the approval and in accordance with the rules of the Administrator.

(j) With respect to any Participant whose principal place of residence was located in the Katrina Hurricane Disaster Area and who has sustained an economic loss by reason of Hurricane Katrina as those terms are defined in the Katrina Emergency Relief Act of 2005 (“KETRA”):

(i) notwithstanding the provisions of Section 5.09 to the contrary, the $50,000 aggregate limit on loans shall be increased to $100,000; and the aggregate amount of a participant’s loans which is limited to fifty percent (50%) of the Participant’s Vested portion of the Dollar Balance of his Account is increased to one hundred percent (100%);

(ii) the requirements of ERISA with respect to adequate loan security are not enforced with respect to any participant loan from the date of enactment of KETRA to December 31, 2006;

(iii) in the case of an outstanding Participant loan from this Plan on or after the date of the loss by reason of Hurricane Katrina, the following will apply:

(a.) if the due date for any repayment with respect to such Participant loan occurs during the period beginning the date of the loss and ending on December 31, 2006, then such due date for any repayment shall be delayed for one (1) year, and such a delay shall not result in a deemed distribution of the Participant loan under the Plan; and

(b.) any subsequent repayments with respect to any such Participant loan shall be appropriately adjusted to reflect the delay in the due date for any repayment under (a.) and any interest accruing during such delay. After the 1-year period described in (a.), the Participant loan shall be repaid by amortizing the outstanding balance (including accrued interest) in substantially level installments over the remaining period of the participant loan.

15. Section 10.01 shall be deleted in its entirety and the following substituted in its place:

Section 10.01 - Termination or Partial Termination of Plan

(a) The Plan is intended as a permanent program, but DIRECTV shall have the right at any time to declare the Plan terminated or completely to discontinue contributions to the Plan at any time, as to all Companies, or with respect to any Company or any division, facility or functional operation of a Company. In the event of any termination or partial termination, the interest of each Participant with respect to whom the Plan is terminated in his Account shall become fully Vested. Except as otherwise required under Section 403(d)(1) of ERISA and paragraph (b), in the event of such termination, the Administrator shall direct the Trustee to liquidate the Trust Fund and distribute it, less a proportionate share of the expenses of termination, to the persons entitled thereto in proportion to their Account.

(b) A distribution may not be made under paragraph (a) if the Company establishes or maintains an alternative defined contribution plan. For purposes of the preceding sentence, the definition of the term “Company” is applied as of the date of Plan termination, and a plan is an alternative defined contribution plan only if it is a defined contribution plan that exists at any time during the period beginning on the date of plan termination and ending 12 months after distribution of all assets from the terminated plan. In addition, a defined contribution plan is not treated as an alternative defined contribution plan if it is an employee stock ownership plan as defined in section 4975(e)(7) or 409(a) of the Code, a simplified employee pension as defined in section 408(k) of the Code, a SIMPLE IRA plan as defined in section 408(p) of the Code, a plan or contract that satisfies the requirements of section 403(b) of the Code, or a plan that is described in section 457(b) or (f) of the Code.

(c) Failure of the Companies to make one (1) or more substantial contributions to the Plan for any period of three (3) consecutive Plan Years in each of which the Companies realized substantial current earnings, as shown on their financial reports, shall automatically become a complete discontinuance of contributions at the end of the third such consecutive Plan Year.

(d) In the event of complete discontinuance of contributions to the Plan, the Plan and Trust shall otherwise remain in full force and effect except that all Accounts shall thereupon become fully Vested.

16. The heading for Section 12.04 shall be deleted in its entirety and the following substituted in its place:

Section 12.04 -

Rollover, Direct Transfers, Spin Offs, Elective Transfers and Non-Spouse Beneficiary IRA Rollovers

17. A new Section 12.04(g) shall be added to read as follows:

(g) Effective for distributions occurring on or after September 4, 2007, and subject to the approval of the Administrator, a Designated Beneficiary (other than the Participant’s spouse) may establish an Individual Retirement Account and instruct the Trustee to transfer directly all or a portion of the death benefit distribution from this Plan which the Designated Beneficiary is entitled to receive, except for any amount that is subject to a required minimum distribution provisions of Sections 13.03, 13.04 and 13.05 and Section 401(a)(9) of the Code.

Executed at Los Angeles, California, this 29th day of November, 2007.

THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.


By		/s/ Chase Carey
			Chase Carey,
			President and Chief Executive Officer


By	/s/ Patrick T. Doyle
				Patrick T. Doyle,
				Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

APPROVED:

By	/s/ Larry D. Hunter
	Larry D. Hunter
	Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

THIRD AMENDMENT TO

THE DIRECTV THRIFT AND SAVINGS PLAN

This Third Amendment to the DIRECTV Thrift and Savings Plan is executed by THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC., a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware (hereinafter “Company” or “DTV”). This Third Amendment, together with the First Amendment executed on the 29th day of November 2006, the Second Amendment executed on the 29th day of November 2007 and the Plan executed on the 15th day of September 2004, constitutes the entire Plan. Except as otherwise provided, the effective date of this Third Amendment is December 1, 2007.

