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EXHIBIT 10.1

Ideal International Plaza

Lease Agreement

Suite 01 – 12, Floor 20, Ideal International Plaza

2 Zhongguancun High
– Tech Square, Beijing 100080, PR China

By and between

Lessor : Beijing Zhongwu Ideal Real Estate Development Co., Ltd

And

Lessee : Beijing Sina Information Technology Co., Ltd

Date: April 16, 2004

 

 

Lessor : Beijing Zhongwu Ideal Real Estate Development Co., Ltd

(hereinafter referred to as “Party A”) 

Registered Address: North Court, No. 106, Zhichun Road, Haidian District, and
Beijing

Legal Representative: Wang Lixin

No. of Business License: 1101081510224

Lessee : Beijing Sina Information Technology Co., Ltd

(Hereinafter
referred to as “Party B”) 

Legal Representative: Cao Guowei

This lease agreement (hereinafter referred to as “the agreement”) is signed by
and between both parties via amiable negotiation on April 16, 2004.

	1.	 	Lessee

Party A agrees to let, according to the rules of this contract, the
suites on the business floors (hereinafter referred to as
leasehold) of Idea International Plaza said in this contract
(hereinafter referred to as The Plaza), and Party B agrees to
accept the lease.

The leasehold which Party A leases and Party B accepts includes
Suite 01–12, Floor 20, Idea International Plaza, 2, Zhongguancun
High–tech Square, Beijing, China, with a total the Building area of
2,269.7 sq.m, (detailed in the ichnography, Appendix 2 of this
contract, which is for defining the location and area of the
leasehold only).

Party B shall pay rent for the leasehold to Party A according to
the on–the–spot measured area conducted by the house

 

 

administration of Beijing or other agencies authorized by the
government. If the figure measured out by Beijing house
administration or other state approved agencies differs with that
stated in this contract, the rent shall be re-calculated according
to the actual measured area and then the specified amount of it
shall be modified.

	2.	 	Use of the Leasehold

The leasehold shall be used as offices only.

	3.	 	Term of Lease

	3.1	 	The lease term of the said leasehold in this contract shall
be 5 years, including 36 months of fixed lease commencing from
September 1, 2004 and ending on August 31, 2007 and 24 months of
unfixed lease from September 1, 2007 to August 31, 2009. For the
unfixed lease period, Party B has the right to decide whether to
extend the lease or not. If Party B decides to extend the lease, the
rent from September 1, 2007 to August 31, 2009 shall remain
unchanged, and Party B shall enjoy two months’ free rent, from
September 1 to September 30, 2007 and from September 1 to September
30, 2008.
	 
	3.2	 	The free rent period is six months, including:
In the first year, from September 1 to October 31, 2004;
In the second year, from September 1, to October 31, 2005;
In the third year, from September 1 to October 31, 2006.
During the free rent period, although exempted from rent of the leasehold to
Party A, Party B shall strictly obey each article and clause of this
contract, and pay property management fees and other fees related to
Party B, including but not limited to, electricity charges, phone
charges and fees for extra use of air conditioners.

	4.	 	Period of Fitment

	4.1	 	The fitment period shall be three months from June 1 to August
30, 2004, during which Party B shall be exempted from rent of

 

 

	 	 	the leasehold and the relevant property management fees. If Party B
moves into the leasehold before the end of fitment period (August
30, 2004), property management fees shall be counted since Party B
moves in.

	4.2	 	Party A shall provide Party B, before April 30, 2004, with
necessary conditions for fitment including areas for fitment,
provisional water, electricity, elevators and entrance for goods and
people. If the fitment is delayed due to Party A, the fitment period
and the lease term shall be counted since the day on which the
necessary conditions are actually provided.
	 
	4.3	 	If the fitment is delayed because Party B or the fitting
company on its commission fails to submit in time the fitting scheme
to Beijing fire department or other relevant departments, or the
fitting scheme fails examination by the fire department or other
relevant departments, or Party B fails to submit in time the said
scheme to the property management company of the Plaza, the fitting
period shall not be extended, and Party A shall not bear any
responsibility.
	 
	4.4	 	Party B shall begin its fitting after finishing formal
transfer procedure with the property management company of the Plaza.
The lessee shall take all legal responsibilities concerning the
lease, and pay management fees and public utility charges since the
day of formal transfer or fitment. If it is due to Party A that Party
B fails to finish the transfer procedure with the property management
company of the Plaza in time and thus causes any delay, the fitment
period shall be extended.

	5.	 	Rent, Deposit & Other Charges and Their Payment

	5.1	 	Rent

	5.1.1	 	The daily rent of the leasehold shall be RMB
4.14 Yuan per sq.m (building area) and the monthly rent totals
RMB 281,897 Yuan.
	 
	5.1.1	 	Party B shall pay, within the first 7 days of
each odd month (except months of rent exemption), RMB 563,794
Yuan as two months’ rent for the odd month and the next.

 

 

	 	 	Party B shall not deduct or offset the rent without any
justification.

	5.2	 	Down Payment of Rent
	 
	 	 	Party B shall, within 7 days upon the conclusion of this contract,
pay a down payment of two months’ rent, RMB 563,794 Yuan for the
period from November 1 to December 31, 2004.
	 
	5.3	 	Adjustment of Rent
	 
	 	 	If Party B decides to relet the said leasehold after expiration of
this contract, the rent charges shall be determined via negotiation
by both parties referring to the market price of the time.
	 
	5.4	 	Deposit

	5.4.1	 	Party B shall pay a deposit of RMB 563,794 Yuan,
equal to two months’ rent, within 7 days upon the conclusion
of this contract as the caution money for its performance of
this contract.
	 
	5.4.2	 	If Party B breaches any clause of this contract,
Party A may use or hold back all or part of the deposit to
offset the loss on Party A caused by Party B’s breach of the
contract based on provision of a payment voucher and loss
evidence. When the deposit cannot compensate for Party A’s
losses, Party B shall cover any balance. After Party A makes
any deduction from the deposit, Party B shall restore the
deposit to the amount specified in Clause 4.1 within 7 days
upon notice.
	 
	5.4.3	 	Upon expiration of the contract or its
termination via negotiation by and between both parties, if
party B has carried out all its duties as stipulated by this
contract, Party A shall return the capital of the deposit
(excluding the interest) to Party B within 7 days of
retrocession of the leasehold to Party A by Party B.

	5.5	 	Interest on Deferred Payment
	 
	 	 	If Party B defers any payment that should be paid to Party A as
stipulated by this contract, Party A shall have the right

 

 

	 	 	to collect an interest of 0.24% of the deferred payment for the
period since the due date of such deferred payment till the day
when Party B pays off the capital and interest of the deferred
payment and other relevant fees. The said interest shall not affect
any other right of Party A or its remedial measures under this
contract. If Party B fails to pay rent on time due to Party A’s
failure to produce invoices in time or any other reason caused by
Party A, Party B need not pay any interest or other relevant fees.

	5.6	 	Taxes and Fees
	 
	 	 	Party A shall pay all taxes and fees, including but not limited to,
those on housing property, land use in cities and towns, sales,
maintenance and construction of cities and additional tax on
education, and provide, upon reasonable requirements by Party B,
certificate of tax payment for housing property and land use in
cities and towns.
	 
	5.7	 	Type of Payment
	 
	 	 	Party B shall pay in time the rent and other payment to Party A in
check. Party A shall produce legitimate invoices to Party B before
receiving the check, and Party B shall pay on sight of invoices.
	 
	8.	 	Management of the Plaza and the Relevant Fees

	5.8.1	 	The management of the Plaza shall be conducted
by the property management company (hereinafter referred to as
the manager) entrusted by Party A or by Party A itself. Party
A shall guarantee implementation of duties by the manager
according to the contract concluded between the two, handle
the relationship between the manager and itself properly and
make sure that Party B shall not be obstructed from using the
leasehold properly during the lease term for any reason.
	 
	5.8.2	 	Party A warrants that the manager of the Plaza
shall be CB Richard Ellis or other property management
companies of the same service level. Otherwise Party B shall
have the right to reduce property management fees according to
the actual situation.

 

 

	5.8.3	 	The monthly charges on property management shall
be RMB 25 Yuan per sq.m (building area) and the monthly total
amount shall be RMB 56,743 Yuan. Party B shall pay RMB 113,486
Yuan no later than the 7th day every odd month as two months’
(the odd month’s and that of the next month) management fees.
Party B shall not deduct or offset management fees without any
justification.
	 
	5.8.4	 	Party B agrees to follow all regulations of the
property management (lessee manual) (see appendix 8), and pay
RMB 113,486 Yuan as deposit and another RMB 113,486 Yuan as
the management fees for the first two months to the manager
within 7 days upon conclusion of this contract. Party A shall
produce legitimate invoice for such payment in advance.
	 
	5.8.5	 	Within the lease term, Party B shall pay all
charges on electricity, water and other relevant fees
concerning the leasehold according to the public utility
account produced by Party A or the manager.
	 
	5.8.6	 	Within the lease term, Party B shall pay monthly
management fees and public utility fees to the manager within
7 days upon the manager’s notice of payment.
	 
	5.8.7	 	When this contract expires and Party B decides
not to relet the leasehold, if Party B has carried out all
duties as stipulated by this contract, Party A shall return
the deposit of management fees (excluding interest) to Party B
within 7 working days upon retrocession of the leasehold by
Party B.

	6.	 	Commitments & Rights

	6.1	 	Commitments & Rights of Party A

	6.1.1	 	Commitments
	 
	6.1.1.1	 	Party A pledges to acquire legally the Title Deed of Idea
International Plaza within a reasonable time and shall have
the right to let the leasehold, and if any

 

 

	 	 	damage occurs to Party B because Party A delays acquirement of
the Title Deed, Party A shall make full indemnity.

	6.1.1.2	 	Party A is legally incorporated and engaged in rental
services concerning foreign nationals as stated in its
registered scope of businesses.
	 
	6.1.1.3	 	Party A enjoys legal proprietorship of the leasehold leased
by Party B. If any damage occurs to Party B because of
incompleteness of relevant proprietary document of Party A,
Party A promises to make full compensation to Party B.
	 
	6.1.1.4	 	Party A guarantees that the leasehold complies with
national laws, regulations and relevant designing standard of
the trade, and meet the requirements of office use as well as
normal business operations of Party B
	 
	6.1.1.5	 	Party A shall transfer the leasehold to Party B for use as
stipulated by this contract within 5 working days upon
execution of this contract.
	 
	6.1.1.6	 	Party A shall provide all necessary documents (including
but not limited to its ID certificate, Title Deed, Certificate
of Right to Use State–Owned Land, certificate of payment,
certificate of tax payment, etc.) for the newly established
company or institution of Party B, or any company or
institution that relet the leasehold from Party B for the
convenience of registration and annual review.
	 
	6.1.1.7	 	Party A shall ensure that the manager keeps all public
equipment and systems in good condition and working order, the
public area clean and tidy, so as to provide Party B with good
environment for business and protect it from any disturbance.
	 
	6.1.1.8	 	Party A shall ensure that the manager undertakes the
greening of the public area of the Plaza, joint defense of
public security and its costs.

 

 

	6.1.1.9	 	Party A promises to provide the leasehold with the ceiling
shown in appendix 5, and supply the fitting materials free of
charge.
	 
	6.1.1.10	 	Within the lease term, Party A shall be responsible, as
stipulated by the state regulations on house management, for
the maintenance and repair of the main structure, walls,
drainage, pipelines and cables of the Plaza, and undertake
these costs.
	 
	6.1.1.11	 	Except for Force majeure or consequences resulting from
government departments, Party A guarantees to keep the
electricity, air–conditioning and telecommunication in good
condition and able for normal use upon execution of this
contract.
	 
	6.1.1.12	 	Party A shall not set up any facilities that may influence
the daylighting or scope of vision of the leasehold, including
but not limited to any scrolls, neon lamps, billboards, light
boxes, lighting devices, accompaniments and etc. Should Party
A, the property management company or any other third parties
conduct the aforesaid actions, the lessor shall assist the
lessee to solve the relevant disputes arising therefrom.
	 
	6.1.1.13	 	Party A shall provide Party B with 27 unfixed underground
parking lots at the cost of RMB 500 Yuan per month for each
and preserve 2 aboveground parking lots free of charge.
	 
	6.1.1.14	 	Party B shall pay the fees for extra use of air
conditioners to Party A in a fixed form with RMB 142,014 Yuan
per year on September 1 every year within the lease term.
Party A promises to supply 24–hour service of air conditioning
for the whole office area of Party B.
	 
	6.1.1.15	 	Party A or the property management company entrusted by
party A shall set up uniform corporation signboards for Party
B in the place designated by Party A or its entrusted property
management company in the

 

 

	 	 	elevator hall on Party B’s floor and in the entrance hall of
the Plaza, and Party B shall afford the reasonable cost of it.
	 
	6.1.1.16	 	Party A agrees to keep secrete the abovementioned
articles, and not to reveal them to any third party but Party
A and Party B as well as Party A’s lawyer and/or consultant
unless it is required by law, verdict of court, executive
order or permitted by Party B.
	 
	6.1.2	 	Rights
	 
	6.1.2.1	 	Party A shall enjoy the access to all passages and public
areas of the Plaza.
	 
	6.1.2.2	 	Party A shall enjoy the right to fixing, examining and
maintaining all devices, systems and piping of the Plaza.
	 
	6.1.2.3	 	Party A or its entrusted person, including the property
management company of the Plaza, shall have the right to send
persons into the leasehold for purposes of security, patrol,
repair or maintenance of the leasehold or the Plaza, with a
written notice given to Party B one day in advance. However,
Party A or its entrusted person, including the property
management company of the Plaza, may enter the leasehold
without Party B’s permission immediately in case of any
emergency or danger. In any case, Party A shall try its best
not to obstruct Party B in using the leasehold for business
purpose.
	 
	6.1.2.4	 	Party A shall have the right to transfer, within the valid
period of this contract, the Plaza or part of the Plaza,
including the leasehold, to a third party, and Party A shall
guarantee that the transferee shall undertake the commitment
and enjoy the rights of Party A designated by this contract.
	 
	6.1.2.5	 	Party A shall enjoy exclusively the right to decorate,
arrange, maintain, remove and change the signboards, placards,
posters and advertisements in any

 

 

	 	 	public area of the Plaza; Party B shall be mandated by Party A
to enjoy exclusively the right to decorate, arrange, maintain,
remove and change the signboards, placards, posters and
advertisements within the leasehold.
	 
	6.1.2.6	 	Party A shall have the right to change the name of the
Plaza without consulting Party B or compensating Party B for
its relevant losses; however, Party A shall give Party B a
written notice about the details of change one month in
advance.
	 
	6.1.2.7	 	Within the six months before the expiration of this
contract, Party A or its entrusted persons may enter the
leasehold anytime to inspect it provided that Party A or its
entrusted persons has/have noticed Party and is /are permitted
by Party B.
	 
	6.1.2.8	 	Party A shall have the right to set up any mortgage or any
other security right on the Plaza, including the leasehold and
any part of its equipment, within the valid period of this
contract without Party B’s permission. If the mortgage leads
to any transfer of property rights, Party A shall guarantee
that the transferee should undertake the commitments and enjoy
the rights of Party A designated by this contract.
	 
	6.1.2.9	 	Party A or its entrusted person, including the property
management company of the Plaza, may enter the leasehold
without Party B’s permission immediately in case of emergency
or danger. However, Party A shall try its best not to bring
losses to Party B.
	 
	6.1.2.10	 	Party A shall compensate Party B, other owners, users or
third parties for the losses resulting from Party A’s fault.
	 
	6.1.2.11	 	Party A’s not exercising or delaying exercising the rights
or remedies that it enjoys under this contract shall not make
renunciation; Party A’s exercising any individual right or
part of the rights shall not hamper it in further exercising
(other) rights or remedies.

 

 

	6.2	 	Commitments & Rights of Party B

	6.2.1	 	Commitments
	 
	6.2.1.1	 	Pay the rent, management fees & fees related to Party B to
Party A as stated during the period of validity of this
contract.
	 
	6.2.1.2	 	Be liable for its electricity fee, water fee, communication
fee, phone fee & other utility fees related to Party B within
the leasehold.
	 
	6.2.1.3	 	Upon signing the contract, before the start of the fitment,
Party B shall hand over all of the interior fitment drawings
to Party A or the manager commissioned by Party A. Party B
shall carry on the fitment in the leasehold following the
articles & restrictions of Fitment Manual (see Appendix 9)
given by Party A or the manager commissioned by Party A and
the drawings as well as specifications approved by Beijing
fire department in written form.
	 
	6.2.1.4	 	The fitment team employed by Party B shall be qualified
with construction certificate or related business operation
certificate & grade certificate approved by Administrative
department to carry on the interior fitment of the leasehold
in the Plaza.
	 
	6.2.1.5	 	Within the period of validity of this contract, Party B
shall inform Party A and its authorized person, including the
property management company, of the fitment work in written
form before fitment, which shall not be rejected by Party A
and its authorized person without any reason.
	 
	6.2.1.6	 	Be liable for compensating Party A, any other owner, user
or third party for the total losses due to Party B’s fault.
	 
	6.2.1.7	 	Use facilities provided by Party A in the leasehold &
utility facilities/system/equipment of the

 

 

	 	 	Plaza, including but not limited to, air conditioner/heating
equipment, fire fighting/alarming device, lighting equipment,
cable, wire, cabling lines) in a reasonable manner and protect
them from manmade damage.
	 
