PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 10, 2002 (PRIMEZONE) -- Hughes Electronics Corporation (NYSE:GMH) will broadcast its Fourth Quarterly Earnings Results Conference Call on Tuesday, January 15, 2002 at 2:00 PM Eastern, Vcall, a Service of World Investor Link, announced today. This call can be accessed at http://www.vcall.com/EventPage.asp?ID=80341.
HUGHES is the world's leading provider of digital television entertainment, broadband services, satellite-based private business networks, and global video and data broadcasting. A global company with 2000 revenues of $7.3 billion, HUGHES is composed of four main business units:
-- DIRECTV, Inc. is the world's leading provider of digital quality
direct-to-home television entertainment, serving more than 10.7
million customers in the United States. DIRECTV offers more than
475 broadcast channels of sports, news, movies and family
programming, including local broadcast channels in 51 metropolitan
markets, high definition and foreign-language programming, and
over 30 channels of commercial-free, CD-quality music. DIRECTV
also offers digital subscriber line (DSL) Internet services
through DIRECTV Broadband.
-- DIRECTV Latin America is the region's leading direct-to-home
satellite entertainment service with more than 1.3 million
customers in 28 countries. DIRECTV Latin America operates five
broadcast centers, which beam more than 5,000 hours of programming
a day.
-- Hughes Network Systems is the world's leading provider of
satellite-based private business networks and Internet services,
including DIRECWAY, a two-way, broadband-by-satellite service. It
is also a leading supplier of DIRECTV receiver equipment and
terrestrial broadband wireless access products. HNS is building
Spaceway, which represents the next generation in satellite
communications technology.
-- PanAmSat is the world's leading commercial provider of satellite
-based video and data broadcast services. PanAmSat operates a fleet
of 21 satellites that circle the globe, enabling PanAmSat
customers to reach millions of people over vast geographic areas.
PanAmSat distributes television programming to cable operators and
network affiliates that reach more than 125 million households
worldwide, and carries nearly 7,000 hours per month of news,
sports and special event transmissions worldwide.
The earnings of Hughes Electronics are used to calculate the earnings per share attributable to the General Motors Class H common stock (NYSE:GMH). Visit HUGHES on the World Wide Web at http://www.hughes.com.
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