1. Sections 1.15(b)and (c) shall be deleted in their entirety and the following substituted in their place:

(b) “Compensation” as used in Sections 3.04 and 11.03 shall mean:

(i) a Participant’s wages, salaries, fees for professional service and other amounts received for personal services actually rendered in the course of employment with the Company (including, but not limited to, Elective Deferrals and any amounts contributed or deferred by the employer at the election of the Employee and which are not includable in the gross income of the Employee by reason of Sections 125(a), 132(f)(4), 402(e)(3), 402(h)(1)(B), 402(k), 403(b) or 457(b) of the Code), commissions paid salespersons, compensation for services on the basis of a percentage of profits, commissions on insurance premiums, tips and bonuses;

(iv) amounts described in Sections 104(a)(3), 105(a) and 105(h) of the Code, but only to the extent that these amounts are includable in the gross income of the Employee;

(v) amounts described in Section 105(d) of the Code, whether or not these amounts are excludable from the gross income of the Employee under that section;

(viii) the amount includable in the gross income of an Employee upon making the election described in Section 83(b) of the Code;

and provided further that:

(i) Company contributions (other than Elective Deferrals and any amount contributed or deferred by the employer at the election of the Employee and which are not includable in the gross income of the Employee by reason of Sections 125(a), 132(f)(4), 402(e)(3), 402(h)(1)(B), 402(k), 403(b) or 457(b) of the Code) made on behalf of an Employee to a simplified employee pension plan described in Section 408(k) of the Code are not considered as Compensation for the taxable year in which contributed to the extent such contributions are deductible by the Employee under Section 219(b)(7) of the Code. Additionally, any distributions from a plan of deferred compensation are not considered as Compensation regardless of whether such amounts are includable in the gross income of the Employee when distributed. However, any amounts received by an Employee pursuant to an unfunded non-qualified plan may be considered as Compensation in the year such amounts are includable in the gross income of the Employee;

(iii) amounts realized from the sale, exchange or other disposition of stock acquired under a qualified stock option; and

(iv) other amounts which receive special tax benefits, such as premiums for group term life insurance (but only to the extent that the premiums are not includable in the gross income of the Employee), or contributions made by the Company (whether or not under a salary reduction agreement) towards the purchase of an annuity contract described in Section 403(b) of the Code (whether or not the contributions are excludable from the gross income of the Employee).

2. Section 1.34 shall be deleted in its entirety and the following substituted in its place:

Section 1.34 - Fund

“Fund” means:

(i) the DIRECTV Common Stock Fund, the News Corp. Stock Fund, the DIRECTV Equity Fund, the DIRECTV Fixed Income Fund, the DIRECTV Asset Allocation Fund, the Fidelity Mutual Funds or such other fund or funds as the Committee in its sole discretion shall determine, as the context requires; and “Funds” means all or more than one of such funds, as the context requires.

3. Section 1.38 shall be deleted in its entirety and the following substituted in its place:

Section 1.38 - Investment Option

“Investment Option” means one of the options specified in Article III-A, or any other investment as may be determined by the Committee in its sole discretion from time to time.

4. Section 1.60(c) shall be deleted in its entirety and the following substituted in its place:

(i) Service with PanAmSat Corporation from May 16, 1997 and Service with DIRECTV Latin America will be treated as Service with a member of the Controlled Group;

(ii) effective January 1, 2004 and until Liberty Media Corp. (or a related entity) became the owner of the outstanding interest of DIRECTV owned by News Corporation, for any Employee who transfers directly from News Corporation Limited or any member of its Controlled Group to a Company with the Company’s approval, all Service with News Corporation Limited or any member of its Controlled Group before or after such effective date will be treated as Service with a member of the Controlled Group of the Company; and

(iii) effective January 1, 2009, for any Employee who is employed by 180 Connect, Inc. (“180 Connect”) at the time 180 Connect became a Controlled Group member, service with 180 Connect, including subsidiaries of 180 Connect, will be treated as Service with a member of the Controlled Group.

5. Section 2.07(x) shall be deleted in its entirety and the following substituted in its place:

(x) “Highly Compensated Employee” means an Employee described in Section 414(q) of the Code. A highly compensated active Employee includes any Employee who performs service for the Company during the determination year and who, during the look-back year: (i) received Compensation from the Company in excess of $80,000 (as adjusted pursuant to Section 415(d) of the Code; or (ii) were Employees who are 5% owners at any time during the look back year or determination year.

The determination of who is a Highly Compensated Employee will be made in accordance with Section 414(q) of the Code and the regulations thereunder. For purposes of determining whether an Employee is a Highly Compensated Employee, effective December 1, 2007, compensation shall mean as defined by Section 415(c)(3) of the Code without regard to Sections 125(a), 132(f)(4), 402(e)(3), 402(h)(1)(B), 402(k) or 457(b) of the Code.

6. Section 3.04(e) shall be deleted in its entirety and the following substituted in its place:

(e) If the Annual Addition to the Participant’s Account exceeds the limitations described herein, the aggregate of the Annual Addition to this Plan and the Annual Addition to any other defined contribution plan as described above shall be corrected as provided by Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System of the Internal Revenue Service, or such other correction method allowed by statute, regulations or the like.

7. Sections 3.01-A (a) shall be deleted in its entirety and the following substituted in its place:

(a) The following Investment Options are currently available:

Option 1	-	DIRECTV Equity Fund

Option 2	-	DIRECTV Fixed Income Fund

Option 3	-	DIRECTV Common Stock Fund

Option 4	-	DIRECTV Asset Allocation Fund

Option 5	-	Fidelity Mutual Funds

Option 6	-	News Corp. Stock Fund

8. Sections 3.01-A (b) and (c) shall be redesignated as Section 3.01-A(c) and (d) and a new Section 3.01-A shall be added to read as follows:

(b) Any Investment Option in paragraph (a) may be suspended, terminated, or changed as may be determined by the Committee in its sole discretion from time to time.