	6.2.1.8	 	Any damage resulted due to Party B’s mistakes in the
leasehold shall be informed timely by Party B to Party A or
the property management company. If Party B fails to repair or
repair completely the aforesaid damages within one month since
the date when receiving written notice from Party A, Party A
shall have the right to arrange repair itself with the cost
incurred payable by Party B and provide Party B with the
relevant payment invoice.
	 
	6.2.1.9	 	Party B shall adopt reasonable measures to prevent the
leasehold from being damaged by natural disaster, such as
rainstorm and sand-blown wind. Should the leasehold suffer
such damages, Party B shall timely inform Party A or the
manager.
	 
	6.2.1.10	 	Should the leasehold suffer any structural damage due to
negligence or mistakes by Party B, Party B shall restore it to
the state before the damage within one month since the date
when receiving written notice from Party A or the property
management company.
	 
	6.2.1.11	 	Agree that Party A or the manager commissioned by Party A
shall have the right to enter and carry out routine
maintenance or emergency repair in the leasehold, and inform
Party B of the routine maintenance in advance only.
	 
	6.2.1.12	 	Timely inform Party A or the manager commissioned by Party
A of the property damage & staff injury in the leasehold.
	 
	6.2.1.13	 	Without written approval of the Party A or the property
management company commissioned by Party A, Party B shall not
install or change the equipment, partition and exceed the
load-bearing standard of the floor of the leasehold.

 

 

	6.2.1.14	 	Party B shall not make any noise or conduct any action or
affair in the leasehold that may bother other people in or out
of the Plaza.
	 
	6.2.1.15	 	Party B shall not carry on any activities that do harm to
Party A or other lessees in the Plaza, or deal with any
business/conduct that may damage the image of the Plaza as an
office mansion. Party B shall not carry on illegal operations
in the leasehold.
	 
	6.2.1.16	 	Party B shall not store in the leasehold any dangerous
goods that endanger the plaza or any other people, including
but not limited to, weapon, cartridge, saltpeter, gunpowder,
kerosene or any other inflammable, explosive, dangerous goods
or that are against the law.
	 
	6.2.1.17	 	Party B shall not manufacture or store goods/commodities
in the leasehold except for a small amount of
goods/commodities used as sample or displaying articles
related to Party B’s business or activities with written
approval obtained from Party A or the manager commissioned by
Party A in advance.
	 
	6.2.1.18	 	Party B shall not raise any poultry or pet in the
leasehold.
	 
	6.2.1.19	 	Party B shall not itself, or allow others to carry out any
activities making the insurance of the Plaza completely or
partly ineffective or causing the rise of the insurance fees.
Should Party B breach this sub-clause and make Party A have to
insure again or suffer rise of insurance, Party B shall refund
Party A the extra insurance fees and any other related
expenses induced at once.
	 
	6.2.1.20	 	Party B shall not use public areas such as the Plaza
lobby, elevator, stairway, passage, great hall, stairway
platform, display window etc. to pile, discard or leave
chests, furniture, garbage and any other staff, causing
inconvenience or obstruct to other lessees or users of the
Plaza.

 

 

	6.2.1.21	 	Party B shall not set up, display or exhibit any
advertisement, signboard settings in the Plaza out of the
leasehold, except that the locations are approved by Party A
and the Plaza manager in written form in advance.
	 
	6.2.1.22	 	Party B shall comply with the related regulations of
Lessee Manual (see Appendix 8) prepared by Party A at the same
time after signing this contract.
	 
	6.2.1.23	 	Guarantee that effective commercial license plate,
operation license, authorization or permit issued by relevant
government department or bureau are on hand before commencing
its business operation inside the leasehold.
	 
	6.2.1.24	 	Upon expiration of the contract, Party B shall keep the
office area in applicable state and retrocede it to Party A.
Whether the public area is to restore to its original
condition or not shall be determined via negotiation by both
parties.
	 
	6.2.1.25	 	If Party B decides to extend the lease after expiry of
this contract, it shall inform Party A with written notice 6
months before the expiry date of this contract. Party B has
the priority to re-let the leasehold under equal price
condition.
	 
	6.2.1.26	 	Party B shall empty out and move away from the leasehold
within 14 days after expiry date of this contract and return
all keys of the leasehold upon expiration or early termination
of this contract.
	 
	6.2.1.27	 	Perform other obligations on lessee regulated by the
national laws.
	 
	6.2.1.28	 	Except for written approval of Party A, such not be laid
aside without any righteous reason, Party B shall not share
all or partial of the leasehold with any third parties via
transfer of the contract or sublease or any other means.

 

 

	6.2.1.29	 	During the lease period under this contract, if Party B
normally uses leasehold and enjoys property management service
as stated in the contract, it shall not ask for deduction to
any of the fees as stipulated in the contract from Party A or
the property management company.
	 
	6.2.1.30	 	If Party B intends to install any air conditioning
equipment in the leasehold for its own use, an approval must
be obtained from Party A and the property management company
in written form. Party A shall not reject such intention
without any reason and Party B shall be liable for any
expenses arising therefrom.
	 
	6.2.1.31	 	Party B agrees to keep secrete the abovementioned
articles, and not to reveal them to any third party but Party
A and Party B as well as Party B’s lawyer and/or consultant
unless it is required by law, verdict of court, executive
order or permitted by Party B.
	 
	6.2.2	 	Rights:
	 
	6.2.2.1	 	Party A agrees that Party B may share all or partial of the
leasehold with its affiliated institutions with the subject of
the lease remaining unchanged, which shall enjoy the equal
rights of a lessee as Party B, including Beijing Sina Internet
Information Service Co., Ltd, Beijing Sina Interactive
Advertising Co., Ltd, Beijing Sina Internet Technology Service
Co., Ltd, Beijing Starvi Online Cultural Development Co., Ltd,
Starvi Online Internet Science & Technology (Beijing) Co.,
Ltd, Beijing Xingchao Xunjie Information Technology Co., Ltd,
Beijing Sina Wuxian Advertising Co., Ltd, Beijing Sina
Wireless Information Technology Co., Ltd, Beijing Miaoxun
Information Service Co., Ltd and any other institution that
Party B has informed the Party A in the written form in
advance.
	 
	6.2.2.2	 	Party B shall have the right to use the leasehold at will
according to aforesaid articles set forth by this

 

 

	 	 	contract within its validity period free from any illegal
interference from Party A.
	 
	6.2.2.3	 	Should Party B is unsatisfied with the service of the
manager, it may make a complaint to Party A under reasonable
condition, and Party A shall urge the manager to improve as
soon as possible.
	 
	6.2.2.4	 	Party B shall have the rights to use any public facilities
within the Plaza.
	 
	6.2.2.5	 	Party B shall enjoy the rights to use the fitment materials
provided by Party A free of charge to lessees accordingly (See
Appendix 5).
	 
	6.2.2.6	 	Party B shall have the priority to re-let the leasehold on
the 17th floor under the equal conditions. Party A shall give
notice to Party B 15 days in advance of leasing the aforesaid
leasehold to any third party, and Party B shall give an
explicit response for its intention to re-let the aforesaid
leasehold from Party A within 15 days.

	7.	 	Modification & Termination of the Contract

	7.1	 	Party A and Party B may revise, modify or terminate the
contract in advance by unanimous agreement in written form via
negotiation.
	 
	7.2	 	Should any force majeure stated in the Article 9 of this
contract occur that makes the performance of this contract
impossible, both Parties may terminate the contract in advance via
negotiations.
	 
	7.3	 	Party A shall have the right to terminate or rescind this
contract unilaterally without rendering any indemnification to Party
B if any of the following situations occurs to Party B. The written
notice of termination from Party A shall become effective after 30
days since its delivery date by Party A:

 

 

	7.3.1	 	Conduct business operations against the laws or
regulations of PRC.
	 
	7.3.2	 	Apply the leasehold for other purposes without
authorization of Party A.
	 
	7.3.3	 	Relet all or partial of the leasehold to any
third party or transfer or share the leasehold to/with any
third party without written approval of Party A.
	 
	7.3.4	 	Fail to pay the rent as stipulated in the
Article 4 and to make such payment after 14 days since the
date when receiving written notice from Party A.
	 
	7.3.5	 	Breach its obligations specified in Clause 2,
Article 6 of this contract or any other obligation stated in
the contract and fail to make any corrections to its breaching
in 14 days since the date when receiving written notice from
Party A

	7.4	 	Party B may terminate or rescind this contract unilaterally
by informing Party A in written form 30 days in advance without
rendering any indemnification to Party A if any of the following
situations occurs, in which case, Party A shall refund the paid
rent, rent deposit, property management fees, property management
deposit and any other refundable fee to Party B:

	7.4.1	 	Party A makes severe mistakes or takes
liabilities for mistakes in its management so that Party B
cannot carry out business operations.
	 
	7.4.2	 	Party A breaches its obligations regulated in
Clause 1, Article 6 of this contract or any other obligation
stated in the contract and fails to make any corrections to
its breaching in 14 days since the date when receiving written
notice from Party B.
	 
	7.4.3	 	The leasehold cannot be normally used for 14
days due to other reasons not caused by Party B.
	 
	7.4.4	 	 

	8.	 	Breaching & Indemnification Liabilities

 

 

	8.1	 	If Party B fails to pay the rent, management fees or any
other fees in time as stipulated in the contract, Party A may send a
written notice asking Party B to pay back within 14 days. If Party B
fails to pay back those payments within 14 days since the date when
receiving the written notice from Party A, Party A shall have the
right to rescind the contract and ask Party B to compensate for the
losses and relevant interests arising therefrom.
	 
	8.2	 	Should Party B apply the leasehold for other purposes without
any authorization from Party A, Party A shall have the right to ask
Party B to make corrections within a reasonable term appointed. If
Party B fails to make corrections complying with the contract, Party
A shall have the right to rescind the contract and held Party B
responsible for the indemnification according to this Clause.
	 
	8.3	 	Within the lease term of this contract, if Party B leases
or sub-leases the leasehold without written authorization from Party
A in advance, Party A shall have the right to rescind this contract
and Party B shall eliminate the influence caused by the third party
to Party A within an appointed term.
	 
	8.4	 	If Party B is subject to bankrupt or liquidation, Party A
may rescind the contract. Under such circumstances, Party A shall
not ask Party B for other expenses according to Clause 9, Article 8
of this contract after deducting the deposit & property management
deposit of Party B.
	 
	8.5	 	Any party who breaches the contract fails to make corrections
to its breaching within 14 days since the date when receiving the
written notice from the other party, the non–breaching party shall
ask it for the indemnification and rescind the contract.
	 
	8.6	 	Party B shall empty out and move away from the leasehold at
the expiry date or within 14 days after termination date of this
contract and keep the office area in applicable state after
inspection and confirmation by Party A and retrocede it at the time
returning every key of the leasehold to Party A.

 

 

	8.7	 	In case that Party B doesn’t retrocede the leasehold in
accordance with the aforesaid clause, Party A shall have the right
to empty out the leasehold and restore it to its original condition.
The reasonable expenses occurred to Party A due to the aforesaid
reason, including but not limited to the expenses induced from
emptying out the leasehold, restoring to its original condition &
keeping the stuff left in the leasehold by Party B in other places
shall be payable by Party B, and Party A shall provide Party B with
relevant invoices for the actual expenses. The Party A shall have
the right to deduct the aforesaid expenses from Party B’s deposit,
and Party B shall make up for the balance at once when receiving the
notice from Party A if the deposit is insufficient. If Party B
continues to use the leasehold before Party A exerts the aforesaid
right, Party B shall pay the rent for the occupied period to Party A
on the basis of the rent stipulated in this contract.
	 
	8.8	 	After moving out of the leasehold and restoring it to its
original conditions, Party B shall inform Party A to proceed the
inspection and both parties sign a Transfer Sheet on the basis of
inspection condition of the leasehold. Unless Party A stipulates in
the sheet that it agrees to accept the leasehold, the sheet shall
only act as an account of the status of the leasehold but not be
considered as that Party A has accepted Party B’s retrocession and
the leasehold. In the period when Party B handles the existing
problems listed in Transfer Sheet, it shall be considered as that
Party B doesn’t retrocede the leasehold as stipulated in the
contract and Party A enjoys the right stated in Clause 7, Article 8
of this contract.
	 
	8.9	 	Except those reasons for early termination stipulated by
this contract, Party A shall not refund the paid deposit to Party B
if the early termination occurs due to the reasons caused
unilaterally by Party B without written approval of Party A in
advance. If such circumstance occurs within 2 years of the lease
term, Party B shall make up for the free rent it has enjoyed. Party
A shall have the right to make other lease contract for the said
leasehold in order to lessen the losses caused by the violation of
Party B.

	9.	 	Force Majeure

 

 

	9.1	 	Force Majeure refers to those severe natural disasters and
those that both parties of this contract cannot foresee, or control
or avoid its process or results. The affected party shall bear no
responsibilities for not undertaking its obligations of this
contract due to any force majeure.
	 
	9.2	 	The party that can not undertake all or partial of its
obligations or can not undertake them in time due to any force majeure
shall give notice of the circumstances to the other party timely and
shall provide legal certifications that are issued by the relevant
institutions for the force majeure within a reasonable time.
	 
	9.3	 	In case that any force majeure occurs in the leasehold so as to
make it out of use or become a leasehold shut down by the property
management office, or the leasehold declared as dangerous structure by
the government is not due to the reason that Party A shall control and
is not the result that Party B fails to perform its obligations stated
in the contract, the rent shall be deducted in proportion to the extent
of the useless and free from payment until the leasehold can be used
again, but Party A shall neither have responsibilities to restore the
leasehold to its original conditions, nor have responsibilities to
render indemnification to Party B during the useless period of the said
leasehold. If the leasehold remains to be useless for a consecutive
period of 20 days or an accumulative period of 30 days, any party shall
rescind the contract with written notice to the other party, which
shall not affect the rights & responsibilities that bound to both
parties before the rescission.

	10.	 	Settlement Of Dispute & Governing Law

	10.1	 	Laws and regulations of PRC shall be applied for the conclusion,
effectiveness, performances, explanations and settlement of disputes
concerning this contract.
	 
	10.2	 	Both parties shall seek settlement for any disputes over the
contract via negotiation, which if fails, any party shall submit the
disputes to the Beijing Arbitrary Commission for settlement that
will carry out arbitration pursuant to the

 

 

	 	 	present arbitrary rules in Beijing. The arbitrament is final with
the same binding force to both parties.
	 
	10.3	 	During the arbitration of the contract, the contract shall
continue to be effective with the rest articles and clauses except
for the disputed articles.
	 
	10.4	 	The contract is made in Chinese and the Chinese version shall
be the original.

	11.	 	Miscellaneous

	11.1	 	Contract registration

	11.1.1	 	This contract shall be registered to Beijing Real Estate
Administration after being signed by both parties.
	 
	11.1.2	 	Party B shall assist Party A in the registration of the contract
to the relevant government department after signing the contract
pursuant to the relevant laws and regulations of Beijing with all
the relevant charges payable by Party A. Should Party A fail to
conduct the registration and cause any loss to Party B, Party A
shall be held liable for such losses to Party B.

	11.2	 	All appendixes of this contract shall have the same legal
binding force as this contract.
	 
	11.3	 	This contract shall become effective on the date of being
signed and sealed by both parties.

This agreement is signed by and between both parties in Beijing, China on April
16, 2004.

 

 

	 	 	 
	Party A: Beijing Zhongwu Ideal Real Estate Development Co., Ltd
	 
	 	 
	Authorized Representative:
	 
	 	 
	Signature/Seal             /s/                            

	 
	 
	 	 
	Party B: Beijing Sina Information Technology Co., Ltd
	 
	 	 
	Authorized Representative:
	 
	 	 
	Signature/Seal             /s/<PAGE>

                                                              Exhibit 10.2(1)(a)

                                BELO SAVINGS PLAN

                As Amended and Restated Effective August 1, 2004

<PAGE>

                                BELO SAVINGS PLAN

      Belo Corp., a Delaware corporation, amends and completely restates the
Belo Savings Plan as provided herein, generally effective as of August 1, 2004.
The Plan is a profit sharing plan with a cash or deferred arrangement intended
to qualify under Code section 401(a) and to meet the requirements of Code
section 401(k). The Company has entered into trust agreements with Fidelity
Management Trust Company and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. that provide for the
investment and reinvestment of the assets of the Plan. Effective January 1,
1998, the Journal Qualified Compensation Deferral Plan, the Journal Broadcasting
401(k) Plan, the Copley/Colony, Inc. Retirement Plan, the Press-Enterprise Tax
Deferred Savings Plan and the Gleaner and Journal Publishing Co. 401(k)
Retirement Plan, each of which is a qualified defined contribution plan
sponsored by a direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, were
merged with and into the Plan. The Copley/Colony, Inc. Retirement Plan holds
benefits for certain deferred vested participants and does not cover any active
employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

      Individuals who were Employees on June 30, 2000, and who were eligible to
participate in The G. B. Dealey Retirement Plan (the "Pension Plan") or who
became eligible to participate in the Pension Plan upon completing the Pension
Plan eligibility requirements were offered an election to waive participation in
and cease accruing benefits under the Pension Plan, generally effective as of
June 30, 2000. Those Employees who elected to cease accruing benefits or waive
participation in the Pension Plan are eligible to receive enhanced benefits
under this Plan. In addition, Employees hired or rehired on or after July 1,
2000, who otherwise satisfy the Plan's eligibility requirements are eligible to
receive the enhanced benefits provided under the Plan. Employees who continue to
accrue benefits under the Pension Plan on or after July 1, 2000, are not
eligible for enhanced benefits under the Plan. The foregoing changes did not
apply to Employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement with the
Providence Newspaper Guild ("Guild Employees"). Guild Employees continued to be
eligible to participate in and accrue benefits under the Pension Plan after June
30, 2000, in accordance with the terms of the Pension Plan applicable to Guild
Employees. Guild Employees participated in the Journal-Guild 401(k) Plan and
were not eligible to participate in the Plan.

