DIRECTV ScoreGuide™ Provides Sports Fans with the Ultimate Navigation Tool at the Push of a Button

New On-Screen Multi-Channel Feature Enhancing DIRECTV’s Industry-leading Program Guide Lets Fans Track Up-to-the-Minute Scores and Instantly Tune to Games

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The little red button on the DIRECTV remote is about to come up big for sports fans.

That’s how DIRECTV customers with advanced receivers will activate ScoreGuide™, a new on-screen feature of DIRECTV’s industry-leading program guide. Launched today, ScoreGuide enables fans to easily track scores and start times of major sporting events, see a list of channels carrying each event and tune directly to those channels.

Viewers will be alerted to ScoreGuide by a small on-screen icon and have access to the new feature on more than 200 DIRECTV sports channels, including regional sports networks, DIRECTV sports subscription channels (channels 700-799), and national cable networks that primarily cover sports.

ScoreGuide, offered compliments of DIRECTV, displays a lineup of sporting events in progress, as well as upcoming daily and weekly events. ScoreGuide also provides DIRECTV channel numbers associated with each of the events and allows customers to tune to those specific channels with the push of a button on their remote control.

ScoreGuide can be minimized to show just one game at a time, and if a viewer chooses, can also be left open as a visual means of tracking a specific game. Each day presents a new schedule of daily events, and weekly events are updated every Thursday.

Sports on ScoreGuide will include: NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, top 25 college football and basketball, tennis (men’s and women’s Grand Slam event quarterfinals and later rounds), golf (PGA Tour majors) and next season, NASCAR^®.

DIRECTV has been a front-runner in the development of advanced television features and services, including its popular NFL SUNDAY TICKET™ SuperFan^®, MEGA MARCH MADNESS^® and NASCAR HotPass™ services. The nation’s No. 1 satellite TV service also offers exclusive interactive services for the world’s most popular annual sports events, including golf’s four majors and tennis’ four Grand Slam events. The development of ScoreGuide — a first for television — is simply another in the long line of technical innovations from DIRECTV.

About DIRECTV, Inc.

DIRECTV, Inc. (NASDAQ:DTV - News), the nation’s No. 1 satellite TV service, presents the finest television experience available to more than 17.6 million customers in the United States and is leading the HD revolution with more than 130 HD channels. Each day, DIRECTV subscribers enjoy access to over 265 channels of 100% digital picture and sound, exclusive programming, industry-leading customer satisfaction (which has surpassed national cable companies for eight years running) and superior technologies that include advanced DVR and HD-DVR services and the most state-of-the-art interactive sports packages available anywhere. For the most up-to-date information on DIRECTV, please call 1-800-DIRECTV or visit www.directv.com.