The DirecTV Group (DTV)

Reclassifications

        Beginning in 2005, we report investments in auction rate securities as "Short-term investments" rather than our previous practice of reporting these investments as part of "Cash and cash equivalents" in our Consolidated Balance Sheets. As a result, we reclassified $522.6 million from "Cash and cash equivalents" to "Short-term investments" in our Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 2004. Also, our cash flows from investing activities now include purchases and sales of auction rate securities. This reclassification has no effect on our previously reported total current assets, total assets, working capital or results of operations and does not affect our previously reported cash flows from operating or financing activities.

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Revised Presentation of Cash Flows from Discontinued Operations

        We have revised our 2004 and 2003 consolidated statements of cash flows to separately disclose the operating, investing and financing portions of cash flows attributable to our discontinued operations. We had previously reported these amounts on a combined basis in a single line item.

Reclassifications

Beginning in the fourth quarter of 2004, we report payments in transit drawn on bank accounts at financial institutions where we have no cash on deposit in “Accounts payable” instead of our previous practice of deducting these payments in transit from “Cash and cash equivalents.” Payments in transit were $25.3 million at December 31, 2004 and $59.4 million at December 31, 2003.

Beginning in the third quarter of 2004, we changed the categories of operating costs and expenses included in the Consolidated Statements of Operations to a presentation that adds clarity and ease of understanding of the results of operations of our DTH businesses. Also, we disaggregated the Direct-To-Home Broadcast segment, which included the DIRECTV U.S. and DIRECTV Latin America businesses. We now report the DIRECTV U.S. and DIRECTV Latin America businesses as separate segments as provided by Statement of Financial Accounting Standards, or SFAS, No. 131, “Disclosures about Segments of an Enterprise and Related Information.”

Beginning on January 1, 2004, we allocate pension and other postretirement benefit expenses to our subsidiaries.

We reclassified prior period information in the consolidated financial statements to conform to the current period presentation.