      Effective July 31, 2004, contributions to the Journal-Guild 401(k) Plan
will be completely discontinued, and Guild Employees will be eligible to
participate in the Plan. Individuals who are Guild Employees immediately prior
to August 1, 2004, have been offered the choice of either (i) participating in
and accruing benefits under the provisions of the Pension Plan generally
applicable to Employees other than Guild Employees or (ii) ceasing to accrue
benefits under the Pension Plan altogether effective July 31, 2004. Those Guild
Employees who cease to accrue benefits under the Pension Plan altogether and
Guild Employees hired or rehired on or after August 1, 2004, will be eligible to
receive enhanced benefits under this Plan, while those Guild Employees who
continue to participate in and accrue benefits under the Pension Plan will not
be eligible for such enhancements.

      Except as otherwise specifically provided in the Plan, the provisions of
the Plan as amended and restated herein will apply to each Employee who
completes an Hour of Service after July 31, 2004; provided, however, that an
Employee's benefit which is protected from being decreased or eliminated in any
respect under Code section 411(d)(6), and the Employee's

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vested interest in such benefit, will not be less under the terms of the Plan
set forth below than under the terms of the Plan as in effect on July 31, 2004.
In addition, the benefit of each Participant who terminated employment on or
before July 31, 2004, and who did not again become an Employee after that date
will be determined under the terms of the Plan in effect on July 31, 2004.

      Words and phrases with initial capital letters used throughout the Plan
are defined in Article 1.

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                                TABLE OF CONTENTS

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ARTICLE 1    DEFINITIONS...................................................................................     1

ARTICLE 2    PARTICIPATION.................................................................................    10

ARTICLE 3    CONTRIBUTIONS.................................................................................    14

ARTICLE 4    ALLOCATIONS TO PARTICIPANTS' ACCOUNTS.........................................................    19

ARTICLE 5    VESTING.......................................................................................    21

ARTICLE 6    DISTRIBUTIONS TO PARTICIPANTS.................................................................    23

ARTICLE 7    DISTRIBUTIONS TO BENEFICIARIES................................................................    30

ARTICLE 8    PROVISIONS REGARDING COMPANY STOCK............................................................    32

ARTICLE 9    ADMINISTRATION OF THE PLAN AND TRUST AGREEMENT................................................    33

ARTICLE 10   LIMITATIONS ON CONTRIBUTIONS AND ALLOCATIONS TO PARTICIPANTS' ACCOUNTS........................    37

ARTICLE 11   RESTRICTIONS ON DISTRIBUTIONS TO PARTICIPANTS AND BENEFICIARIES...............................    50

ARTICLE 12   TOP-HEAVY PROVISIONS..........................................................................    52

ARTICLE 13   ADOPTION OF PLAN BY CONTROLLED GROUP MEMBERS..................................................    57

ARTICLE 14   AMENDMENT OF THE PLAN.........................................................................    58

ARTICLE 15   TERMINATION, PARTIAL TERMINATION AND COMPLETE DISCONTINUANCE OF CONTRIBUTIONS.................    59

ARTICLE 16   MISCELLANEOUS.................................................................................    60
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                                       (i)

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                                    ARTICLE 1

                                   DEFINITIONS

      1.1   "Account" means the records, including subaccounts, maintained by
the Committee in the manner provided in Article 4 to determine the interest of
each Participant in the assets of the Plan and may refer to any or all of the
Participant's Deferral Contribution Account, Matching Contribution Account,
Profit Sharing Account and Rollover Account.

      1.2   "Belo Stock Fund" means the investment fund established under
Section 3.6, the assets of which consist of shares of Company Stock.

      1.3   "Beneficiary" means the one or more persons or entities entitled to
receive distribution of a Participant's interest in the Plan in the event of his
death as provided in Article 7.

      1.4   "Board of Directors" or "Board" means the Board of Directors of the
Company.

      1.5   "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time
to time.

      1.6   "Committee" or "Administrative Committee" means the Committee
appointed under Article 9.

      1.7 "Company" means Belo Corp., a Delaware corporation (formerly A. H.
Belo Corporation).

      1.8   "Company Stock" means Series A Common Stock and Series B Common
Stock.

      1.9   "Compensation" means the base pay, overtime pay, shift differential
pay, premium pay, bonuses (including termination bonuses paid in a lump sum at
termination of employment) and commissions paid to an Employee by the
Participating Employers for services performed for the Participating Employers,
excluding (i) any awards (other than annual incentive compensation awards),
whether paid in cash, Company Stock or any other medium, under the Belo 2004
Executive Compensation Plan or any other long term incentive compensation plan
and (ii) any other form of remuneration. In addition, Compensation includes any
contributions made by the Participating Employers on behalf of an Employee
pursuant to a deferral election under the Plan or under any other employee
benefit plan containing a cash or deferred arrangement under Code section 401(k)
and any amounts that would have been received as cash but for an election to
receive benefits under a cafeteria plan meeting the requirements of Code section
125. The annual Compensation of an Employee taken into account for any purpose
will not exceed $200,000 for any Plan Year ending before January 1, 1994, as
adjusted in regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and will
not exceed $150,000 for any Plan Year beginning after December 31, 1993, and
ending before January 1, 2002, as adjusted in regulations prescribed by the
Secretary of the Treasury. The annual Compensation of an Employee taken into
account for any purpose will not exceed $200,000 for any Plan Year beginning
after December 31, 2001, as adjusted for cost-of-living increases in accordance
with Code section 401(a)(17). For Plan Years beginning before January 1, 1997,
for purposes of

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applying the $200,000 and $150,000 limits set forth in the preceding sentence,
if an Employee is a Highly Compensated Employee (as defined in Section 10.2(n))
who is either (i) a 5-percent owner, determined in accordance with Code section
414(q) and the Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder or (ii) one of the 10
most highly compensated Employees ranked on the basis of Compensation paid by
the Controlled Group during the year, such Highly Compensated Employee and the
members of his family (as hereafter defined) will be treated as a single
employee and the Compensation of each member of the family will be aggregated
with the Compensation of the Highly Compensated Employee. The limitation on
Compensation will be allocated among such Highly Compensated Employee and his
family members in proportion to each individual's Compensation. For purposes of
this Section, the term "family" means an Employee's spouse and any lineal
descendants who are under age 19 at the end of the Plan Year in question. The
annual Compensation of an Employee who is covered by a collective bargaining
agreement will also be subject to any applicable limit on the amount of such
Compensation that may be taken into account for purposes of the Plan.

      1.10  "Controlled Group" means the Company and all other corporations,
trades and businesses, the employees of which, together with employees of the
Company, are required by the first sentence of subsection (b), by subsection
(c), by subsection (m) or by subsection (o) of Code section 414 to be treated as
if they were employed by a single employer.

      1.11  "Controlled Group Member" means each corporation or unincorporated
trade or business that is or was a member of the Controlled Group, but only
during such period as it is or was such a member.

      1.12  "Deferral Contribution" means the amount of a Participant's
Compensation that he elects to have contributed to the Plan by the Participating
Employers rather than paid to him directly in cash.

      1.13  "Deferral Contribution Account" means the Account established for
each Participant, the balance of which is attributable to the Participant's
Deferral Contributions and earnings and losses of the Trust Fund with respect to
such contributions.

      1.14  "Effective Date" means August 1, 2004.

      1.15  "Employee" means any individual who is: (i) employed by any
Controlled Group Member if their relationship is, for federal income tax
purposes, that of employer and employee, or (ii) "a leased employee" of a
Controlled Group Member within the meaning of Code section 414(n)(2) but only
for purposes of the requirements of Code section 414(n)(3).

      For purposes of this Section, a "leased employee" means any person who,
pursuant to an agreement between a Controlled Group Member and any other person
("leasing organization") has performed services for the Controlled Group Member
on a substantially full-time basis for a period of at least one year and such
services are performed under the primary direction or control of the Controlled
Group Member. Contributions or benefits provided a leased employee by the
leasing organization which are attributable to services performed for a
Controlled Group Member will be treated as provided by the Controlled Group
Member. A leased employee will not be considered an Employee of a Controlled
Group Member, however,

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if (a) leased employees do not constitute more than 20 percent of the Controlled
Group Member's nonhighly compensated work force (within the meaning of Code
section 414(n)(5)(C)(ii)), and (b) such leased employee is covered by a money
purchase plan maintained by the leasing organization that provides (i) a
nonintegrated employer contribution rate of at least 10 percent of Compensation,
(ii) immediate participation and (iii) full and immediate vesting.

      1.16  "ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,
as amended from time to time.

      1.17  "Guild Employee" means an Employee who is covered by a collective
bargaining agreement with the Providence Newspaper Guild.

      1.18  "Hour of Service" means each hour credited in accordance with the
following rules:

            (a)   Credit for Services Performed. An Employee will be credited
with one Hour of Service for each hour for which he is paid, or entitled to
payment, by one or more Controlled Group Members for the performance of duties.

            (b)   Credit for Periods in Which No Services Are Performed. An
Employee will be credited with one Hour of Service for each hour for which he is
paid, or entitled to payment, by one or more Controlled Group Members on account
of a period of time during which no duties are performed (irrespective of
whether the employment relationship has terminated); except that (i) no more
than 501 Hours of Service will be credited under this subsection (b) to an
Employee on account of any single continuous period during which he performs no
duties (whether or not such period occurs in a single Plan Year), (ii) an hour
for which an Employee is directly or indirectly paid, or entitled to payment, on
account of a period during which no duties are performed will not be credited to
the Employee if the payment is made or due under a plan maintained solely for
the purpose of complying with applicable workers' compensation or unemployment
compensation or disability insurance laws, and (iii) Hours of Service will not
be credited for a payment which solely reimburses an Employee for medical or
medically related expenses incurred by the Employee. For purposes of this
subsection (b), an Employee will be credited with Hours of Service on the basis
of his regularly scheduled working hours per week (or per day if he is paid on a
daily basis) or, in the case of an Employee without a regular work schedule, on
the basis of 40 Hours of Service per week (or 8 Hours of Service per day if he
is paid on a daily basis) for each week (or day) during the period of time
during which no duties are performed; except that an Employee will not be
credited with a greater number of Hours of Service for a period during which no
duties are performed than the number of hours for which he is regularly
scheduled for the performance of duties during the period or, in the case of an
Employee without a regular work schedule, on the basis of 40 Hours of Service
per week (or 8 Hours of Service per day if he is paid on a daily basis).

            (c)   Credit for Back Pay. An Employee will be credited with one
Hour of Service for each hour for which back pay, irrespective of mitigation of
damages, has been either awarded or agreed to by one or more Controlled Group
Members; except that an hour will not be credited under both subsection (a) or
(b), as the case may be, and this subsection (c), and Hours

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of Service credited under this subsection (c) with respect to periods described
in subsection (b) will be subject to the limitations and provisions under
subsection (b).

            (d)   Credit for Certain Absences. If an Employee is absent from
work on or after the Effective Date for any period by reason of the pregnancy of
the Employee, by reason of the birth of a child of the Employee, by reason of
the placement of a child with the Employee, or for purposes of caring for a
child for a period beginning immediately following the birth or placement of
that child, the Employee will be credited with Hours of Service (solely for the
purpose of determining whether he has a One Year Break in Service under the
Plan) equal to (i) the number of Hours of Service which otherwise would normally
have been credited to him but for his absence, or (ii) if the number of Hours of
Service under clause (i) is not determinable, 8 Hours of Service per normal
workday of the absence, provided, however, that the total number of Hours of
Service credited to an Employee under this subsection (d) by reason of any
pregnancy, birth or placement will not exceed 501 Hours of Service. Such Hours
of Service will be credited (i) only in the one-year computation period
(determined under Section 1.35) in which the absence from work begins, if the
Employee would be prevented from incurring a One Year Break in Service in such
period solely because the period of absence is treated as Hours of Service
pursuant to this subsection (d), or (ii) in any other case, in the immediately
following one-year computation period. Hours of Service will not be credited to
an Employee under this subsection (d) unless the Employee furnishes to the
Committee such timely information as the Committee may reasonably require to
establish that the Employee's absence from work is for a reason specified in
this subsection (d) and the number of days for which there was such an absence.

            (e)   Manner of Counting Hours. No hour will be counted more than
once or be counted as more than one Hour of Service even though the Employee may
receive more than straight-time pay for it. With respect to Employees whose
compensation is not determined on the basis of certain amounts for each hour
worked during a given period and for whom hours are not required to be counted
and recorded by any federal law (other than ERISA), Hours of Service will be
credited on the basis of 10 Hours of Service daily, 45 Hours of Service weekly,
95 Hours of Service semi-monthly, or 190 Hours of Service monthly, if the
Employee's compensation is determined on a daily, weekly, semi-monthly or
monthly basis, respectively, for each period in which the Employee would be
credited with at least one Hour of Service under this section. Except as
otherwise provided in subsection (d), Hours of Service will be credited to
eligibility and vesting computation periods in accordance with the provisions of
29 C.F.R. Section 2530.200b-2, which provisions are incorporated in this Plan by
reference.

      1.19  "Matching Contribution Account" means the Account established for
each Participant, the balance of which is attributable to Participating Employer
matching contributions made pursuant to Article 3 and earnings and losses of the
Trust Fund with respect to such contributions.

      1.20  "One Year Break in Service" means a period of at least 12
consecutive months in which an Employee is absent from service. A One Year Break
in Service will begin on the Employee's termination date (as defined in Section
1.35) and will end on the day on which the Employee again performs an Hour of
Service for a Controlled Group Member.

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            If an Employee who is absent from work with a Controlled Group
Member because of (i) the Employee's pregnancy, (ii) the birth of the Employee's
child, (iii) the placement of a child with the Employee in connection with the
Employee's adoption of the child, or (iv) caring for such child immediately
following such birth or placement, will be absent for such reason beyond the
first anniversary of the first date of his absence, his period of absence,
solely for purposes of preventing a One Year Break in Service, will commence on
the second anniversary of the first day of his absence from work. The period of
absence from work between the first and second anniversaries of the first date
of his absence from work will not be taken into account in determining whether
the Employee has completed a Year of Service. The provisions of this paragraph
will not apply to an Employee unless the Employee furnishes to the Committee
such timely information that the Committee may reasonably require to establish
(i) that the absence from work is for one of the reasons specified in this
paragraph and (ii) the number of days for which there was such an absence.

            Notwithstanding the foregoing, if an Employee is classified as a
part-time Employee in accordance with standard personnel practices of his
Participating Employer and is subject to the 1,000 Hour of Service requirement
of Section 1.35, the term `One Year Break in Service' means a 12 consecutive
month computation period (determined under Section 1.35) in which the Employee
fails to complete more than 500 Hours of Service.

      1.21  "Participant" means an Employee or former Employee who has met the
applicable eligibility requirements of Article 2 and who has not yet received a
distribution of the entire amount of his vested interest in the Plan. In
addition, the term "Participant" will include any other Employee of a
Participating Employer who makes a Rollover Contribution, provided, however,
that the provisions of Article 3 (other than Section 3.7) and Article 10 will
not apply to such Employee until he has met the applicable eligibility
requirements of Article 2.

      1.22  "Participating Employer" means each Controlled Group Member set
forth on Appendix A and any other Controlled Group Member or organizational unit
of the Company or a Controlled Group Member which is designated as a
Participating Employer under the Plan by the Board of Directors.

      1.23  "Pension Investment Committee" means the Belo Pension Investment
Committee.

      1.24  "Plan" means the Belo Savings Plan set forth herein, as amended from
time to time.

      1.25  "Plan Year" means the period with respect to which the records of
the Plan are maintained, which will be the 12-month period beginning on January
1 and ending on December 31.

      1.26  "Profit Sharing Account" means the Account established for each
Participant, the balance of which is attributable to Participating Employer
profit sharing contributions made pursuant to Article 3 and earnings and losses
of the Trust Fund with respect to such contributions.

      1.27  "Qualified Plan" means an employee benefit plan that is qualified
under Code section 401(a).

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      1.28  "Rollover Account" means the Account established for each
Participant, the balance of which is attributable to the Participant's rollover
contributions made pursuant to Article 3 and earnings and losses of the Trust
Fund with respect to such contributions.

      1.29  "Series A Common Stock" means the Series A Common Stock, par value
$1.67 per share, of the Company.

      1.30  "Series B Common Stock" means the Series B Common Stock, par value
$1.67 per share, of the Company.

      1.31  "Trust Agreement" means the agreement or agreements executed by the
Company and the Trustee which establishes a trust fund to provide for the
investment, reinvestment, administration and distribution of contributions made
under the Plan and the earnings thereon, as amended from time to time.

      1.32  "Trust Fund" means the assets of the Plan held by the Trustee
pursuant to the Trust Agreement.

      1.33  "Trustee" means the one or more individuals or organizations who
have entered into the Trust Agreement as Trustee, and any duly appointed
successor.