9. Sections 3.01-A (c) shall be deleted in its entirety and the following substituted in its place:

(c) Except for the News Corp. Stock Fund, contributions made to the Plan by the Company on behalf of such Participant shall be invested by the Trustee in one or more Investment Options as elected by a Participant pursuant to a Participant Direction. Contributions allocated to any such Investment Option must be designated by the Participant in whole percentage increments (with a minimum of 1%). If the Participant fails to elect an Investment Option as provided herein, the Participant shall be deemed to have elected on and after January 1, 2008 (or as soon thereafter as administratively feasible) one of the Fidelity Freedom Funds based on the Participant’s current age with retirement at Normal Retirement Age as the Investment Option (or such other Investment Option as may be determined by the Committee in its sole discretion from time to time), except as otherwise provided in this paragraph. If the Participant elects pursuant to a Participant Direction, Company Contributions under Section 3.01(b) and (c)(ii) shall be invested proportionately in each Investment Option as selected in this paragraph.

10. Exhibit A shall be deleted in its entirety and the following substituted in its place:

EXHIBIT A

DIRECTV

THRIFT AND SAVINGS PLAN

Effective January 1, 2008, Companies which have adopted this Plan are listed below:

The DIRECTV Group, Inc.

DIRECTV, Inc. (except the Non-Highly Compensated Employees of the DIRECTV Homes Services organization shall not be eligible to participate in the Plan, and the Highly Compensated Employees of the DIRECTV Homes Services organization shall not become eligible to participate in the Plan until January 1, 2009)

DIRECTV Enterprises, LLC

DIRECTV Operations, LLC

DTV Services Company, Inc.

DIRECTV Latin America

Executed at Los Angeles, California, this 26th day of November, 2008.

		THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.


		By	/s/ Chase Carey
			Chase Carey,
			President and Chief Executive Officer


		By	/s/ Patrick T. Doyle
			Patrick T. Doyle,
			Executive Vice President, Finance, and Chief Financial Officer


APPROVED:


By	/s/ Larry D. Hunter
	Larry D. Hunter
	Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

FOURTH AMENDMENT TO

THE DIRECTV THRIFT AND SAVINGS PLAN

This Fourth Amendment to the DIRECTV Thrift and Savings Plan is executed by THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC., a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware (hereinafter “Company” or “DTV”). This Fourth Amendment, together with the First Amendment executed on the 29th day of November 2006, the Second Amendment executed on the 29th day of November 2007, the Third Amendment executed on the 26th day of November 2008, and the Plan executed on the 15th day of September 2004, constitutes the entire Plan. Except as otherwise provided, the effective date of this Fourth Amendment is December 1, 2008.

1. Section 2.01(e)(ii) shall be deleted in its entirety and the following substituted in its place:

(ii) specify pursuant to Section 3.01-A that the Investment Option under which the Employee’s deferrals are to be initially invested shall be as determined by the Administrator from time to time; and

2. Section 5.09(b) shall be deleted in its entirety and the following substituted in its place:

(b) Any such loan (together with all other outstanding Participant loans, which loans may not exceed three (3)) shall be secured by 50% of the Participant’s Vested portion of his Account and shall bear interest at 1% over the Prime Rate as published by Reuters on the last Business Day of the month preceding the month in which the loan is made (or as otherwise may be determined by the Administrator from time to time).

Executed at Los Angeles, California, this 7th day of October, 2009.

	THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.


	By: ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE


	By	/s/ Patrick T. Doyle
		Patrick T. Doyle, Member
		Executive Vice President, Finance, and Chief Financial Officer


	By	/s/ Irene McKenna
		Irene McKenna, Member
		Vice President, Human Resources, Compensation, and Benefits


	By	/s/ T. Warren Jackson
		T. Warren Jackson, Member
		Vice President and Associate General Counsel

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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ARTICLE I		DEFINITIONS		1

	Section 1.01 -		General	1
	Section 1.02 -		Account	2
	Section 1.03 -		Administrator	2
	Section 1.04 -		Anniversary Date	2
	Section 1.05 -		Beneficiary	2
	Section 1.06 -		Board	2
	Section 1.07 -		Break in Service Year	2
	Section 1.08 -		Business Day	3
	Section 1.09 -		Class H Common Stock	3
	Section 1.10 -		Class H Common Stock Fund	3
	Section 1.11 -		Code	3
	Section 1.12 -		Combined Continuous Participation	4
	Section 1.13 -		Committee	4
	Section 1.14 -		Company or Companies	4
	Section 1.15 -		Compensation	4
	Section 1.16 -		Continuous Participation	7
	Section 1.17 -		Continuous Service	7
	Section 1.18 -		Controlled Group	7
	Section 1.19 -		Current Market Value of Class H Common Stock	8
	Section 1.20 -		Current Market Value of Raytheon Stock	8
	Section 1.21 -		Date of Partial Withdrawal	8
	Section 1.22 -		DIRECTV	8
	Section 1.23 -		DIRECTV Balanced Fund	8
	Section 1.24 -		DIRECTV Common Stock	9
	Section 1.25 -		DIRECTV Common Stock Fund	9
	Section 1.26 -		DIRECTV Equity Fund	9
	Section 1.27 -		DIRECTV Fixed Income Fund	9
	Section 1.28 -		Dollar Balance	9
	Section 1.29 -		Eligible Employee	10
	Section 1.30 -		Employee	11
	Section 1.31 -		Entry Date	11
	Section 1.32 -		ERISA	11
	Section 1.33 -		Fidelity Mutual Fund	11
	Section 1.34 -		Fund	11
	Section 1.35 -		Hours of Service	12
	Section 1.36 -		Hughes	12
	Section 1.37 -		Investment Manager	12
	Section 1.38 -		Investment Option	13

