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EXHIBIT 99.2
PEGASUS AND PERSONALIZED MEDIA FILE PATENT INFRINGEMENT SUIT
AGAINST DIRECTV AND CERTAIN DIRECTV MANUFACTURERS
BALA CYNWYD PA, December 4, 2000 - Pegasus Communications Corporation (NASDAQ:
PGTV) announced today that Pegasus Development Corporation, a subsidiary of
Pegasus Communications Corporation, and Personalized Media Communications,
L.L.C. had filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the United States District
Court of Delaware against DIRECTV, Inc., Hughes Electronics Corporation, Thomson
Consumer Electronics and Philips Electronics North America Corporation.
Pegasus Development is an exclusive licensee of Personalized Media's portfolio
of advanced media and communications technology patents. The technologies
covered by Pegasus' exclusive license include services distributed to consumers
using certain Ku band BSS frequencies and Ka band frequencies, including
frequencies licensed to affiliates of Hughes and used by DIRECTV to provide
services to its subscribers.
Pegasus and Personalized Media are seeking injunctive relief and monetary
damages from the defendants' patent infringement and their unauthorized
manufacture, use, sale, offer to sell and importation of products, services and
systems that fall within the scope of the plaintiffs' patented media and
communications technologies.
About Pegasus
Pegasus Communications Corporation (www.pgtv.com) is one of the fastest growing
media companies in the United States and, after giving effect to pending
acquisitions, serves approximately 1.4 million DBS subscribers in 42 states.
Pegasus is the tenth largest multichannel video provider in the United States.
Pegasus is the only publicly traded media and communications company exclusively
focused on providing services to rural and underserved areas. Through agreements
with MetaTV, Liberate Technologies, Personalized Media, Genuity, Hughes Network
Systems and other companies, Pegasus is expanding the array of advanced digital
products and services it offers through the more than 3,500 independent
retailers in the Pegasus Retail Network to include interactive television, TV
centric Internet access and broadband Internet access to TV's, PC's and other
Internet access appliances.
About Personalized Media
Personalized Media Communications (www.personalizedmedia.com) is the developer
of advanced communications technologies covered by seven issued U.S patents.
These patents cover methods and apparatus relating to personalized interactive
television. Existing Personalized Media licensees include Sony, The Weather
Channel and Pegasus Development.
For further information, please contact:
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Yolanda Robins Bob Caird
Pegasus Communications Personalized Media Communications
610-934-7030 212-286-0554
[email protected] BCaird @personalizedmedia.com
Jeff Majtyka
Brainerd Communicators
212-986-6667
[email protected]