      1.34  "Valuation Date" means the date with respect to which the Trustee
determines the fair market value of the assets comprising the Trust Fund or any
portion thereof. The assets of the Trust Fund will be valued as of the close of
business on each day on which the New York Stock Exchange is open for trading.

      1.35  "Year of Service" means each period of 365 days (determined by
aggregating periods of service that are not consecutive) beginning on the date
an Employee is first credited with an Hour of Service (or is again credited with
an Hour of Service following his reemployment) and ending on the earlier of (i)
the date on which the Employee quits, retires, is discharged or dies or (ii) the
first anniversary of the date on which the Employee is absent from service with
a Controlled Group Member for any other reason, such as vacation, holiday,
sickness, disability, leave of absence or layoff (the earlier of such dates is
hereafter referred to as the Employee's "termination date"). An Employee's
period of service for purposes of determining a Year of Service will include
each period in which the Employee is absent from service for less than 12 months
(measured from the Employee's termination date) and any periods during which he
is in the service of the armed forces of the United States and his reemployment
rights are guaranteed by law, provided he returns to employment with a
Controlled Group Member within the time such rights are guaranteed.

            Notwithstanding the foregoing, if an Employee is classified as a
part-time or irregularly scheduled Employee in accordance with standard
personnel practices of his Participating Employer, the term `Year of Service'
means, solely for purposes of satisfying the eligibility requirements of Section
2.1, the completion of 1,000 Hours of Service during the 12 consecutive months
beginning on the date the Employee first performs an Hour of Service, or during
the 12 consecutive months beginning on any anniversary of such date.

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            If a part-time Employee who is subject to the 1,000 Hour of Service
requirement of this Section transfers to full-time status, his service for the
computation period in which the transfer occurs (but not for prior computation
periods) will be determined under the elapsed time method, or if more favorable
to the Employee, on the basis of his Hours of Service completed as of the date
of such transfer. If a full-time Employee transfers to part-time status and
becomes subject to the 1,000 Hour of Service requirement of this Section, he
will receive credit for service under the elapsed time method through the date
of the transfer, and his service during the computation period in which the
transfer occurs will be credited on the basis of Hours of Service (with any
fractional year prior to the date of transfer converted to hours on the basis of
190 Hours of Service for each month in which the Employee was credited with at
least one Hour of Service).

            In determining whether an Employee of WWL-TV, Inc., a Delaware
corporation ("WWL-TV"), has completed a Year of Service for purposes of
eligibility to participate under Section 2.1, each such Employee who became an
employee of WWL-TV on June 1, 1994, and who immediately prior to that date was
an employee of Rampart Operating Partnership, a partnership organized under the
laws of the State of Louisiana ("Rampart"), will receive credit for an Hour of
Service for each hour for which the Employee was paid or entitled to payment by
Rampart or any affiliate of Rampart determined in accordance with Section 1.18
and will receive credit for his period of employment with Rampart or any
affiliate of Rampart calculated in the same manner as if it had been employment
with a Controlled Group Member.

            In determining whether an Employee of Bryan-College Station Eagle,
Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Bryan-College Station"), has completed a Year of
Service for purposes of eligibility to participate under Section 2.1, each such
Employee who became an employee of Bryan-College Station on December 26, 1995,
and who immediately prior to that date was an employee of Worrell Enterprises,
Inc. ("Worrell") or Eagle Publishing Limited Partnership ("Eagle Publishing"),
or any affiliate of either company, will receive credit for an Hour of Service
for each hour for which the Employee was paid or entitled to payment by Worrell,
Eagle Publishing or any affiliate of either company determined in accordance
with Section 1.18 and will receive credit for his period of employment with
Worrell, Eagle Publishing or any affiliate of either company calculated in the
same manner as if it had been employment with a Controlled Group Member.

            In determining whether an Employee of Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer,
Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Owensboro"), has completed a Year of Service for
purposes of eligibility to participate under Section 2.1, each such Employee who
became an employee of Owensboro on January 1, 1996, and who immediately prior to
that date was an employee of Owensboro Publishing Company ("OPC"), will receive
credit for an Hour of Service for each hour for which the Employee was paid or
entitled to payment by OPC or any affiliate of OPC determined in accordance with
Section 1.18 and will receive credit for his period of employment with OPC or
any affiliate of OPC calculated in the same manner as if it had been employment
with a Controlled Group Member.

            An Employee who became an employee of KMOV-TV, Inc. on June 2, 1997,
and who immediately prior to that date was an employee of Viacom Broadcasting of
Missouri, Inc. ("Viacom") will receive credit for an Hour of Service for each
hour for which such Employee

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was paid or entitled to be paid by Viacom or any affiliate of Viacom determined
in accordance with Section 1.18 and will receive credit for his period of
employment with Viacom or any affiliate of Viacom calculated in the same manner
as if it had been employment with a Controlled Group Member.

            An Employee who became an employee of Henderson Gleaner, Inc. on
March 31, 1997, and who immediately prior to that date was an employee of
Gleaner and Journal Publishing Co. will receive credit for an Hour of Service
for each hour for which such Employee was paid or entitled to be paid by Gleaner
and Journal Publishing Co. or any affiliate of Gleaner and Journal Publishing
Co. determined in accordance with Section 1.18 and will receive credit for his
period of employment with Gleaner and Journal Publishing Co. or any affiliate of
Gleaner and Journal Publishing Co. calculated in the same manner as if it had
been employment with a Controlled Group Member.

            An Employee (including a Guild Employee) who was an employee of The
Providence Journal Company or any affiliate of The Providence Journal Company on
February 28, 1997, prior to its merger with and into Belo Holdings, Inc. will
receive credit for an Hour of Service for each hour for which such Employee was
paid or entitled to be paid by The Providence Journal Company or any affiliate
of The Providence Journal Company determined in accordance with Section 1.18 and
will receive credit for his period of employment with The Providence Journal
Company or any affiliate of The Providence Journal Company calculated in the
same manner as if it had been employment with a Controlled Group Member.

            An Employee who was an employee of Press-Enterprise Company or any
affiliate of Press-Enterprise Company on July 25, 1997, will receive credit for
an Hour of Service for each hour for which such Employee was paid or entitled to
be paid by Press- Enterprise Company or any affiliate of Press-Enterprise
Company determined in accordance with Section 1.18 and will receive credit for
his period of employment with Press-Enterprise Company or any affiliate of
Press-Enterprise Company calculated in the same manner as if it had been
employment with a Controlled Group Member.

            An Employee who became an employee of KENS-TV, Inc. on October 15,
1997, and who immediately prior to that date was an employee of Harte-Hanks
Communications, Inc. will receive credit for an Hour of Service for each hour
for which such Employee was paid or entitled to be paid by Harte-Hanks
Communications, Inc. or any affiliate of Harte-Hanks Communications, Inc.
determined in accordance with Section 1.18 and will receive credit for his
period of employment with Harte-Hanks Communications, Inc. or any affiliate of
Harte-Hanks Communications, Inc. calculated in the same manner as if it had been
employment with a Controlled Group Member.

            An Employee who became an employee of KVUE Television, Inc., a
Delaware corporation, on June 1, 1999, and who immediately prior to that date
was an employee of KVUE Television, Inc., a Michigan corporation, will receive
credit for an Hour of Service for each hour for which such Employee was paid or
entitled to be paid by KVUE Television, Inc., a Michigan corporation, or any of
its affiliates, determined in accordance with Section 1.18 and will receive
credit for his period of employment with KVUE Television, Inc., a Michigan
corporation, or any

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of its affiliates, calculated in the same manner as if it had been employment
with a Controlled Group Member.

            An Employee who became an employee of KTVK, Inc., a Delaware
corporation, on November 1, 1999, and who immediately prior to that date was an
employee of MAC America Communications, Inc., an Arizona corporation, will
receive credit for an Hour of Service for each hour for which such Employee was
paid or entitled to be paid by MAC America Communications, Inc., an Arizona
corporation, or any of its affiliates determined in accordance with Section 1.18
and will receive credit for his period of employment with MAC America
Communications, Inc., an Arizona corporation, or any of its affiliates,
calculated in the same manner as if it had been employment with a Controlled
Group Member.

            An Employee who was an employee of Denton Publishing Company, a
Texas corporation, on July 1, 1999, will receive credit for an Hour of Service
for each hour for which such Employee was paid or entitled to be paid by Denton
Publishing Company, a Texas corporation, or any of its affiliates determined in
accordance with Section 1.18 and will receive credit for his period of
employment with Denton Publishing Company, a Texas corporation, or any of its
affiliates calculated in the same manner as if it had been employment with a
Controlled Group Member.

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                                    ARTICLE 2

                                  PARTICIPATION

      2.1   Eligibility to Participate.

            (a)   Deferral Contributions.

                  (i)   General Rule. Each Employee who is not a Participant as
of July 31, 2004, will become a Participant and may authorize Deferral
Contributions to the Plan as of the first payroll period beginning on or after
the latest of (A) August 1, 2004, (B) the date on which the Employee first
completes an Hour of Service and (C) the date on which he has attained age 21,
or as soon as administratively practicable thereafter, if he is then employed by
a Participating Employer. An Employee who becomes a Participant pursuant to this
Section 2.1(a) will not be eligible for Participating Employer matching
contributions or profit sharing contributions until he satisfies the eligibility
requirements of Section 2.1(b).

                  (ii)  Guild Employees. Notwithstanding the foregoing, each
Guild Employee who is an employee of The Providence Journal Company on July 31,
2004, will become a Participant and may authorize Deferral Contributions to the
Plan as of the first payroll period beginning on or after August 1, 2004. Each
other Guild Employee will be eligible to become a Participant in the Plan with
respect to Deferral Contributions upon satisfying the eligibility requirements
of Section 2.1(a)(i).

            (b)   Matching and Profit Sharing Contributions.

                  (i)   General Rule. Each Employee who is not a Participant as
of July 31, 2004, will become a Participant with respect to Participating
Employer matching contributions and profit sharing contributions as of the first
payroll period beginning on or after the date he has both attained age 21 and
completed a Year of Service, or as soon as administratively practicable
thereafter, if he is then employed by a Participating Employer.

                  (ii)  Guild Employees. Notwithstanding the foregoing, each
Guild Employee who on July 31, 2004, is both an employee of The Providence
Journal Company and has satisfied the eligibility requirements of the
Journal-Guild 401(k) Plan will become a Participant with respect to
Participating Employer matching contributions and profit sharing contributions
as of the first payroll period beginning on or after August 1, 2004. Each other
Guild Employee who is an employee of The Providence Journal Company on July 31,
2004, will become a Participant with respect to Participating Employer matching
contributions and profit sharing contributions as of the first payroll period
beginning on or after the date he has completed six months of employment or, if
the Guild Employee is irregularly scheduled, the date he has completed a Year of
Service, or as soon as administratively practicable thereafter, if he is then
employed by a Participating Employer. An Employee who becomes a Guild Employee
after July 31, 2004, will be eligible to become a Participant with respect to
Participating

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Employer matching contributions and profit sharing contributions upon satisfying
the eligibility requirements of Section 2.1(b)(i).

      2.2   Exclusions from Participation.

            (a)   Ineligible Employees. An Employee who is otherwise eligible to
participate in the Plan will not become or continue as an active Participant if
(i) he is covered by a collective bargaining agreement that does not expressly
provide for participation in the Plan, provided that the representative of the
Employees with whom the collective bargaining agreement is executed has had an
opportunity to bargain concerning retirement benefits for those Employees; (ii)
he is represented by a bargaining representative but is not covered by a
collective bargaining agreement, unless the Company and the bargaining
representative agree in writing that the Employee will be eligible to
participate in the Plan; (iii) he is a nonresident alien who receives no earned
income (within the meaning of Code section 911(d)(2)) from a Participating
Employer which constitutes income from sources within the United States (within
the meaning of Code section 861(a)(3)); (iv) he is a leased employee required to
be treated as an Employee under Code section 414(n) or otherwise performs
services under an arrangement with an employment agency, leasing organization or
any other person or entity that provides personnel to one or more Controlled
Group Members; (v) he is classified by a Participating Employer as an
independent contractor whose compensation for services is reported on a form
other than Form W-2 or any successor form for reporting wages paid to employees;
(vi) he is employed by a Controlled Group Member or an organizational unit
thereof that has not been designated as a Participating Employer by the Board;
or (vii) he is then on an approved leave of absence without pay or in the
service of the armed forces of the United States. An individual described in
clause (iv) or (v) of this subsection (a) who is subsequently determined to be a
common law employee of a Participating Employer will not be eligible to
participate in the Plan during any period prior to the date on which such
determination is actually and finally made.

            (b)   Exclusion after Participation. A Participant who becomes
ineligible under subsection (a) may not elect to have Deferral Contributions
made or continued to the Plan and will not be eligible to receive an allocation
of Participating Employer matching or profit sharing contributions.

            (c)   Participation after Exclusion. An Employee or Participant who
is excluded from active participation will be eligible to participate in the
Plan on the first day he is no longer described in subsection (a) and is
credited with one or more Hours of Service by a Participating Employer, provided
that he has otherwise met the requirements of Section 2.1. This subsection will
apply to an Employee who returns from an approved leave of absence or from
military leave and who would otherwise be treated as a new Employee under
Section 2.3 only if he returns to employment with a Controlled Group Member
immediately following the expiration of the leave of absence or, in the case of
an Employee on military leave, during the period in which reemployment rights
are guaranteed by law.

      2.3   Reemployment Provisions. If an Employee terminates employment before
satisfying the eligibility requirements set forth in Section 2.1(b) with respect
to Participating Employer matching contributions and profit sharing
contributions, and is reemployed by a Controlled Group Member before incurring a
number of consecutive One Year Breaks in Service

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at least equal to the greater of five or his aggregate Years of Service, he will
become a Participant with respect to such matching and profit sharing
contributions on the later of the date initially determined under Section 2.1(b)
or the date he is credited with one or more Hours of Service by a Participating
Employer after reemployment; but if he is reemployed by a Controlled Group
Member after incurring a number of consecutive One Year Breaks in Service at
least equal to the greater of five or his aggregate Years of Service, he will be
treated as a new Employee for purposes of Section 2.1(b) and his Hours of
Service completed before his reemployment will be disregarded in determining
when he will become a Participant with respect to such contributions.

      2.4   Veterans' Reemployment Rights. The provisions of this Section will
apply to any Employee who is reemployed by a Controlled Group Member on or after
December 12, 1994, following a period of Qualified Military Service.

            (a)   Service Credit. An Employee who returns to employment with a
Controlled Group Member following a period of Qualified Military Service (as
hereinafter defined) will not be treated as having incurred any One Year Breaks
in Service because of his period of Qualified Military Service. In addition,
each period of Qualified Military Service will, upon reemployment with a
Controlled Group Member, be deemed to be employment with such Controlled Group
Member for purposes of the Plan.

            (b)   Compensation. An Employee described in subsection (a) above
will be treated for Plan purposes as having received compensation from the
Controlled Group Member during each period of Qualified Military Service equal
to (i) the compensation the Employee would have received during such period of
Qualified Military Service if he were not in Qualified Military Service, based
on the rate of pay the Employee would have received from the Controlled Group
Member but for his absence during the period of Qualified Military Service or
(ii) if the compensation the Employee would have received during his period of
Qualified Military Service is not reasonably certain, the Employee's average
compensation from the employer during the 12-month period immediately preceding
the Qualified Military Service, or if shorter, during the period of employment
immediately preceding the Qualified Military Service.

            (c)   Qualified Military Service. For purposes of the Plan, the term
"Qualified Military Service" means service in the uniformed services (within the
meaning of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act
("USERRA"), provided the Employee is entitled under USERRA to reemployment
rights with a Controlled Group Member and the Employee returns to employment
with the Controlled Group Member within the period in which such reemployment
rights are guaranteed.

            (d)   Make-Up Contributions. Pursuant to procedures adopted from
time to time by the Committee, an Employee described in subsection (a) above may
elect additional Deferral Contributions and will receive an allocation of
additional Participating Employer matching contributions and, if applicable,
profit sharing contributions, for the period of his Qualified Military Service.
Such additional Deferral Contributions and Participating Employer matching
contributions may be made during the period that begins on the date of the
Employee's reemployment and extends for the lesser of five years or the duration
of the Employee's Qualified Military Service multiplied by three. An Employee's
Deferral Contributions and

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allocation of Participating Employer matching contributions made pursuant to
this Section will be subject to the limitations of the Plan and the Code
applicable to the years of the Employee's period of Qualified Military Service,
except that the Average Deferral Percentage and Average Contribution Percentage
limitations described in Article 10 will not be recalculated for such years and
will be determined for the Plan Years in which the make-up Deferral
Contributions and Participating Employer matching contributions are made without
regard to such make-up Deferral Contributions and Participating Employer
matching contributions.

            (e)   Loan Repayments. An Employee may elect to suspend the
repayment of a Plan loan during a period of Qualified Military Service as
permitted under Code section 414(u)(4) or may elect to continue loan repayments
during such period.

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                                    ARTICLE 3

                                  CONTRIBUTIONS

      3.1   Participant Deferral Contributions.

            (a)   Amount of Deferral Contributions. A Participant may elect, in
accordance with procedures established by the Committee from time to time, to
have Deferral Contributions made to the Plan by the Participating Employers for
any payroll period in an amount up to 100% of the Participant's Compensation for
the payroll period. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Committee may reduce the
amount of Deferral Contributions elected by a Participant in order to permit a
Participating Employer to withhold from the Participant's Compensation (i) all
taxes and other amounts the Participating Employer is required to withhold under
applicable law and (ii) any other amounts the Participant has elected to be
withheld from his Compensation for any purpose, including without limitation,
amounts to be withheld as contributions to Company-sponsored welfare benefit
plans.