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	Section 1.39 -		Leased Employee	13
	Section 1.40 -		Military Service	13
	Section 1.41 -		Net Asset Value	14
	Section 1.42 -		News Corp. Stock	14
	Section 1.43 -		News Corp. Stock Fund	14
	Section 1.44 -		Normal Retirement Age	14
	Section 1.45 -		Participant	14
	Section 1.46 -		Participant Direction	14
	Section 1.47 -		Plan	14
	Section 1.48 -		Plan Year	15
	Section 1.49 -		Raytheon Stock	15
	Section 1.50 -		Raytheon Stock Fund	15
	Section 1.51 -		Retirement	15
	Section 1.52 -		Separation from the Service	15
	Section 1.53 -		Trust	16
	Section 1.54 -		Trust Agreement	16
	Section 1.55 -		Trustee	16
	Section 1.56 -		Trust Fund	16
	Section 1.57 -		Unit	16
	Section 1.58 -		Valuation Date	16
	Section 1.59 -		Vested	16
	Section 1.60 -		Year of Service	16

ARTICLE II		PARTICIPATION: PARTICIPANTS’ CONTRIBUTIONS		17

	Section 2.01 -		Percentage of Contribution	17
	Section 2.02 -		Change of Percentage	21
	Section 2.03 -		Payroll Deductions	21
	Section 2.04 -		Payment of Contribution	21
	Section 2.05 -		Suspension and Resumption of Contributions	21
	Section 2.06 -		Reemployment	21
	Section 2.07 -		Actual Deferral Percentage Limits	22
	Section 2.08 -		Correction of Excess Elective Deferrals	25
	Section 2.09 -		Actual Contribution Percentage Limits	27
	Section 2.10 -		Correction of Excess Aggregate Contributions	28
	Section 2.11 -		Correction of Excess Deferral Amounts	30
	Section 2.12 -		Limitation on the Multiple Use of the Alternative Limitation	31
	Section 2.13 -		Correction of Excess Use of the Multiple Use of the Alternative Limitation	32

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ARTICLE III		MATCHING AND OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE COMPANY		32

	Section 3.01 -		Percentage and Investment of Company Matching and Other Contributions	32
	Section 3.02 -		Adjustment of Contributions	34
	Section 3.03 -		Forfeitures	34
	Section 3.04 -		Maximum Contributions	34
	Section 3.05 -		Combined Plan Limitation	35

ARTICLE III-A		INVESTMENT OPTIONS		37

	Section 3.01-A -		Choice of Investment Options	37
	Section 3.02-A -		Continuation and Change of Investment Options for Future Contributions	38
	Section 3.03-A -		Limitations on Change of Investment Options for Past Contributions and Disposition of Raytheon Stock Fund or the News Corp. Stock Fund	38

ARTICLE IV		MAINTENANCE AND VALUATION OF ACCOUNTS		39

	Section 4.01 -		Maintenance of Separate Accounts	39
	Section 4.02 -		DIRECTV Equity, DIRECTV Fixed Income, DIRECTV Balanced Fund, Class H Common Stock Fund, DIRECTV Common Stock Fund, News Corp. Stock Fund and Raytheon Stock Fund Units	39
	Section 4.03 -		Class H Common Stock; Class H Common Stock Fund	40
	Section 4.04 -		Raytheon Stock; Raytheon Stock Fund	40
	Section 4.05 -		Fidelity Mutual Funds	41
	Section 4.06 -		DIRECTV Common Stock; DIRECTV Common Stock Fund	41
	Section 4.07 -		News Corp. Stock; News Corp. Stock Fund	41
	Section 4.08 -		Account Valuation	42

ARTICLE V		VESTING; BENEFIT AND WITHDRAWAL RIGHTS		42

	Section 5.01 -		Vesting of Participant Contributions and Deferrals	42
	Section 5.02 -		Vesting of Company Matching Contributions	42
	Section 5.03 -		Distribution Following Separation	43
	Section 5.04 -		Installment and Lump Sum Distributions and Commencement of Distribution	45
	Section 5.05 -		Withdrawals of After-Tax Contributions and Certain Vested Company Contributions	46
	Section 5.06 -		No Repayment of Withdrawals	47

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	Section 5.07 -		Forfeiture of Non-Vested Company Contributions	47
	Section 5.08 -		Hardship Withdrawals	47
	Section 5.09 -		Participant Loans	49
	Section 5.10 -		Distribution on Sale of Assets or Sale of Subsidiary	50
	Section 5.11 -		Withdrawal by Participant Following Age 59-1/2	51

ARTICLE VI		SUSPENSION OF DEFERRAL OF COMPENSATION AND CONTRIBUTIONS		52

	Section 6.01 -		Voluntary Suspension of Deferrals and Contributions	52
	Section 6.02 -		Involuntary Suspension of Deferrals and Contributions	52
	Section 6.03 -		Participation During Suspension	52

ARTICLE VII		PAYMENT TO A BENEFICIARY		53

	Section 7.01 -		Death Benefit Payment to Beneficiary	53
	Section 7.02 -		Form and Timing of Death Benefit Payment	53
	Section 7.03 -		Beneficiary of Married Participant	54

