COMPANY

Satellite broadcasting service, formerly Hughes Electronics. Owned by Liberty Media since 2008. Sale to AT&T for $48.5B is pending as of 2014.

Abysmal customer service.

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

Industry:
Communications

Ticker:
NYSE:DTV

Corporate headquarters:
El Segundo, CA

Sales:
$14.7B (2006)

Employees:
9900 (2007)

EXECUTIVES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Roxanne S. Austin	Business	c. 1960		President and COO of DirecTV, 2001-03
Chase Carey	Business	c. 1954		President and COO of News Corporation
Odie C. Donald	Business	c. 1949		President of DirecTV, 2000-01
Michael D. White	Business	c. 1952		CEO of DirecTV

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Neil R. Austrian	Business	c. 1940		President of NFL, 1991-98
Ralph F. Boyd, Jr.	Attorney	c. 1957		EVP at Freddie Mac
David B. Dillon	Business	1951		CEO of Kroger
Samuel A. DiPiazza, Jr.	Business	c. 1951		Vice Chairman, Pricewaterhouse Coopers
Dixon R. Doll	Business	c. 1942		Doll Capital Management
Charles R. Lee	Business	c. 1941		CEO of Verizon, 2000-02
Peter A. Lund	Business	c. 1941		CEO of CBS, 1995-97
Nancy S. Newcomb	Business	c. 1946		Former Citigroup executive
Lorrie Norrington	Business	c. 1960		President of eBay Marketplaces, 2008-10
Michael D. White	Business	c. 1952		CEO of DirecTV

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Chase Carey	Business	c. 1954		President and COO of News Corporation
Peter Chernin	Business	29-May-1951		President of News Corporation
James M. Cornelius	Business	c. 1943		CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb
David F. DeVoe	Business	c. 1947		CFO of News Corporation
Paul A. Gould	Business	c. 1945		Allen & Company
Greg Maffei	Business	24-May-1960		CEO of Liberty Media
John C. Malone	Business	7-Mar-1941		Cable TV billionaire, Liberty Media
Eckhard Pfeiffer	Business	20-Aug-1941		CEO of Compaq, 1991-99
Haim Saban	Business	1944		Billionaire
John L. Thornton	Business	c. 1954		President of Goldman Sachs, 1999-2003

CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Jason Alexander	Actor	23-Sep-1959		George Costanza on Seinfeld
Pamela Anderson	Actor	1-Jul-1967		Baywatch
Kathy Bates	Actor	28-Jun-1948		Misery
Drew Carey	Comic	23-May-1958		The Drew Carey Show
Danny DeVito	Actor	17-Nov-1944		Short loudmouth from Taxi
Robert Duvall	Actor	5-Jan-1931		Tom Hagen in The Godfather
Stacy Ferguson	Singer	27-Mar-1975		Fergie from Black Eyed Peas
Laurence Fishburne	Actor	30-Jul-1961		The Matrix
John Goodman	Actor	20-Jun-1952		King Ralph
John Michael Higgins	Actor	12-Feb-1963		The Late Shift
Jimmy Kimmel	Talk Show Host	13-Nov-1967		The Man Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live
Walter Koenig	Actor	14-Sep-1936		Chekov on Star Trek
Denis Leary	Comic	18-Aug-1957		Loud, smoking comic
Christopher Lloyd	Actor	22-Oct-1938		Jim Ignatowski on Taxi
Ed McMahon	Talk Show Host	6-Mar-1923	23-Jun-2009	The Tonight Show
Dennis Miller	Comic	3-Nov-1953		SNL news anchor, born-again Republican
Pat Morita	Actor	28-Jun-1932	24-Nov-2005	Miyagi on Karate Kid
Mike Myers	Comic	25-May-1963		Austin Powers
Robert Patrick	Actor	5-Nov-1958		Mimetic polyalloy in Terminator 2
Bill Paxton	Actor	17-May-1955		Mighty Joe Young
William Shatner	Actor	22-Mar-1931		Captain Kirk on Star Trek
Ben Stein	Game Show Host	25-Nov-1944		Host of Win Ben Stein's Money
Verne Troyer	Actor	1-Jan-1969		Mini-Me
Sigourney Weaver	Actor	8-Oct-1949		Alien
will.i.am	Rapper	15-Mar-1975		Black Eyed Peas

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