            (b)   Modification and Suspension of Deferral Contributions. A
Participant may increase or decrease the amount of his Deferral Contributions
and may suspend his Deferral Contributions at any time during the Plan Year. A
Participant who suspends his Deferral Contributions may again authorize Deferral
Contributions to the Plan and such authorization will be effective as soon as
administratively practicable. If a Participant receives a distribution in
calendar year 2001 on account of hardship pursuant to Section 6.3, such
Participant's Deferral Contributions will automatically be suspended for a
six-month period after receipt of the hardship distribution or until January 1,
2002, if later. If a Participant receives a distribution after December 31,
2001, on account of hardship pursuant to Section 6.3, such Participant's
Deferral Contributions will automatically be suspended for a six-month period
following the date on which such Participant receives the hardship distribution.

            (c)   Limitations on Deferral Contributions. The sum of a
Participant's Deferral Contributions and his elective deferrals (within the
meaning of Code section 402(g)(3)) under any other plans, contracts or
arrangements of any Controlled Group Member will not exceed the dollar
limitation contained in Code section 402(g) (as such amount is adjusted for
cost-of-living increases in the manner described in Code section 415(d)) for any
taxable year of the Participant. A Participant's Deferral Contributions will
also be subject to the deferral percentage limitation set forth in Section 10.6.
In the event a Participant's Deferral Contributions and other elective deferrals
(whether or not under a plan, contract or arrangement of a Controlled Group
Member) for any taxable year exceed the foregoing dollar limitation, the excess
allocated by the Participant to Deferral Contributions (adjusted for Trust Fund
earnings and losses in the manner described in Section 10.6(d)) may, in the
discretion of the Committee, be distributed to the Participant no later than
April 15 following the close of such taxable year. The amount of Deferral
Contributions distributed to a Participant for a Plan Year pursuant to this
Section will be reduced by any excess Deferral Contributions previously
distributed to him pursuant to Section 10.6(c) for the same Plan Year.

            (d)   Catch-Up Deferral Contributions. Effective as soon as the
Committee determines it is administratively feasible to implement the provisions
of this subsection, a

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Participant who has attained age 50 before the close of a Plan Year will be
eligible to make catch-up Deferral Contributions in accordance with, and subject
to the limitations of, Code section 414(v). Such catch-up Deferral Contributions
will not be taken into account for purposes of the provisions of the Plan
implementing the required limitations of Code sections 402(g) and 415. The Plan
will not be treated as failing to satisfy the provisions of the Plan
implementing the requirements of Code sections 401(k)(3), 401(k)(11),
401(k)(12), 410(b), or 416, as applicable, solely because of such catch-up
Deferral Contributions.

      3.2   Participating Employer Matching Contributions. The provisions of
this Section will apply to only those Participants who have satisfied the
eligibility requirements of Section 2.1(b).

            (a)   75% Matching Contribution.

                  (i)   Matching Contribution. The Participating Employers will
pay to the Trustee as a matching contribution for each payroll period an amount
equal to 75% of each eligible Participant's Deferral Contributions (including
catch-up Deferral Contributions described in Section 3.1(d)) made on and after
August 1, 2004, but only to the extent that the Participant's Deferral
Contributions do not exceed 6% of the Participant's Compensation for the payroll
period.

                  (ii)  Eligible Participants - General Rule. A Participant
other than a Guild Employee will be an eligible Participant for purposes of the
75% matching contribution only if (A) the Participant first became employed by a
Participating Employer after June 30, 2000, or (B) if the Participant first
became employed by a Participating Employer before July 1, 2000, the Participant
is not accruing a benefit under The G. B. Dealey Retirement Pension Plan or any
other qualified defined benefit pension plan sponsored by the Company or any
Controlled Group Member during any portion of a payroll period for which a
Participating Employer is making Deferral Contributions on behalf of the
Participant.

                  (iii) Guild Employees. A Participant who is a Guild Employee
will be an eligible Participant for purposes of the 75% matching contribution
only if (A) the Participant first became employed by a Participating Employer
after July 31, 2004, or (B) if the Participant first became employed by a
Participating Employer before August 1, 2004, the Participant is not accruing a
benefit under The G. B. Dealey Retirement Pension Plan or any other qualified
defined benefit pension plan sponsored by the Company or any Controlled Group
Member during any portion of a payroll period for which a Participating Employer
is making Deferral Contributions on behalf of the Participant.

            (b)   55% Matching Contribution. With respect to each Participant
other than a Participant described in Section 3.2(a) (including Guild Employees
who continue to accrue a benefit under The G.B. Dealey Retirement Pension Plan
after July 31, 2004), the Participating Employers will pay to the Trustee as a
matching contribution for each payroll period an amount equal to 55% of the
Participant's Deferral Contributions (including catch-up Deferral

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Contributions described in Section 3.1(d)) but only to the extent that the
Participant's Deferral Contributions do not exceed 6% of the Participant's
Compensation for the payroll period.

            (c)   Additional Matching Contributions. Each Participating Employer
may make a matching contribution for any Plan Year, in addition to the matching
contributions provided under Section 3.2(a) and (b), if authorized by its board
of directors and approved by the Compensation Committee of the Board of
Directors, but no Participating Employer will be required to make an additional
matching contribution for any Plan Year.

            (d)   Contributions in Cash or in Company Stock. Prior to May 7,
2002, Participating Employer matching contributions may be made in cash or in
shares of Company Stock or both. Effective as of May 7, 2002, Participating
Employer matching contributions may be made in cash or in shares of Series A
Common Stock or in both cash and shares of Series A Common Stock, subject,
however, to the right of a Participant or Beneficiary pursuant to Section 3.6(b)
to redirect the investment of matching contributions made in Series A Common
Stock into any other investment fund established under the Plan.

            (e)   Limitation on Matching Contributions. Participating Employer
matching contributions will be subject to the contribution percentage limitation
set forth in Section 10.7.

      3.3   Profit Sharing Contributions. The Participating Employers will pay
to the Trustee as a profit sharing contribution for each payroll period an
amount equal to 2% of the Compensation paid on and after August 1, 2004, to each
Participant who is eligible to receive a 75% matching contribution under Section
3.2(a) and who is employed by a Participating Employer on the last day of the
payroll period. Each Participating Employer may, in the discretion of its board
of directors, make an additional, discretionary profit sharing contribution to
the Plan for any payroll period or for any Plan Year in such amount as is
determined by the Participating Employer and is approved by the Compensation
Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company.

      3.4   Collectively Bargained Employees. Notwithstanding the provisions of
Section 3.2 and Section 3.3, the Participating Employers will not make a
matching contribution or a profit sharing contribution for any Employee who is
covered by collective bargaining agreement unless and until the terms of such
collective bargaining agreement, as amended or renewed from time to time, permit
employer matching and profit sharing contributions to be made. In no event will
the matching contribution or profit sharing contribution made for such an
Employee exceed the amount of matching contributions or profit sharing
contributions permitted under such collective bargaining agreement.

      3.5   Time of Payment. Deferral Contributions will be paid to the Trustee
as soon as practicable following the close of each payroll period. Participating
Employer matching contributions will be paid to the Trustee as soon as
practicable following the close of each calendar month during the Plan Year, and
discretionary profit sharing contributions may be paid to the Trustee on any
date or dates selected by the Participating Employers, but in no event later
than the time prescribed by law (including extensions) for filing the
Participating Employer's federal income tax return for its tax year ending with
or within the Plan Year.

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      3.6   Investment of Contributions.

            (a)   Investment Funds. The investment funds established under the
Plan for the investment of Plan assets will be (i) the Belo Stock Fund and (ii)
such other funds as may be established by the Trustee under the Trust Agreement
at the direction of the Pension Investment Committee. The Belo Stock Fund will
be maintained by the Trustee notwithstanding any other applicable fiduciary
standard relating to (i) the diversification of Trust Fund assets, (ii) the
speculative character of Trust Fund investments, (iii) the lack or inadequacy of
income provided by Trust Fund assets, or (iv) the fluctuation in the fair market
value of Trust Fund assets. Notwithstanding any provision in the Plan to the
contrary, neither the Administrative Committee nor the Pension Investment
Committee will have any authority, responsibility, discretion or control over,
or with respect to, the Belo Stock Fund.

            (b)   Participant Investment Directions. The Plan is designed to
satisfy the requirements of ERISA section 404(c) and the regulations under that
section. All amounts allocated to each Participant's Account will be invested by
the Trustee at the direction of the Participant or, where applicable, the
Participant's Beneficiary, in one or more of the investment funds described in
Section 3.6(a). The Committee from time to time will establish rules and
procedures regarding Participant and Beneficiary investment directions,
including without limitation rules and procedures with respect to the manner in
which such directions may be furnished, the frequency with which such directions
may be changed during the Plan Year, the minimum portion of a Participant's or
Beneficiary's Account that may be invested in any one investment fund and the
frequency with which transactions in any investment fund may be executed (daily,
weekly or at some other interval). In addition, the Pension Investment Committee
will designate a default investment option for the Account of a Participant or
Beneficiary who fails to provide explicit investment directions and will advise
Participants and Beneficiaries that their failure to provide explicit investment
directions will operate as an implicit direction to the Trustee to invest their
Accounts in such default investment option.

            (c)   Belo Stock Fund. As of May 7, 2002, the Belo Stock Fund
consists of shares of Series A Common Stock and Series B Common Stock. The
Series A Common Stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and may be sold
at any time. The Series B Common Stock is not listed for trading on any exchange
and may be sold only after the Series B Common Stock has been converted on a
share for share basis into Series A Common Stock. Participants and Beneficiaries
will have the right at any time to direct the Trustee, in accordance with rules
and procedures established by the Committee from time to time, to convert shares
of Series B Common Stock allocated to their Accounts into shares of Series A
Common Stock. After May 7, 2002, only shares of Series A Common Stock will be
acquired by the Plan.

            (d)   Investment of Dividends on Company Stock. Effective with the
dividend payable on September 6, 2002, dividends paid on Company Stock allocated
to a Participant's or Beneficiary's Account will be invested proportionately in
the investment funds selected by the Participant or Beneficiary in his most
recent investment direction to the Trustee.

            (e)   Suspension of Investment Directions. The Committee may
temporarily suspend Participant investment directions in connection with any
event or transaction in which the Committee determines such suspension is
necessary or appropriate, including without

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limitation a merger of the Plan with another plan, a transfer of assets from the
Plan to another plan or from another plan to the Plan, a change in
administrative services provided to the Plan or a change in the investment
options to be offered to Participants. Such temporary suspension will apply to
those Participants designated by the Committee for such periods of time as the
Committee determines in its discretion. The Committee will give Participants
affected by any suspension in investment directions such advance notice of the
suspension as the Committee determines to be reasonable under the circumstances.

      3.7   Rollover and Transfer Contributions. Unless otherwise directed to do
so by the Committee, the Trustee is authorized to accept (i) any part of the
cash or other assets distributed to a Participant from a Qualified Plan, a
qualified annuity plan described in Code section 403(a), an annuity contract
described in Code section 403(b), an eligible plan under Code section 457(b)
which is maintained by a state, political subdivision of a state, or any agency
or instrumentality of a state or political subdivision of a state, or from an
individual retirement account or annuity described in Code sections 408(a) or
(b) that is eligible to be rolled over and would otherwise be includible in
gross income and (ii) a direct transfer of assets to the Plan on behalf of a
Participant from the trustee or other funding agent of a Qualified Plan. Any
amounts contributed to the Plan pursuant to this Section will be allocated to
the Participant's Rollover Account; provided, however, that in the case of a
direct transfer of assets from the trustee of another Qualified Plan sponsored
by a Controlled Group Member, the Committee will maintain such records as may be
necessary to determine the portions of the transferred amount which represent
employer profit sharing, matching and salary deferral contributions made by the
former employer and earnings and losses attributable thereto and will allocate
such amounts to the applicable Account of the Participant. On and after August
1, 2004, a Participant who has an account balance in the Journal-Guild 401(k)
Plan may elect to transfer that balance to the Plan in accordance with
procedures established from time to time by the Committee.

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                                    ARTICLE 4

                      ALLOCATIONS TO PARTICIPANTS' ACCOUNTS

      4.1   Establishment of Accounts. The Committee will establish a Deferral
Contribution Account for each Participant, and to the extent applicable, a
Matching Contribution Account, a Profit Sharing Account and a Rollover Account.
The Committee may also establish one or more subaccounts of a Participant's
Accounts, if the Committee determines that subaccounts are necessary or
desirable in administering the Plan.

      4.2   Allocation of Contributions.

            (a)   Deferral Contributions. Each Deferral Contribution made by a
Participating Employer on behalf of a Participant will be allocated by the
Committee to the Participant's Deferral Contribution Account.

            (b)   Matching Contributions. Each Participating Employer matching
contribution made with respect to a payroll period on behalf of Participants who
are eligible to receive a matching contribution under Sections 3.2(a), 3.2(b) or
3.2(c) will be allocated by the Committee to each such Participant's Matching
Contribution Account.

            (c)   Profit Sharing Contributions. Each profit sharing contribution
made by a Participating Employer for a payroll period will be allocated only to
the Profit Sharing Accounts of Participants who are employed by the
Participating Employer on the last day of the payroll period and are eligible to
receive profit sharing contributions pursuant to Section 3.3. For purposes of
this allocation, an Employee will be a Participant in the Plan on the last day
of a payroll period if the Employee is eligible to make Deferral Contributions
as of the last day of the payroll period, without regard to whether the
Participant has elected to make Deferral Contributions. The amount of a
Participating Employer's profit sharing contribution to be allocated to the
Profit Sharing Account of each such eligible Participant for a payroll period
will bear the same ratio to the Participating Employer's total profit sharing
contribution for the payroll period as the Participant's Compensation for the
payroll period bears to the total Compensation of all such Participants eligible
to receive an allocation of the Participating Employer's profit sharing
contribution for the payroll period.

      4.3   Limitation on Allocations. Article 10 sets forth certain rules under
Code sections 401(k), 401(m) and 415 that limit the amount of contributions and
forfeitures that may be allocated to a Participant's Accounts for a Plan Year.

      4.4   Allocation of Trust Fund Income and Loss.

            (a)   Accounting Records. The Committee, through its accounting
records, will clearly segregate each Account and subaccount and will maintain a
separate and distinct record of all income and losses of the Trust Fund
attributable to each Account or subaccount. Income or loss of the Trust Fund
will include any unrealized increase or decrease in the fair market value of the
assets of the Trust Fund.

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            (b)   Method of Allocation.

                  (i)   General Rule. Except as provided in Section 4.4(b)(ii),
the share of net income or net loss of the Trust Fund to be credited to, or
deducted from, each Account will be the allocable portion of the net income or
net loss of the investment fund in which such Account, or any subaccount of such
Account, is invested as of each Valuation Date, as determined by the Committee
in a uniform and nondiscriminatory manner.

                  (ii)  Special Rule for Interest Accumulated by Wells Fargo
Bank. Any amounts held in cash by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as trustee of the Plan
("Wells Fargo"), will be invested by Wells Fargo in short-term interest-bearing
instruments. As soon as practicable after the last day of any calendar quarter
on which there is at least $500 of accumulated interest in excess of any cash
required by Wells Fargo to manage the sale and reinvestment of Series B Common
Stock, such accumulated interest will be allocated to each eligible
Participant's Account by the Committee as net income of the Trust Fund, in a
uniform and nondiscriminatory manner, based on the ratio that the amount of each
eligible Participant's Account that is invested in Series A Common Stock held by
Wells Fargo as of the last day of such calendar quarter bears to the total
amount of all eligible Participants' Accounts that is invested in Series A
Common Stock held by Wells Fargo as of the last day of such calendar quarter.
The interest so allocated to an eligible Participant's Account will be invested
proportionately in the investment funds selected by the Participant in his most
recent investment direction. For purposes of this paragraph, an "eligible
Participant" with respect to a calendar quarter is a Participant who is an
Employee on the last day of the calendar quarter and for whom Wells Fargo holds
shares of Series A Common Stock as of the last day of the calendar quarter.

      4.5   Valuation of Trust Fund. The fair market value of the total net
assets comprising the Trust Fund will be determined by the Trustee as of each
Valuation Date.

      4.6   No Guarantee. The Participating Employers, the Committee and the
Trustee do not guarantee the Participants or their Beneficiaries against loss or
depreciation or fluctuation of the value of the assets of the Trust Fund.

      4.7   Annual Statement of Accounts. The Committee will furnish each
Participant and each Beneficiary of a deceased Participant, at least annually, a
statement showing (i) the value of his Accounts at the end of the Plan Year,
(ii) the allocations to and distributions from his Accounts during the Plan
Year, and (iii) his vested and nonforfeitable interest in his Accounts at the
end of the Plan Year. No statement will be provided to a Participant or
Beneficiary after the Participant's entire vested and nonforfeitable interest in
his Accounts has been distributed.