ARTICLE VIII		TRUST AGREEMENT		54

	Section 8.01 -		Appointment of Trustee	54
	Section 8.02 -		Provisions of Trust Agreement	54
	Section 8.03 -		Express Benefit Limitation	54
	Section 8.04 -		No Guarantee of Benefit	55
	Section 8.05 -		Payment of Costs, Expenses and Taxes	55
	Section 8.06 -		Common Investments with the Thrift and Savings Plan	55

ARTICLE IX		ADMINISTRATION		56

	Section 9.01 -		Authority of Administrator	56
	Section 9.02 -		Prohibition Against Discrimination	57
	Section 9.03 -		Administrative Committee	57
	Section 9.04 -		Compensation of Committee	57
	Section 9.05 -		Effect of Administrative Action	57
	Section 9.06 -		Payments and Prohibition of Assignment	58
	Section 9.07 -		Maintenance of Name and Address	58
	Section 9.08 -		Communication Requirements	58
	Section 9.09 -		Claims Procedure	59
	Section 9.10 -		Withholding of Taxes	60

ARTICLE X		TERMINATION AND AMENDMENT OF THE PLAN		60

	Section 10.01 -		Termination or Partial Termination of Plan	60
	Section 10.02 -		Amendment of Plan	61

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ARTICLE XI		TOP HEAVY PROVISIONS		62

	Section 11.01 -		Top Heavy Definitions	62
	Section 11.02 -		Top Heavy Special Rules	63
	Section 11.03 -		Top Heavy Provisions	63
	Section 11.04 -		Modification of Top-heavy Rules	64

ARTICLE XII		MISCELLANEOUS		65

	Section 12.01 -		Proof of Identity of Recipient	65
	Section 12.02 -		Limitation on Source of Benefit Payment	65
	Section 12.03 -		Payment Conditioned Upon Release of Claims	65
	Section 12.04 -		Rollover, Direct Transfers, Spin Offs and Elective Transfers	66
	Section 12.05 -		Payments to Minors and Incompetents; Forfeiture of Benefits of Missing Participants	69
	Section 12.06 -		Merger of Plan	70
	Section 12.07 -		Named Fiduciaries	70
	Section 12.08 -		Allocation of Fiduciary Responsibilities	70
	Section 12.09 -		Copying and Inspection of Plan Documents	71
	Section 12.10 -		No Express or Implied Employment Contract	71
	Section 12.11 -		Service of Legal Process	72
	Section 12.12 -		Statement to Participants	72
	Section 12.13 -		Errors, Misstatements, and Payment of Interest	72
	Section 12.14 -		Adoption of Plan By Companies	72
	Section 12.15 -		Governing Law	72
	Section 12.16 -		Pronouns	73
	Section 12.17 -		Effect of Titles	73

ARTICLE XIII		MINIMUM DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENTS		73

	Section 13.01 -		General Rules	73
	Section 13.02 -		Time and Manner of Distribution	73
	Section 13.03 -		Required Minimum Distributions During Participant’s Lifetime	74
	Section 13.04 -		Required Minimum Distributions After Participant’s Death	75

SIGNATURES				78

EXHIBIT A				79

DIRECTV

SAVINGS PLUS PLAN

This Plan, executed by THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC., a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware (formerly known as Hughes Electronics Corporation), evidences the terms of an amendment to and comprehensive restatement of the DIRECTV Savings Plus Plan (formerly known as the Hughes Savings Plus Plan), which was originally effective on March 1, 1968, and subsequently amended from time to time thereafter.

Effective as of June 1, 1998, the Hughes Tucson Bargaining Employees Thrift and Savings Plan, the other plan resulting from the split as of August 3, 1985, of the Hughes Aircraft Company Hourly Employees’ Savings Plan, was merged into this Plan.

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS

Section 1.01 - General

Section 1.02 - Account

“Account” of a Participant means the account or accounts in the Trust Fund established in accordance with Section 4.01.

Section 1.03 - Administrator

Section 1.04 - Anniversary Date

Section 1.05 - Beneficiary

Section 1.06 - Board

“Board” means the Board of Directors of DIRECTV acting as such or by and through its committees.

Section 1.07 - Break in Service Year

For purposes of determining whether a Break in Service Year has occurred for vesting and eligibility purposes, an Employee who is absent from work that commences for maternity or paternity reasons, or as allowed under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, shall receive credit for the Hours of Service which would otherwise have been credited to such Employee but for such absence, or in any case in which such hours cannot be determined, eight (8) Hours of Service per day of such absence. For purposes hereof, an absence from work which commences for maternity or paternity reasons means an absence by reason of pregnancy of the Employee, by reason of the birth of a child of the Employee, by reason of the placement of a child with the Employee in connection with the adoption of such child by such Employee, or for purposes of caring for such child for a period beginning immediately following such birth or placement. The Hours of Service credited hereunder for maternity or paternity reasons shall be credited in the computation period in which the absence begins if the crediting is necessary to prevent a Break in Service Year in that period, or in all other cases, in the following computation period.

Section 1.08 - Business Day

“Business Day” means any day that the New York Stock Exchange is open for business.

Section 1.09 - Class H Common Stock

Section 1.10 - Class H Common Stock Fund

Section 1.11 - Code

Section 1.12 - Combined Continuous Participation

“Combined Continuous Participation” of a Participant means the aggregate of his Continuous Participation in this Plan and in the DIRECTV Thrift and Savings Plan (formerly known as the Hughes Non-Bargaining Employees Thrift and Savings Plan and hereinafter “Thrift and Savings Plan”), provided that the periods of Continuous Participation are not separated by a voluntary quit or discharge from employment, or by a resignation from either of the plans, or by a failure to make a timely application in accordance with Section 2.01.

