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To: VidiVici who wrote (41842)	6/8/1999 1:31:00 PM
From: Don Dorsey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Jun 8, 1999 (BUSINESS WIRE via COMTEX) -- DIRECTV Inc., a unit of Hughes Electronics Corp., Tuesday announced that its DIRECTV direct broadcast satellite (DBS) television service acquired 110,000 net new customers in May, a record for that month and a 57 percent increase in net customer acquisition over May 1998. An additional 145,000 customers -- consumers who previously only subscribed to programming from U.S. Satellite Broadcasting Co. Inc. (USSB) -- were obtained last month by DIRECTV when Hughes completed its merger with USSB on May 20. Through the first five months of 1999, DIRECTV's customer growth -- excluding customers obtained from the merger with USSB -- is up 49 percent over the same year-ago period. Through the end of May, DIRECTV had 5,159,000 customers to its high-power DBS service. DIRECTV is the nation's largest distributor of multichannel digital video programming, with more than 7 million customers, including customers subscribing to the recently acquired PRIMESTAR medium-power DBS service.