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                                    ARTICLE 5

                                     VESTING

      5.1   Determination of Vested Interest.

            (a)   Full Vesting. Except as provided in Section 5.3 or 10.6(e)
(with respect to discriminatory Matching Contributions), each Participant who is
an Employee on June 30, 2000 other than a Guild Employee, and each Participant
who is a Guild Employee on July 31, 2004, will have a 100% vested and
nonforfeitable interest in his Accounts at all times. Except as provided in
Section 5.3, the interest of each Participant in his Deferral Contribution
Account and his Rollover Account will be 100% vested and nonforfeitable at all
times.

            (b)   Vesting Schedule. The Matching Contribution Account and Profit
Sharing Account of (i) each Participant who becomes an Employee other than a
Guild Employee after June 30, 2000, and (ii) each Participant who becomes a
Guild Employee after July 31, 2004, will become vested and nonforfeitable in
accordance with the following schedule, subject to Sections 5.3 and 10.6(e):

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                       Percent Vested
Years of Service                      and Nonforfeitable
----------------                      ------------------
<S>                                   <C>
   Less than 3                                 0
    3 or more                                 100
</TABLE>

            (c)   Accelerated Vesting. Except as provided in Section 5.3 or
10.6(e), a Participant's interest in his Matching Contribution Account and his
Profit Sharing Account will become 100% vested and nonforfeitable without regard
to his Years of Service upon the earliest to occur of (i) his attainment of age
55 if he is then an Employee, (ii) his death while he is an Employee, or (iii)
his becoming totally and permanently disabled (as hereinafter defined) while he
is an Employee. A person will be totally and permanently disabled for purposes
of this paragraph only if he is eligible to receive disability benefits under
the Social Security Act.

      5.2   Forfeiture of Nonvested Amounts. Upon termination of employment, a
Participant who has a 0% vested interest in the portion of his Account
attributable to Participating Employer matching and profit sharing contributions
will be deemed to receive a distribution of his vested interest, and the
Participant's entire nonvested interest will be forfeited immediately. If the
Participant again becomes an Employee before incurring five or more consecutive
One Year Breaks in Service, the forfeited amounts will be reinstated to his
Account, unadjusted for earnings or losses since the date of forfeiture. If the
Participant becomes an Employee after incurring five or more consecutive One
Year Breaks in Service, the forfeited amounts will not be reinstated.

      5.3   Unclaimed Distribution. If the Committee cannot locate a person
entitled to receive a benefit under the Plan within a reasonable period (as
determined by the Committee in its discretion), the amount of the benefit will
be treated as a forfeiture during the Plan Year in

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which the period ends. If, before final distributions are made from the Trust
Fund following termination of the Plan, a person who was entitled to a benefit
which has been forfeited under this Section makes a claim to the Committee or
the Trustee for his benefit, he will be entitled to receive, as soon as
administratively feasible, a benefit in an amount equal to the value of the
forfeited benefit on the date of forfeiture. This benefit will be reinstated
from forfeitures arising during such Plan Year or, if forfeitures are
insufficient, from Participating Employer contributions made to the Plan for
this purpose.

      5.4   Application of Forfeited Amounts. The amount of a Participant's
Accounts which is forfeited pursuant to this Article or Section 10.6(e) will be
applied first to pay the expenses of administering the Plan, next to reinstate
any forfeitures that must be reinstated in accordance with this Article, then to
reduce Participating Employer profit sharing contributions pursuant to Section
3.3 and last to reduce Participating Employer matching contributions pursuant to
Section 3.2.

      5.5   Reemployment Provisions. If a Participant terminates employment and
again becomes an Employee, his Years of Service completed before his
reemployment will be included in determining his vested and nonforfeitable
interest after he again becomes an Employee.

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                                    ARTICLE 6

                          DISTRIBUTIONS TO PARTICIPANTS

      6.1   Basic Rules Governing Distributions.

            (a)   Timing of Distributions. Except as set forth in Sections 6.2
and 6.3, distribution of a Participant's vested Account Balances will be made as
soon as practicable after the Valuation Date coinciding with or immediately
following the Participant's termination of employment, or if earlier, the date
on which the Participant becomes eligible to receive benefits under the Social
Security Act on account of total and permanent disability. If a loan is
outstanding from the Trust Fund to the Participant on the date his vested
Account balances become distributable, the amount distributed to the Participant
will be reduced by any security interest in his Accounts held by the Plan by
reason of the loan.

            (b)   Form of Distributions Prior to April 1, 2001.

                  (i)   Normal Form of Distribution. The normal form of
      distribution will be a single lump sum payment. Shares of Company Stock
      allocated to a Participant's Accounts will be distributed in the form of
      whole shares plus cash for any fractional share, unless the Participant
      elects to receive the cash value of such shares.

                  (ii)  Optional Forms of Distribution for Journal Plan
      Participants. The optional forms of distribution described in this
      paragraph are available for distributions other than withdrawals described
      in Section 6.2 and hardship distributions described in Section 6.3 only to
      a Participant whose account balances were transferred to the Plan from the
      Journal Qualified Compensation Deferral Plan, the Journal Broadcasting
      401(k) Plan or the Journal-Guild Plan, and whose vested Account balances
      exceed $3,500 ($5,000 for Plan Years beginning after December 31, 1997).
      The optional forms of benefit will be (A) periodic installment payments
      over a period of years not to exceed the life expectancy of the
      Participant or the joint life expectancy of the Participant and his
      Beneficiary and (B) a single life annuity or a Qualified Joint and
      Survivor Annuity (as hereinafter defined) purchased from an insurance
      company with the amount of the Participant's vested Account balances,
      provided, however, that the annuity option will be available to a former
      participant in the Journal Broadcasting 401(k) Plan only if he was a
      participant in such Plan prior to December 31, 1996. For purposes of this
      Section, the term "Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity" means an annuity
      payable monthly for the life of the Participant with a survivor annuity
      payable monthly for the life of the Participant's surviving spouse in an
      amount equal to 50% of the amount of the monthly payment to the
      Participant during his life.

                  (iii) Optional Form of Distribution for Press-Enterprise and
      Gleaner Plan Participants. The optional form of distribution described in
      this paragraph is available for distributions other than withdrawals
      described in Section 6.2 and hardship distributions described in Section
      6.3 only to a Participant whose account balances were transferred to the
      Plan from the Press-Enterprise Tax Deferred Savings Plan or the Gleaner
      and Journal Publishing Co. 401(k) Retirement Plan and whose vested Account

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      balances exceed $3,500 ($5,000 for Plan Years beginning after December 31,
      1997). The optional form of benefit will be periodic installment payments
      over a period of years not to exceed the life expectancy of the
      Participant or the joint life expectancy of the Participant and his
      Beneficiary.

                  (iv)  Rules Relating to Annuities. If a married Participant
      elects to receive his vested Account balances in the form of a single life
      annuity, the Participant's election will not be effective without the
      written consent of his spouse, witnessed by a notary public and
      acknowledging the effect of such election, unless it is established to the
      satisfaction of the Committee that such consent cannot be obtained because
      there is no spouse, because the spouse cannot be located, or because of
      such other circumstances as regulations under Code section 417 permit. An
      election under this Section must be made, in accordance with rules and
      procedures established from time to time by the Committee, within 90 days
      of the date on which the Participant would receive his first payment of
      benefits under the Plan. A Participant may revoke an election to receive
      an annuity without the consent of his spouse before the date on which the
      Trustee purchases the annuity. If a married Participant revokes a prior
      election to receive an annuity, he may elect without the consent of his
      spouse to receive his vested Account balances in a lump sum payment,
      installments or a Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity. If a Participant
      who has elected to receive an annuity dies before the Trustee has
      purchased the annuity from an insurance company, the Participant's vested
      Account balances will be paid to the Participant's surviving spouse, if
      any, and if none, to the Participant's Beneficiary. If the Participant
      dies after the Trustee has purchased the annuity, any benefits payable
      after the Participant's death will be determined under the terms of the
      annuity. For purposes of the Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity, the
      term "spouse" means the spouse to whom the Participant was married at the
      time he elected the Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity. If such spouse
      dies before the Participant, the amount of the Participant's monthly
      annuity will not be increased.

                  (c)   Form of Distributions after March 31, 2001.
Distributions made after March 31, 2001, will be in the form of a single lump
sum payment, except as hereinafter provided. The cash value of the whole and
fractional shares of Company Stock allocated to a Participant's Accounts will be
distributed to the Participant in cash unless the Participant elects to receive
distribution of the whole shares allocated to his Accounts in the form of
shares. A Participant whose account balance in the King Broadcasting Company
Retirement Plan or the Colony Communications, Inc. Retirement Plan was
transferred to the Plan effective December 3, 2001, may elect prior to December
31, 2001, to receive a distribution of that portion of his Account attributable
to the Participant's transferred account balance in any optional form of benefit
available under such predecessor plan.

            (d)   Participant's Consent to Certain Payments. If the amount of a
Participant's vested Account balances exceed $3,500 ($5,000 for Plan Years
beginning after December 31, 1997), the Committee will not distribute the
Participant's vested Account balances to him prior to the date distributions are
required to begin under Article 11 following his attainment of age 70 1/2,
unless he elects to receive a distribution at any earlier date following
termination of employment. For purposes of the preceding sentence, the value of
a Participant's vested Account balances will be determined without regard to
that portion that is attributable to

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his Rollover Account. For Plan Years beginning after December 31, 1996, a
distribution may be made less than 30 days after the Participant has been
furnished an explanation of his distribution options provided that (i) the
Committee clearly informs the Participant that he has the right to consider
whether to accept a distribution and whether to consent to a particular form of
distribution for at least 30 days after he has been provided the relevant
information, (ii) the Participant affirmatively elects to waive the 30-day
notice period and receive a distribution, and (iii) with respect to a
distribution to which Code section 417 applies, the Participant is permitted to
revoke the election and make a new election at any time prior to the later of
the date of distribution or the expiration of the seven-day period after the
explanation of distribution options is provided to the Participant. The
foregoing provision will not apply to any distributions required under Sections
10.6 and 10.7.

      6.2   Withdrawals.

            (a)   After Age 59 1/2. A Participant who has not terminated
employment may request a distribution from his Accounts if he has reached age 59
1/2. A Participant who is a director, officer or principal stockholder of the
Company within the meaning of Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
may exercise the foregoing withdrawal right only in accordance with rules and
procedures established from time to time by the Committee. All other
Participants may exercise their withdrawal rights at any time or times during
the Plan Year.

            (b)   Former Journal Broadcasting Employees. A Participant who, on
December 31, 1997, was a participant in the Journal Broadcasting 401(k) Plan may
withdraw, in accordance with rules and procedures established from time to time
by the Committee, all or any portion of his Rollover Account attributable to his
after-tax contributions and rollover contributions that were transferred to the
Plan from the Journal Broadcasting 401(k) Plan effective January 1, 1998.

      6.3   Hardship Distributions.

            (a)   General Rule. A Participant who has not terminated employment
may request a distribution from his Deferral Contribution Account or his
Rollover Account in the event of his hardship; provided, however that a
Participant who was a participant in the Denton Publishing Company Retirement
Plan on December 31, 1999, may request such a distribution only with respect to
his Deferral Contributions made after December 31, 1999, or his Rollover
Account. A distribution will be on account of hardship only if the distribution
is necessary to satisfy an immediate and heavy financial need of the
Participant, as defined below, and satisfies all other requirements of this
Section. For Plan Years beginning on or after January 1, 1996, pursuant to
Section 3.1(b), a Participant's Deferral Contributions will automatically be
suspended for a 12-month period (six month period, effective January 1, 2002)
after the date on which such Participant receives a distribution on account of
hardship.

            (b)   Deemed Financial Need. For purposes of this Section, a
distribution is made on account of an immediate and heavy financial need of the
Participant only if the distribution is for (i) the payment of medical expenses
described in Code section 213(d) previously incurred by the Participant, the
Participant's spouse or any dependents of the Participant (as defined in Code
section 152) or necessary for such persons to obtain medical care

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described in Code section 213(d); (ii) costs directly related to the purchase of
a principal residence for the Participant (excluding mortgage payments); (iii)
the payment of tuition, related educational fees and room and board expenses for
the next 12 months of post-secondary education for the Participant, his spouse,
children or dependents (as defined in Code section 152); (iv) payments necessary
to prevent the eviction of the Participant from his principal residence or
foreclosure on the mortgage of the Participant's principal residence; or (v) the
payment of funeral expenses of a family member.

            (c)   Reasonable Reliance Test. A distribution will be considered
necessary to satisfy an immediate and heavy financial need of the Participant
only if all three of the following requirements are satisfied: (i) the
distribution is not in excess of the amount required to relieve the immediate
and heavy financial need of the Participant (taking into account the taxable
nature of the distribution); (ii) the Participant represents in writing, on
forms provided by the Committee, that the need cannot be relieved through
reimbursement or compensation by insurance or otherwise, by reasonable
liquidation of the Participant's assets, to the extent such liquidation would
not itself cause an immediate and heavy financial need, by cessation of Deferral
Contributions under the Plan, or by distributions other than hardship
distributions or nontaxable (at the time of the loan) loans from the Plan and
any other plans maintained by any Controlled Group Member or any other entity by
which the Participant is employed, or by borrowing from commercial sources on
reasonable commercial terms; and (iii) the Committee determines that it can
reasonably rely on the Participant's written representation.

            (d)   Limitation for Loans. No distribution under this Section will
be made in an amount that is greater than the excess of the Participant's vested
interest in his Accounts over the aggregate amount of outstanding loans, plus
accrued interest, secured by the Participant's Accounts.

      6.4   Distribution Procedures. Distributions pursuant to Sections 6.2 and
6.3 will be made as soon as practicable following the Committee's approval of
the Participant's written request for withdrawal and will be made in the form
described in Section 6.1(b) or Section 6.1(c), as applicable. Distributions
pursuant to Sections 6.2(a) and 6.3 will be made pro rata from each of the
Participant's Accounts, provided, however, that in the case of a hardship
distribution under Section 6.3, the cumulative amount distributed to a
Participant from his Deferral Contribution Account will not exceed the amount of
his Deferral Contributions that have not been previously withdrawn (but not the
income allocable to his Deferral Contributions). No distribution under this
Section will be made in an amount that is greater than the excess of the
Participant's vested interest in the Accounts from which the distributions are
made over the aggregate amount of outstanding loans, plus accrued interest,
secured by such Accounts. For purposes of determining the amount available for
distribution, a Participant's Accounts will be valued as of the Valuation Date
immediately preceding the date on which the Participant requests a distribution.

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      6.5   Loans to Participants.

            (a)   General Provisions. A Participant may, subject to the
provisions of this Section and the loan procedures adopted by the Committee from
time to time, borrow from the balance of his Deferral Contribution and Rollover
Accounts, provided, however, that no loan may be made from a Participant's
Profit Sharing and Matching Contribution Accounts. All such loans will be
subject to the requirements of this Section and such other rules as the
Committee may from time to time prescribe, including without limitation any
rules restricting the purposes for which loans will be approved. The Committee
will have complete discretion as to approval of a loan hereunder and as to the
terms thereof, provided that its decisions will be made on a uniform and
nondiscriminatory basis and in accordance with this Section. If the Committee
approves a loan, the Committee will direct the Trustee to make the loan and will
advise the Participant and the Trustee of the terms and conditions of the loan.
Nothing in this Section will require the Committee to make loans available to
Participants.

            (b)   Terms and Conditions. Loans to Participants will be made
according to the following terms and conditions and such additional terms and
conditions as the Committee may from time to time establish: (i) no loan will be
for a term of longer than five years; (ii) all loans will be in default on the
first date that a required loan repayment is not made and the entire unpaid
balance of the loan will be treated as a deemed distribution to the Participant
unless all past due payments are made before the expiration of any grace period
established under the loan procedures; (iii) all loans will bear a reasonable
rate of interest established under the loan procedures; (iv) all loans will be
made only upon receipt of adequate security (the security for a loan will be the
Participant's interest in the separate investment fund established under
subsection (f) for that loan) in an amount that does not exceed 50% of the
Participant's vested interest under the Plan); (v) except as otherwise provided
by the loan procedures, payments of principal and interest will be made through
payroll deductions sufficient to provide for substantially level amortization of
principal and interest with payments not less frequently than quarterly, which
will be irrevocably authorized by the Participant in writing on a form provided
by the Committee at the time the loan is made; (vi) the amount of any
indebtedness (including accrued and unpaid interest) under any loan will be
deducted from a Participant's interest in the Trust Fund if and only if such
indebtedness or any installment thereof is not paid when due (including amounts
due by acceleration) unless the Committee determines that there is adequate
security for such loan other than the Participant's interest in the Trust Fund;
(vii) no more than one outstanding loan will be permitted with respect to a
Participant at any time, except that a Participant may have a home loan and a
loan which is not a home loan outstanding at the same time; (viii) for Plan
Years beginning on or after January 1, 1996, no more than two outstanding loans
will be permitted with respect to a Participant at any time; (ix) for Plan Years
beginning on or after January 1, 1996, no new home loans will be permitted; and
(x) all loans will be evidenced by a note containing such additional terms and
conditions as the Committee will determine. Notwithstanding anything in the
foregoing to the contrary, no amount of any indebtedness will be deducted
pursuant to subsection (vi) above from a Participant's Accounts prior to the
time that such Accounts are otherwise distributable.