Section 1.13 - Committee

“Committee” means an Administrative Committee appointed by DIRECTV under Section 9.03.

Section 1.14 - Company or Companies

Section 1.15 - Compensation

Hughes Electronics Corporation Incentive Plan, The DIRECTV Group, Inc. 2004 Stock Plan, as well as any similar type incentive plan as determined from time to time by DIRECTV, subject to the following:

(b) “Compensation” as used in Sections 3.04 and 11.03 shall mean:

1998, compensation paid or made available during such limitation years shall include elective amounts that are not includible in the gross income of the employee by reason of Section 132(f)(4) of the Code);

(iv) amounts described in Sections 104(a)(3), 105(a) and 105(h) of the Code, but only to the extent that these amounts are includable in the gross income of the Employee;

(v) amounts described in Section 105(d) of the Code, whether or not these amounts are excludable from the gross income of the Employee under that section;

(viii) the amount includable in the gross income of an Employee upon making the election described in Section 83(b) of the Code;

and provided further that:

received by an Employee pursuant to an unfunded non-qualified plan may be considered as Compensation in the year such amounts are includable in the gross income of the Employee;

(iii) amounts realized from the sale, exchange or other disposition of stock acquired under a qualified stock option; and

Section 1.16 - Continuous Participation

Section 1.17 - Continuous Service

“Continuous Service” of an Employee means his current period as an Employee of one or more Companies or a member of the Controlled Group in any positions or classifications (including his period of employment with such member prior to the time the member became a part of the Controlled Group if the Employee transferred employment directly from such member to the Company at any time after the member became part of the Controlled Group, provided that a reciprocal arrangement exists between DIRECTV and such member), but excluding periods of unpaid absence while an Employee, excludable under Company personnel policy consistently applied, and not includable under the terms of any collective bargaining agreement. No such period of unpaid absence, however, shall be considered a break in Continuous Service. Continuous Service shall be broken by a Separation from the Service under which the Employee has no recall rights.

Section 1.18 - Controlled Group

of such Code, under subsection 415(h)) of which the Companies (and any other company so designated by the Administrator) are members.

Section 1.19 - Current Market Value of Class H Common Stock

Section 1.20 - Current Market Value of Raytheon Stock

“Current Market Value of Raytheon Stock” means the closing price as reported by the New York Stock Exchange for each Valuation Date.

Section 1.21 - Date of Partial Withdrawal

“Date of Partial Withdrawal” means the date recorded by the Trustee as the date of its payment of the amount withdrawn.

Section 1.22 - DIRECTV

“DIRECTV” means on and after March 16, 2004, The DIRECTV Group, Inc., and prior to March 16, 2004, Hughes.

Section 1.23 - DIRECTV Balanced Fund

Section 1.24 - DIRECTV Common Stock

Section 1.25 - DIRECTV Common Stock Fund

Section 1.26 - DIRECTV Equity Fund

Section 1.27 - DIRECTV Fixed Income Fund

Section 1.28 - Dollar Balance

“Dollar Balance” means on each Valuation Date:

(a) Prior to June 1, 1998,

(i) with reference to a Participant’s balance in one of the Funds, the product of the Participant’s number of Units in such Fund multiplied by the Unit value for such Fund on such Valuation Date;

(iii) with reference to a Participant’s Account in the Trust Fund, the sum of Participant’s Dollar Balance in the Funds and Class H Common Stock and Raytheon Stock.

(b) On and after June 1, 1998,

(i) with reference to a Participant’s balance in each of the Funds, the product of the Participant’s number of Units in such Fund multiplied by the Net Asset Value for such Fund on such Valuation Date, less fees and expenses deducted once a quarter (or such other time period as may be determined by the Administrator from time to time) as provided in Section 8.05(b)(ii); and

(ii) with reference to a Participant’s Account in the Trust Fund, the sum of Participant’s Dollar Balance in the Funds, less any applicable processing fees deducted under the terms of the Plan.

Section 1.29 - Eligible Employee

“Eligible Employee” means any Employee who:

(a) Is a United States citizen or resident; and

(b) Is not employed in a position or classification within a bargaining unit which is covered by a collective bargaining agreement with respect to which retirement benefits were the subject of good faith bargaining (unless such agreement provides for coverage hereunder of employees of such unit); and

(c) Effective on or after December 1, 2000, and as soon as administratively feasible, is employed or reemployed as an Employee who is on the Boise Call Center payroll of DIRECTV Customer Services, Inc.; or

(d) Effective on or after January 1, 2004, and as soon as administratively feasible, is employed or reemployed by DIRECTV Customer Services, Inc. or is employed or reemployed by such other Company, and effective at such date, as designated on Exhibit A.

Section 1.30 - Employee

Section 1.31 - Entry Date

“Entry Date” of an Employee means the first day of any payroll period following the Employee’s completion of the eligibility requirements to become a Participant.

Section 1.32 - ERISA

“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 as it may be amended from time to time.

Section 1.33 - Fidelity Mutual Fund

Section 1.34 - Fund

“Fund” means:

Section 1.35 - Hours of Service

The “Hours of Service” of an Employee or former Employee means the sum of:

(a) his hours of actual work on the job,

(b) his periods of vacation, holiday, Military Service, paid sick leave or paid leave of absence, computed on the basis of the number of hours in his regularly scheduled work day and work week, and

Section 1.36 - Hughes

“Hughes” means, prior to March 29, 1995, Hughes Aircraft Company, and on and after March 29, 1995, Hughes Electronics Corporation.