            (c)   Maximum Amount of Loans. The amount of any loan made pursuant
to this Section, when added to the outstanding balance of all other loans to the
Participant from all qualified employer plans (as defined in Code section
72(p)(4)) of the Controlled Group, will not

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exceed the lesser of (i) one-half of the aggregate nonforfeitable interest in
his account balance(s) under all such plans, or (ii) $50,000 reduced by the
excess, if any, of (A) the highest outstanding balance of all other loans from
qualified employer plans of the Controlled Group to the Participant during the
1-year period ending on the date on which such loan was made, over (B) the
outstanding balance of all loans from qualified employer plans of the Controlled
Group to the Participant on the date on which such loan was made.

            (d)   Minimum Loan. The minimum loan permitted under this Section is
$1,000. If such minimum amount exceeds the limitations of subsection (c), no
loan will be made.

            (e)   Source of Loans. All loans will be made pro rata from the
Participant's Deferral Contribution and Rollover Accounts.

            (f)   Investment of Loan Payments. All loans will be treated as a
separate investment fund of the borrowing Participant. All payments with respect
to a loan will be credited to the borrowing Participant's Accounts and will be
invested in the investment funds under the Trust Agreement in accordance with
the Participant's latest investment directions pursuant to Section 3.6.

            (g)   Grandfathered Loans. Loans that are transferred to the Plan
from another Qualified Plan will be administered in accordance with their terms,
notwithstanding the fact that the terms of such loans do not satisfy the
foregoing provisions of this Section.

      6.6   Reemployment of Participant. If a Participant who terminated
employment again becomes an Employee before receiving a distribution of his
Account balances, no distribution from the Trust Fund will be made while he is
an Employee, and amounts distributable to him on account of his prior
termination will be held in the Trust Fund until he is again entitled to a
distribution under the Plan.

      6.7   Valuation of Accounts. A Participant's distributable Account
balances will be valued as of the Valuation Date immediately preceding the date
the Accounts are to be distributed, except that there will be added to the value
of his Accounts the fair market value of any amounts allocated to his Accounts
under Article 4 after that Valuation Date.

      6.8   Direct Rollovers.

            (a)   Distributions after 1992. Notwithstanding any other provision
of the Plan, for distributions made on or after January 1, 1993, a Distributee
(as hereinafter defined) may elect, at any time and in the manner prescribed by
the Committee, to have any portion of an Eligible Rollover Distribution (as
hereinafter defined) paid directly to an Eligible Retirement Plan (as
hereinafter defined) specified by the Distributee, except to the extent that the
total Eligible Rollover Distributions with respect to the Distributee in any
Plan Year are reasonably expected to total less than $200.

            (b)   Eligible Rollover Distribution. An Eligible Rollover
Distribution is any distribution of all or any portion of the balance to the
credit of the Distributee, except that an Eligible Rollover Distribution does
not include (i) any distribution that is one of a series of

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substantially equal periodic payments (not less frequently than annually) made
for the life or life expectancy of the Distributee or the joint lives or life
expectancies of the Distributee and the Distributee's designated beneficiary, or
for a specified period of ten years or more, (ii) any distribution to the extent
such distribution is required by Code section 401(a)(9), (iii) effective for
distributions after December 31, 1998, any distribution that qualifies as a
hardship distribution under Section 6.3, and (iv) the portion of any
distribution that is not includible in gross income (determined without regard
to the exclusion for net unrealized appreciation with respect to employer
securities). Notwithstanding the foregoing, a portion of a distribution will not
fail to be an Eligible Rollover Distribution merely because the portion consists
of after-tax employee contributions which are not includible in gross income.
However, such portion may be transferred only to an individual retirement
account or annuity described in Code sections 408(a) or (b), or to a qualified
defined contribution plan described in Code sections 401(a) or 403(a) that
agrees to separately account for amounts so transferred, including separately
accounting for the portion of such distribution which is includible in gross
income and the portion of such distribution which is not so includible.

            (c)   Eligible Retirement Plan. An Eligible Retirement Plan is an
individual retirement account described in Code section 408(a), an individual
retirement annuity described in Code section 408(b), an annuity plan described
in Code section 403(a), or a qualified trust described in Code section 401(a)
that is a defined contribution plan within the meaning of Code section 414(i),
that accepts the Distributee's Eligible Rollover Distribution. Effective for
distributions made after December 31, 2001, an Eligible Retirement Plan includes
an annuity contract described in Code section 403(b) and an eligible plan under
Code section 457(b) which is maintained by a state, political subdivision of a
state, or any agency or instrumentality of a state or political subdivision of a
state and which agrees to separately account for amounts transferred into such
plan from the Plan. The definition of Eligible Retirement Plan also applies in
the case of a distribution to a surviving spouse, or to a spouse or former
spouse who is the alternate payee under a qualified domestic relations order, as
defined in Code section 414(p).

            (d)   Distributee. A Distributee includes a Participant, the
Participant's Spouse, or a Participant's former spouse who is an alternate payee
under a qualified domestic relations order, as defined in Section 414(p) of the
Code.

      6.9   Restrictions on Distributions. Article 11 sets forth certain rules
under various provisions of the Code relating to restrictions on distributions
to Participants.

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                                    ARTICLE 7

                         DISTRIBUTIONS TO BENEFICIARIES

      7.1   Designation of Beneficiary. Each Participant will have the right to
designate a Beneficiary or Beneficiaries to receive his vested Account balances
upon his death. The designation will be made on forms prescribed by the
Committee and will be effective upon receipt by the Committee. A Participant
will have the right to change or revoke any designation by filing a new
designation or notice of revocation with the Committee, but the revised
designation or revocation will be effective only upon receipt by the Committee.

      7.2   Consent of Spouse Required. A Participant who is married may not
designate a Beneficiary other than, or in addition to, his spouse unless his
spouse consents to the designation by means of a written instrument that is
signed by the spouse, contains an acknowledgment by the spouse of the effect of
the consent, and is witnessed by a member of the Committee (other than the
Participant) or by a notary public. The designation will be effective only with
respect to the consenting spouse, whose consent will be irrevocable. A
Beneficiary designation to which a spouse has consented may not be changed by
the Participant without spousal consent (other than to designate the spouse as
Beneficiary), unless the spouse's consent expressly permits Beneficiary
designations by the Participant without any further consent of the spouse.

      7.3   Failure to Designate Beneficiary. In the event a Participant has not
designated a Beneficiary, or in the event no Beneficiary survives a Participant,
the distribution of the Participant's vested Account balances upon his death
will be made (i) to the Participant's spouse, if living, (ii) if his spouse is
not then living, to his then living issue by right of representation, (iii) if
neither his spouse nor his issue are then living, to his then living parents,
and (iv) if none of the above are then living, to his estate.

      7.4   Distributions to Beneficiaries.

            (a)   General Provisions. Distribution of a Participant's vested
Account balances to the Participant's Beneficiary will be made as soon as
practicable after the earlier of the Beneficiary's request for a distribution or
the required distribution date set forth in Section 7.4(b). The Participant's
vested Account balances will be distributed to the Beneficiary in the same form
or forms that would have been available to the Participant at the time of the
Beneficiary's distribution election. The Participant's Account balances will be
valued as of the Valuation Date coinciding with or immediately preceding the
date the Accounts are to be distributed to his Beneficiary, except that there
will be added to the value of the Participant's Accounts the fair market value
of any amounts allocated to his Accounts under Article 4 after that Valuation
Date. If a loan is outstanding from the Trust Fund to the Participant on the
date of his death, the amount distributed to his Beneficiary will be reduced by
any security interest in the Participant's Accounts held by the Plan by reason
of the loan.

            (b)   Required Distribution Dates.

                  (i)   Spouse as Beneficiary. If the Participant dies before
      distribution of his benefit begins and the designated Beneficiary is the
      Participant's surviving spouse,

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      distributions to the spouse must be made or begin on or before December 31
      of the calendar year in which the Participant would have attained age 70
      1/2. If, however, the Participant dies in the calendar year in which he
      would have attained age 70 1/2, or in any subsequent calendar year,
      distributions to the spouse must be made or begin on or before December 31
      of the calendar year following the calendar year in which the Participant
      died. If the spouse dies before distributions are made or begin,
      distributions will be made to the spouse's Beneficiary in accordance with
      paragraph (ii) below with the required distribution dates measured from
      the date of the spouse's death. If the Participant dies after
      distributions begin and the Participant was receiving an optional form of
      distribution under Section 6.1(b)(ii) or Section 6.1(b)(iii), the
      remaining portion of his benefit, if any, will continue to be distributed
      in accordance with the form of payment elected by the Participant.

                  (ii)  Non-spouse Beneficiary. If the Participant dies before
      distribution of his benefit begins and the designated Beneficiary is other
      than the Participant's surviving spouse, distribution of the Participant's
      entire benefit must be made no later than December 31 of the fifth
      calendar year following the date of the Participant's death. If, however,
      the Participant could have elected an optional form of distribution under
      Section 6.1(b)(ii) or Section 6.1(b)(iii) and the non-spouse Beneficiary
      elects to receive distribution in such optional form, distributions must
      begin on or before December 31 of the calendar year immediately following
      the calendar year in which the Participant died. If the Participant dies
      after distributions begin and the Participant was receiving an optional
      form of distribution under Section 6.1(b)(ii) or Section 6.1(b)(iii), the
      remaining portion of his benefit, if any, will continue to be distributed
      in accordance with the form of payment elected by the Participant.

      7.5   Restrictions on Distributions. Article 11 sets forth certain rules
under various provisions of the Code relating to restrictions on distributions
to Beneficiaries.

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                                    ARTICLE 8

                       PROVISIONS REGARDING COMPANY STOCK

      8.1   Participant Voting Instructions. Before each annual or special
meeting of shareholders of the Company that occurs after May 8, 2002, the
Committee will cause to be sent to each Participant and Beneficiary who has
Company Stock allocated to his Account on the record date of such meeting a copy
of the proxy solicitation material for the meeting, together with a form
requesting confidential instructions to the Trustee on how to vote the shares of
Company Stock allocated to his Account. Upon receipt of such instructions, the
Trustee will vote the shares allocated to such Participant's or Beneficiary's
Account as instructed by the Participant or Beneficiary. The Trustee will vote
shares of Company Stock for which it does not receive timely instructions from
Participants or Beneficiaries proportionately in the same manner as it votes
shares of Company Stock for which it receives timely instructions from
Participants and Beneficiaries.

      8.2   Tender Offer for Company Stock. In the event of a tender offer for
shares of Company Stock subject to Section 14(d)(1) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934 or subject to Rule 13e-4 promulgated under that Act (as those
provisions may from time to time be amended or replaced by successor provisions
of federal securities laws), the Committee will advise each Participant and
Beneficiary who has shares of Company Stock allocated to his Account in writing
of the terms of the tender offer as soon as practicable after its commencement
and will furnish each Participant and Beneficiary with a form by which he may
instruct the Trustee confidentially to tender shares allocated to his Account.
The Trustee will tender those shares it has been properly instructed to tender,
and will not tender those shares which it has been properly instructed not to
tender or for which it has not received timely instructions from the Participant
or Beneficiary. The number of shares to which a Participant's or Beneficiary's
instructions apply will be the total number of shares allocated to his Account
as of the latest date for which the Committee has records. The Committee will
advise the Trustee of the commencement date of any tender offer and, until
receipt of that advice, the Trustee will not be obligated to take any action
under this Section. Funds received in exchange for tendered stock will be
credited to the Account of the Participant or Beneficiary whose stock was
tendered and will be invested proportionately in the investment funds selected
by the Participant or Beneficiary in his most recent investment direction to the
Trustee.

      8.3   Confidentiality. The Committee will be responsible for establishing
procedures designed to maintain the confidentiality of Participant and
Beneficiary information relating to the purchase, holding and sale of Company
Stock and the exercise of voting, tender and similar rights with respect to
Company Stock, except to the extent such information is necessary to comply with
federal laws or state laws that are not preempted by ERISA.

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                                    ARTICLE 9

                 ADMINISTRATION OF THE PLAN AND TRUST AGREEMENT

      9.1   Appointment of Committee Members. The Board of Directors or the
Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors will appoint the Chairman of an
Administrative Committee, which will consist of three or more members. The
Chairman will appoint the remaining members of the Administrative Committee, who
will hold office at the pleasure of the Chairman. Members of the Committee are
not required to be Employees or Participants. Any member may resign by giving
notice, in writing, filed with the Board or the Chairman.

      9.2   Officers and Employees of the Committee. The Committee will choose a
Secretary, who may be a member of the Committee. The Secretary will keep a
record of the Committee's proceedings and all dates, records and documents
pertaining to the Committee's administration of the Plan. The Committee may
employ and suitably compensate such persons or organizations to render advice
with respect to the duties of the Committee under the Plan as the Committee
determines to be necessary or desirable.

      9.3   Action of the Committee. Action of the Committee may be taken with
or without a meeting of Committee members, provided that action will be taken
only upon the vote or other affirmative expression of a majority of the
Committee's members qualified to vote with respect to such action. The Chairman
of the Committee may execute any certificate or other written direction on
behalf of the Committee. In the event the Committee members qualified to vote on
any question are unable to determine such question by a majority vote or other
affirmative expression of a majority of the Committee members qualified to vote
on such question, such question will be determined by the Board. A member of the
Committee who is a Participant may not vote on any question relating
specifically to himself unless he is the sole member of the Committee.

      9.4   Expenses and Compensation. The expenses of administering the Plan,
including without limitation the expenses of the Committee properly incurred in
the performance of its duties under the Plan, will be paid from the Trust Fund,
and all such expenses paid by the Participating Employers on behalf of the Plan
will be reimbursed from the Trust Fund unless the Participating Employers in
their discretion elect not to submit such expenses for reimbursement.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the members of the Committee will not be
compensated by the Plan for their services as Committee members.

      9.5   General Powers and Duties of the Committee. The Committee will have
the full power and responsibility to administer the Plan and the Trust Agreement
and to construe and apply their provisions. For purposes of ERISA, the Committee
will be the named fiduciary with respect to the operation and administration of
the Plan and the Trust Agreement. In addition, the Committee will have the
powers and duties granted by the terms of the Trust Agreement. The Committee,
and all other persons with discretionary control respecting the operation,
administration, control, and/or management of the Plan, the Trust Agreement,
and/or the Trust Fund, will perform their duties under the Plan and the Trust
Agreement solely in the interests of Participants and their Beneficiaries.

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      9.6   Specific Powers and Duties of the Committee. The Committee will
administer the Plan and the Trust Agreement and will have the authority and
discretion to (i) resolve all questions relating to the eligibility of Employees
to become Participants; (ii) determine the amount of benefits payable to
Participants or their Beneficiaries, and determine the time and manner in which
such benefits are to be paid; (iii) authorize and direct all disbursements by
the Trustee from the Trust Fund; (iv) engage any administrative, legal,
accounting, clerical, or other services it deems appropriate in administering
the Plan or the Trust Agreement; (v) construe and interpret the Plan and the
Trust Agreement, supply omissions from, correct deficiencies in, and resolve
ambiguities in the language of the Plan and the Trust Agreement, and adopt rules
for the administration of the Plan and the Trust Agreement which are not
inconsistent with the terms of such documents; (vi) compile and maintain all
records it determines to be necessary, appropriate or convenient in connection
with the administration of benefit payments; (vii) determine the disposition of
assets in the Trust Fund in the event the Plan is terminated; (viii) review the
performance of the Trustee with respect to the Trustee's administrative duties,
responsibilities and obligations under the Plan and the Trust Agreement, report
to the Board regarding such administrative performance of the Trustee, and
recommend to the Board, if necessary, the removal of the Trustee and the
appointment of a successor Trustee; and (ix) resolve all questions of fact
relating to any matter for which it has administrative responsibility.

      9.7   Allocation of Fiduciary Responsibility. The Committee from time to
time may allocate to one or more of its members and may delegate to any other
persons or organizations any of its rights, powers, duties and responsibilities
with respect to the operation and administration of the Plan and the Trust
Agreement that are permitted to be delegated under ERISA. Any such allocation or
delegation will be made in writing, will be reviewed periodically by the
Committee, and will be terminable upon such notice as the Committee in its
discretion deems reasonable and proper under the circumstances. Whenever a
person or organization has the power and authority under the Plan or the Trust
Agreement to delegate discretionary authority respecting the administration of
the Plan or the Trust Fund to another person or organization, the delegating
party's responsibility with respect to such delegation is limited to the
selection of the person to whom authority is delegated and the periodic review
of such person's performance and compliance with applicable law and regulations.
Any breach of fiduciary responsibility by the person to whom authority has been
delegated which is not proximately caused by the delegating party's failure to
properly select or supervise, and in which breach the delegating party does not
otherwise participate, will not be considered a breach by the delegating party.

      9.8   Information to be Submitted to the Committee. To enable the
Committee to perform its functions, the Participating Employers will supply full
and timely information to the Committee on all matters relating to Employees and
Participants as the Committee may require and will maintain such other records
required by the Committee to determine the benefits due to Participants or their
Beneficiaries under the Plan.

      9.9   Notices, Statements and Reports. The Company will be the
"administrator" of the Plan as defined in ERISA section 3(16)(A) for purposes of
the reporting and disclosure requirements imposed by ERISA and the Code. The
Committee will assist the Company, as requested, in complying with such
reporting and disclosure requirements.

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      9.10  Claims Procedure.

            (a)   Filing Claim for Benefits. If a Participant or Beneficiary
does not receive the benefits which he believes he is entitled to receive under
the Plan, he may file a claim for benefits with the Committee. All claims must
be made in writing and signed by the claimant. If the claimant does not furnish
sufficient information to determine the validity of the claim, the Committee
will indicate to the claimant any additional information which is required.