Section 1.37 - Investment Manager

“Investment Manager” means the person, persons, firm or corporation appointed by DIRECTV, or any Investment Manager so authorized, pursuant to a written

investment management agreement describing the powers and duties of the Investment Manager to direct the Trustee concerning the investment and reinvestment of the principal and income of the Trust Fund or a specified portion thereof.

Section 1.38 - Investment Option

“Investment Option” means one of the options specified in Article III-A.

Section 1.39 - Leased Employee

Section 1.40 - Military Service

Section 1.41 - Net Asset Value

“Net Asset Value” means the Unit price of each Fund determined by subtracting the total liabilities of such Fund from its total assets and then dividing by the number of Units outstanding.

Section 1.42 - News Corp. Stock

Section 1.43 - News Corp. Stock Fund

Section 1.44 - Normal Retirement Age

“Normal Retirement Age” means the time the Participant attains age 65.

Section 1.45 - Participant

“Participant” means an Eligible Employee who has voluntarily complied with the requirements, if any, of Section 2.01.

Section 1.46 - Participant Direction

“Participant Direction” means direction provided by a Participant (or Beneficiary or alternate payee under a qualified domestic relations order, as applicable), and delivered to the Administrator either on appropriate forms supplied by the Administrator, by a telephonic voice response system (such as to the Spectrum Service Center) maintained by the Administrator for such purpose, or in such other form or manner as may be required by the Administrator from time to time; and such direction shall be effective on the Business Day of receipt or the following Business Day as determined by the Administrator, or as soon thereafter as administratively feasible.

Section 1.47 - Plan

“Plan” means the DIRECTV Savings Plus Plan, as amended from time to time.

Section 1.48 - Plan Year

“Plan Year” means:

(a) Prior to January 1, 1988, the twelve (12) month period commencing each January 1st;

(b) The eleven (11) month period commencing January 1, 1988 and ending November 30, 1988; and

(c) Commencing December 1, 1988, the twelve (12) month period commencing each December 1st and ending the following November 30th.

Section 1.49 - Raytheon Stock

“Raytheon Stock” means Raytheon Class A Common Stock received by the Plan as the result of the spin off of HE Holdings, Inc. and the subsequent merger of Raytheon Company into it.

Section 1.50 - Raytheon Stock Fund

Section 1.51 - Retirement

“Retirement” means retirement of a Participant, pursuant to the retirement plan and policy of DIRECTV at the time of such retirement.

Section 1.52 - Separation from the Service

(a) “Separation from the Service” of an Employee means his quit, discharge, layoff (other than a temporary layoff), death, Retirement, or effective January 1, 2002, his severance from employment under Section 401(k)(2)(B)(i)(I) of the Code for any severance from employment occurring after October 1, 2000, from a Company or a member of the Controlled Group.

Section 1.53 - Trust

“Trust” means the trust established pursuant to the Trust Agreement.

Section 1.54- Trust Agreement

Section 1.55 - Trustee

“Trustee” means the Trustee and any successor or substitute trustee under the Trust Agreement.

Section 1.56 - Trust Fund

“Trust Fund” means all funds received and held by the Trustee in the Funds pursuant to the Plan and Trust Agreement and all income, profits and increments thereof.

Section 1.57 - Unit

“Unit” means the unit of measure of a Participant’s interests in each of the Funds.

Section 1.58 - Valuation Date

“Valuation Date” means the applicable Business Day, or such other date as the Administrator may determine, used to determine the Dollar Balance of a Participant’s Account.

Section 1.59 - Vested

“Vested” means non-forfeitable when used with reference to a Participant’s Account.

Section 1.60 - Year of Service

“Year of Service” of an Employee means:

(b) For purposes of paragraph (a) and the Plan, the following definitions shall apply:

(i) Service with PanAmSat Corporation from May 16, 1997 and Service with DIRECTV Latin America will be treated as Service with a member of the Controlled Group; and

ARTICLE II

PARTICIPATION: PARTICIPANTS’ CONTRIBUTIONS

Section 2.01 - Percentage of Contribution

(a) An Eligible Employee who is or who becomes a Participant in the Plan may on an after-tax basis:

(i) effective April 1, 1983 until the first payroll period in July 1986 authorize a deduction from Compensation paid each week an amount equal to:

a. $2.00 or $4.00 during the first year of Combined Continuous Participation;

b. $2.00, $4.00 or $6.00 if the Eligible Employee is in the second or third year of combined Continuous Participation; or

c. $2.00, $4.00, $6.00, $8.00, $10.00, $12.00, $14.00, $16.00, $18.00 or $20.00, if the Eligible Employee has three (3) or more years of Combined Continuous Participation.

(ii) effective October 28, 1995, and upon approval of the Administrator, authorize as a deduction from Compensation paid each payroll period an amount equal to:

a. 1%, 2%, 3%, 4%, 5%, 6% or 7% of his Compensation;

(b) An Eligible Employee who is or who becomes a Participant in the Plan may on a pre-tax basis:

(i) effective for the first payroll week of July 1986, until prior to the first payroll week of December 1989, authorize the Company to defer from his Compensation paid each week an amount equal to:

a. $2.00, $4.00, $6.00, $8.00, $10.00, $12.00, $14.00, $16.00, $18.00, or $20.00 of his Compensation;

b. additional amounts increasing in $2.00 increments above the amounts specified in paragraph (i) up to a maximum of $40.00 of his Compensation; and

(ii) effective for the first payroll week of December 1989, authorize the Company to defer from his Compensation paid each week an amount equal to:

a. 2%, 3%, 4%, 5%, 6% or 7% (and effective January 2, 1993, 1%) of his or Compensation;

(d) For Employees hired prior to December 1, 1999, participation shall be effective not later than the Entry Date occurring after becoming an Eligible Employee and for the payroll period beginning after receipt by the Administrator of a Participant Direction or as soon as administratively feasible thereafter, which shall:

(i) authorize a specific deduction or deferral from Compensation in accordance with paragraph (a) or (b), or both, of this Section;

(ii) specify pursuant to Section 3.01-A the Investment Option (but not Raytheon Stock Fund) under which the Employee’s contributions or deferrals are to be initially invested;

(iii) designate a Beneficiary or Beneficiaries in accordance with the terms of the Plan to receive payment which may be due under the Plan upon the death of the Eligible Employee; and

(iv) contain such other or additional information as, in the opinion of the Administrator, is desirable or necessary in the operation of the Plan.

(e) For Employees hired on and after December 1, 1999 and prior to July 26, 2003, but not rehired Employees, participation shall be effective on the Entry Date occurring after becoming an Eligible Employee and for the payroll period beginning on or after such Entry Date. Unless the Administrator receives a Participant Direction to the contrary, such Eligible Employee shall be deemed to have made a Participant Direction, which shall:

(i) authorize a deferral of 2% of his Compensation in accordance with paragraph (b) of this Section;

(ii) specify pursuant to Section 3.01-A that the Investment Option under which the Employee’s deferrals are to be initially invested shall be the DIRECTV Fixed Income Fund; and

(f) For Employees hired on and after July 26, 2003, and for all rehired Employees, participation shall be effective on the Entry Date occurring after the later of becoming an Eligible Employee or for the payroll period beginning after receipt by the Administrator of a Participant Direction or as soon as administratively feasible thereafter, which shall:

(i) authorize a specific deduction or deferral from Compensation in accordance with paragraph (a) or (b), or both, of this Section;

(iii) designate a Beneficiary or Beneficiaries in accordance with the terms of the Plan to receive payment which may be due under the Plan upon the death of the Eligible Employee; and

(iv) contain such other or additional information as, in the opinion of the Administrator, is desirable or necessary in the operation of the Plan.

(g) Effective July 1, 2002, all Employees who are eligible to make elective deferrals under this plan and who have attained age 50 before the close of the calendar year shall be eligible to make catch-up contributions in accordance with, and subject to the limitations of, Section 414(v) of the Code. Such catch-up contributions shall not be taken into account for purposes of the provisions of the Plan implementing the required limitations of Sections 402(g) and 415 of the Code and the deferral limitation Paragraph (b). The plan shall not be treated as failing to satisfy the provisions of the Plan implementing the requirements of Section 401(a)(4) 401(k)(3), 401(k)(11), 401(k)(12), 410(b), or 416 of the Code, as applicable, by reason of the making of such catch-up contributions.

Section 2.02 - Change of Percentage

Section 2.03 - Payroll Deductions

Payroll deductions shall be made only if the Participant has Compensation available after all other deductions required by law or his Company have been made.

Section 2.04 - Payment of Contribution

Section 2.05 - Suspension and Resumption of Contributions

A Participant may suspend and resume his payroll deferrals or deductions in accordance with Article VI.

Section 2.06 - Reemployment

Section 2.07 - Actual Deferral Percentage Limits

The Actual Deferral Percentage under Section 2.01(b) shall be modified as provided in Section 2.08(a) if the requirements of paragraph (a) are not satisfied.

(i) the High Deferral Average is no greater than the Low Deferral Average times 125%; or

(c) Whenever any of the following items are used with the first letter or letters capitalized, they shall have the meanings specified below unless the context clearly indicates to the contrary.

(iii) “Aggregate Limit” means the greater of:

(v) “Employee Contributions” means contributions made by a Participant under Section 2.01(a)(ii) during the Plan Year.

(vi) “Excess Aggregate Contributions” means the amount described in Section 401(m)(6)(B) of the Code.

(vii) “Excess Elective Deferrals” means the amount described in Section 401(k)(8)(B) of the Code.

(viii) “High Contribution Average” means the average (expressed as a percentage) of the Actual Contribution Percentage of each Highly Compensated Employee.

(ix) “High Deferral Average” means the average (expressed as a percentage) of the Actual Deferral Percentage of each Highly Compensated Employee.

For this purpose, the determination year shall be the Plan Year. The look-back year shall be the calendar year that ends within the determination

year (or, in the case of a determination year that is shorter than twelve (12) months, the calendar year ending with or within the 12-month period ending with the end of the applicable determination year).

(xi) “Low Contribution Average” means the average (expressed as a percentage) of the Actual Contribution Percentage of each Non-Highly Compensated Employee.

(xii) “Low Deferral Average” means the average (expressed as a percentage) of the Actual Deferral Percentage of each Non-Highly Compensated Employee.

(xiv) “Non-Highly Compensated Employee” means an Eligible Employee of the Company who is not a Highly Compensated Employee.

(xv) “Qualified Nonelective Contributions�� means contributions by the Company allocated at the Company’s discretion to the Account of any or all Non-Highly Compensated Employees that:

a. The Participant may not elect to receive in cash until distributed from the Plan;

b. Are 100% Vested when contributed; and

c. Are distributable only in accordance with the distribution provisions of the Plan that apply to Elective Deferrals.

is unable to make an Elective Deferral because his Compensation is less than a stated dollar amount. In the case of an Eligible Employee who makes no Elective Deferral, the deferral ratio that is to be included in determining the Actual Deferral Percentage is zero.