            (b)   Notification by the Committee. Each claim will be approved or
disapproved by the Committee within 90 days following the receipt of the
information necessary to process the claim, or within 180 days if the Committee
determines that special circumstances require an extension of the 90-day period
and the claimant is notified of the extension within the original 90-day period.
In the event the Committee denies a claim for benefits in whole or in part, the
Committee will notify the claimant in writing of the adverse determination. Such
notice by the Committee will also set forth, in a manner calculated to be
understood by the claimant, the specific reason or reasons for the adverse
determination, reference to the specific Plan provisions on which the
determination is based, a description of any additional material or information
necessary to perfect the claim with an explanation of why such material or
information is necessary, and an explanation of the Plan's claim review
procedure and applicable time limits as set forth in subsection (c) below.

            (c)   Review Procedure. A claimant may appeal an adverse benefit
determination by requesting a review of the decision by the Committee or a
person designated by the Committee, which person will be a named fiduciary under
ERISA section 402(a)(2) for purposes of this Section. An appeal must be
submitted in writing within 60 days after receiving notification of the adverse
determination and must (i) request a review of the claim for benefits under the
Plan, (ii) set forth all of the grounds upon which the claimant's request for
review is based and any facts in support thereof, and (iii) set forth any issues
or comments which the claimant deems pertinent to the appeal. The claimant will
be given the opportunity to submit written comments, documents, records and
other information relating to the claim for benefits, and will be provided, upon
written request and free of charge, reasonable access to and copies of, all
documents, records and other information relevant to the claim for benefits,
provided the Committee or the named fiduciary designated by the Committee finds
the requested documents or materials are relevant to the appeal. The Committee
or the named fiduciary designated by the Committee will make a full and fair
review of each appeal and any materials submitted by the claimant relating to
the claim, without regard to whether the information was submitted or considered
in the initial determination. On the basis of its review, the Committee or the
named fiduciary designated by the Committee will make an independent
determination of the claimant's eligibility for benefits and will act upon each
appeal within 60 days after receipt thereof unless special circumstances require
an extension of the time for processing, in which case a decision will be
rendered as soon as possible but not later than 120 days after the appeal is
received. In the event of such special circumstances, the Committee or the named
fiduciary designated by the Committee will notify the claimant within the
initial 60-day period of the special circumstances that preclude a decision in
the 60-day period. The decision of the Committee or named fiduciary on any claim
for benefits will be final and conclusive upon all parties thereto. In the event
the Committee or named fiduciary denies an appeal in whole or in part, it will
give written notice of the determination to the claimant. Such notice will set
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understood by the claimant, the specific reason or reasons for the adverse
determination, reference to the specific Plan provisions on which the
determination is based, a statement that the claimant is entitled to receive,
upon request and free of charge, access to and copies of all documents, records
and other information relevant to the claim, and a statement of the claimant's
rights to bring an action under ERISA section 502(a), if applicable.

      9.11  Service of Process. The Committee may from time to time designate an
agent of the Plan for the service of legal process. The Committee will cause
such agent to be identified in materials it distributes or causes to be
distributed when such identification is required under applicable law. In the
absence of such a designation, the Company will be the agent of the Plan for the
service of legal process.

      9.12  Correction of Participants' Accounts. If an error or omission is
discovered in the Accounts of a Participant, or in the amount distributed to a
Participant, the Committee will make such equitable adjustments in the records
of the Plan as may be necessary or appropriate to correct such error or omission
as of the Plan Year in which such error or omission is discovered. Further, a
Participating Employer may, in its discretion, make a special contribution to
the Plan which will be allocated by the Committee only to the Account of one or
more Participants to correct such error or omission.

      9.13  Payment to Minors or Other Persons Under Legal Disability. If any
benefit becomes payable to a minor, payment of such benefit will be made only to
the guardian of the person or the estate of the minor, provided the guardian
acknowledges in writing, in a form acceptable to the Committee, receipt of the
payment on behalf of the minor. If any benefit becomes payable to any other
person under a legal disability, payment of such benefit will be made only to
the conservator or the guardian of the estate of such person appointed by a
court of competent jurisdiction. Any payment made in accordance with the
provisions of this Section on behalf of a minor or other person under a legal
disability will fully discharge the Plan's obligation to such person.

      9.14  Uniform Application of Rules and Policies. The Committee in
exercising its discretion granted under any of the provisions of the Plan or the
Trust Agreement will do so only in accordance with rules and policies
established by it which will be uniformly applicable to all Participants and
Beneficiaries.

      9.15  Funding Policy. The Plan is to be funded through Participating
Employer contributions and earnings on such contributions; and benefits will be
paid to Participants and Beneficiaries as provided in the Plan.

      9.16  The Trust Fund. The Trust Fund will be held by the Trustee for the
exclusive benefit of Participants and Beneficiaries. The assets held in the
Trust Fund will be invested and reinvested in accordance with the terms of the
Trust Agreement, which is hereby incorporated into and made a part of the Plan.
All benefits will be paid solely out of the Trust Fund, and no Participating
Employer will be otherwise liable for benefits payable under the Plan.

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                                   ARTICLE 10

                        LIMITATIONS ON CONTRIBUTIONS AND
                      ALLOCATIONS TO PARTICIPANTS' ACCOUNTS

      10.1  Priority over Other Contribution and Allocation Provisions. The
provisions set forth in this Article will supersede any conflicting provisions
of Articles 3 and 4.

      10.2  Definitions Used in this Article. The following words and phrases,
when used with initial capital letters, will have the meanings set forth below.

            (a)   "Annual Addition" means the sum of the following amounts with
respect to all Qualified Plans and Welfare Benefit Funds maintained by the
Controlled Group Members:

                  (i)   the amount of Controlled Group Member contributions with
      respect to the Limitation Year allocated to the Participant's account;

                  (ii)  the amount of any forfeitures for the Limitation Year
      allocated to the Participant's account;

                  (iii) the amount, if any, carried forward pursuant to Section
      10.4 or a similar provision in another Qualified Plan and allocated to the
      Participant's account;

                  (iv)  the amount of a Participant's voluntary nondeductible
      contributions for the Limitation Year, provided, however, that the Annual
      Addition for any Limitation Year beginning before January 1, 1987, will
      not be recomputed to treat all of the Participant's nondeductible
      voluntary contributions as part of the Annual Addition;

                  (v)   the amount allocated after March 31, 1984, to an
      individual medical benefit account (as defined in Code section 415(l)(2))
      which is part of a Defined Benefit Plan or an annuity plan; and

                  (vi)  the amount derived from contributions paid or accrued
      after December 31, 1985, in taxable years ending after such date that are
      attributable to post-retirement medical benefits allocated to the separate
      account of a key employee (as defined in Code section 419A(d)(3)) under a
      Welfare Benefit Fund. A Participant's Annual Addition will not include any
      nonvested amounts restored to his account following his reemployment
      before incurring five consecutive One Year Breaks in Service, and a
      corrective allocation pursuant to Section 9.12 will be considered an
      Annual Addition for the Limitation Year to which it relates.

            (b)   "Average Contribution Percentage" means the average of the
Contribution Percentages of each Participant in a group of Participants.

            (c)   "Average Deferral Percentage" means the average of the
Deferral Percentages of each Participant in a group of Participants.

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            (d)   "Compensation" means the wages as defined in Code section
3401(a) for purposes of income tax withholding at the source (but determined
without regard to any rules that limit the remuneration included in wages based
on the nature or location of the employment or services performed) that are paid
to a Participant by the Participating Employers. In addition, Compensation
includes any contributions made by the Participating Employers on behalf of an
Employee pursuant to a deferral election under the Plan or under any other
employee benefit plan containing a cash or deferred arrangement under Code
section 401(k) and any amounts that would have been received as cash but for an
election to receive benefits under a cafeteria plan meeting the requirements of
Code section 125. Effective for Plan Years beginning after December 31, 2000,
Compensation includes elective amounts that are not includible in the gross
income of the Employee by reason of Code section 132(f)(4). The annual
Compensation of an Employee taken into account for any purpose will not exceed
$200,000 for any Plan Year ending before January 1, 1994, as adjusted in
regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and will not exceed
$150,000 for any Plan Year beginning after December 31, 1993, and ending before
January 1, 2002, as adjusted in regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the
Treasury. The annual Compensation of an Employee taken into account for any
purpose will not exceed $200,000 for any Plan Year beginning after December 31,
2001, as adjusted for cost-of-living increases in accordance with Code section
401(a)(17). For Plan Years beginning before January 1, 1997, for purposes of
applying the foregoing limitations, if an Employee is a Highly Compensated
Employee who is either (i) a 5% owner, determined in accordance with Code
section 414(q) and the Treasury Regulations thereunder or (ii) one of the 10
most highly compensated employees ranked on the basis of Compensation paid by
the Controlled Group during the year, such Highly Compensated Employee and the
members of his family (as hereafter defined) will be treated as a single
employee and the Compensation of each member of the family will be aggregated
with the Compensation of the Highly Compensated Employee. The limitation on
Compensation will be allocated among such Highly Compensated Employee and his
family members in proportion to each individual's Compensation. For purposes of
this Section 10.2(d), the term "family" means an Employee's spouse and any
lineal descendants who are under age 19 at the end of the Plan Year in question.

            (e)   "Contribution Percentage" means the ratio (expressed as a
percentage) determined by dividing the Matching Contributions made to the Plan
on behalf of a Participant who is eligible to receive an allocation of Matching
Contributions for a Plan Year (but only to the extent such Matching
Contributions are not taken into account in determining the Participant's
Deferral Percentage for the Plan Year) by the Participant's Compensation for the
Plan Year. A Participant is eligible to receive an allocation of Matching
Contributions for purposes of determining his Contribution Percentage even
though no Matching Contributions are made to the Plan on his behalf because of
the suspension of his Deferral Contributions under the terms of the Plan,
because of an election not to participate, or because of the limitations
contained in Sections 10.3 through 10.5 of the Plan. Deferral Contributions may
also be included in the Contribution Percentages used to satisfy the Average
Contribution Percentage Test described in Section 10.7(a) of the Plan, provided
that the Average Deferral Percentage Test described in Section 10.6(a) of the
Plan is met before such Deferral Contributions are included in the Average
Contribution Percentage Test and continues to be met following the exclusion of
such Deferral Contributions.

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            (f)   "Deferral Percentage" means the ratio (expressed as a
percentage) determined by dividing the Deferral Contributions made to the Plan
on behalf of a Participant who is eligible to make Deferral Contributions for
all or any portion of a Plan Year by the Participant's Compensation for the Plan
Year. In addition, if the Matching Contributions to the Plan for any Plan Year
satisfy the requirements of Code section 401(k)(2)(B) and (C), a Participant's
Deferral Percentage will be determined by aggregating the Deferral Contributions
and the Matching Contributions made to the Plan on his behalf for such Plan
Year, unless such aggregation is prohibited in regulations prescribed by the
Secretary of the Treasury. A Participant is eligible to make Deferral
Contributions for purposes of determining his Deferral Percentage even though he
does not make Deferral Contributions because of the suspension of his Deferral
Contributions under the terms of the Plan, because of an election not to
participate, or because of the limitations contained in Sections 10.3 through
10.5 of the Plan. A Deferral Contribution will be taken into account for a Plan
Year only if (i) the allocation of such contribution is not contingent on
participation in the Plan or the performance of services after the Plan Year,
(ii) such contribution is paid to the Trustee within 12 months after the end of
the Plan Year, and (iii) such contribution relates to Compensation that either
would have been received by the Participant in the Plan Year, or that is
attributable to services performed during the Plan Year and that would have been
received within two and one-half months after the Plan Year, but for the
election to defer. Deferral Contributions that are taken into account in the
Average Contribution Percentage Test described in Section 10.7(a) of the Plan
will be excluded from the Deferral Percentage (provided the Actual Deferral
Percentage Test described in Section 10.6(a) of the Plan is satisfied both with
and without exclusion of such Deferral Contributions).

            (g)   "Defined Benefit Dollar Limitation" means for any Plan Year,
$160,000, as adjusted, effective January 1 of each year, under Code section
415(d) in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury prescribes.

            (h)   "Defined Benefit Fraction" means a fraction, the numerator of
which is the Projected Annual Benefit of a Participant under all Defined Benefit
Plans maintained by a Controlled Group Member determined as of the close of the
Limitation Year and the denominator of which is the lesser of (i) 140% of the
Participant's average Includable Compensation that may be taken into account for
the Limitation Year under Code section 415(b)(1)(B), or (ii) 125% of the Defined
Benefit Dollar Limitation, determined as of the close of the Limitation Year. If
the Participant was a participant in a Defined Benefit Plan maintained by a
Controlled Group Member in existence on July 1, 1982, or on May 6, 1986, the
denominator of the Defined Benefit Fraction will not be less than 125% of the
greater of the Participant's accrued Projected Annual Benefit under such plan as
of the end of the last Limitation Year beginning before January 1, 1983, or his
accrued Projected Annual Benefit of the end of the last Limitation Year
beginning January 1, 1987. The preceding sentence applies only if the Defined
Benefit Plan satisfied the requirements of Code section 415 as in effect at the
end of such Limitation Year.

            (i)   "Defined Benefit Plan" means a Qualified Plan other than a
Defined Contribution Plan.

            (j)   "Defined Contribution Dollar Limitation" means, for any
Limitation Year, $40,000, as adjusted for increases in the cost-of-living under
Code section 415(d). If a short

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Limitation Year is created because of a Plan amendment changing the Limitation
Year to a different 12-consecutive month period, the Defined Contribution Dollar
Limitation for the short Limitation Year will not exceed the amount determined
in the preceding sentences multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is
the number of months in the short Limitation Year and the denominator of which
is 12.

            (k)   "Defined Contribution Fraction" means a fraction, the
numerator of which is the sum of the Annual Additions allocated to the
Participant's accounts for the applicable Limitation Year and each prior
Limitation Year, and the denominator of which is the sum of the lesser of the
following products for each Limitation Year in which the Participant was an
Employee (regardless of whether a Defined Contribution Plan was in existence for
such Limitation Year) (i) the Defined Contribution Dollar Limitation (determined
for this purpose without regard to the provisions of Code section 415(c)(6))
effective for the Limitation Year multiplied by 125%, or (ii) 35% of the
Participant's Includable Compensation for such Limitation Year.

            (l)   "Defined Contribution Plan" means a Qualified Plan described
in Code section 414(i).

            (m)   "Family Member" means, with respect to an Employee, the
Employee's spouse and lineal ascendants or descendants and the spouses of such
lineal ascendants or descendants.

            (n)   "Highly Compensated Employee" means any Employee who performs
services for a Controlled Group Member during the determination year (as
hereinafter defined) and who during the look-back year (as hereinafter defined):
(i) received Compensation from a Controlled Group Member in excess of $75,000
(as adjusted pursuant to Code section 415(d)); (ii) received Compensation from a
Controlled Group Member in excess of $50,000 (as adjusted pursuant to Code
section 415(d)) and was a member of the top-paid group (as hereafter defined)
for such year; or (iii) was an officer of a Controlled Group Member and received
Compensation during such year that is greater than 50% of the dollar limitation
in effect under Code section 415(b)(1)(A) (but limited to no more than 50
Employees or, if lesser, the greater of three Employees or 10% of the
Employees). The term Highly Compensated Employee also includes: (i) an Employee
who is both described in the preceding sentence if the term "determination year"
is substituted for the term "look-back year" and the Employee is one of the 100
Employees who received the most Compensation from the Controlled Group during
the determination year; and (ii) an Employee who is a 5-percent owner at any
time during the look-back year or determination year. If no officer has
satisfied the Compensation requirement of (ii) above during either a
determination year or look-back year, the officer with the highest Compensation
for such year will be treated as a Highly Compensated Employee. For purposes of
this subsection, the determination year is the Plan Year, and the look-back year
is the twelve-month period immediately preceding the determination year. A
Highly Compensated Employee also includes any Employee who separated from
service (or was deemed to have separated) prior to the determination year,
performs no services for a Controlled Group Member during the determination
year, and was a Highly Compensated Employee for either the separation year or
any determination year ending on or after the Employee's 55th birthday. The term
"top-paid group" means that group of Employees consisting of the top 20% of such
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the basis of Compensation received during the Plan Year. For purposes of this
subsection, Compensation will include Deferral Contributions under the Plan or
any other 401(k) arrangement and any amounts that would have been received as
cash but for an election to receive benefits under a Code section 125 cafeteria
plan. All determinations under this definition will be made in accordance with
Code section 414(q) and the Treasury Regulations thereunder.

                  For Plan Years beginning after December 31, 1996, the term
"Highly Compensated Employee" means an Employee who during the current or
preceding Plan Year was a 5-percent owner of a Controlled Group Member, or who
for the preceding Plan Year had Compensation in excess of $80,000 (as adjusted
pursuant to Code Section 415(d)).

            (o)   "Includable Compensation" means an Employee's wages as defined
in Code section 3401(a) for purposes of income tax withholding at the source
(but determined without regard to any rules that limit the remuneration included
in wages based on the nature or location of the employment or services
performed) that are paid to a Participant by the Participating Employers. In
addition, effective for Plan Years beginning after December 31, 1997,
Compensation includes any contributions made by the Participating Employers on
behalf of an Employee pursuant to a deferral election under the Plan or under
any other employee benefit plan containing a cash or deferred arrangement under
Code section 401(k) and any amounts that would have been received as cash but
for an election to receive benefits under a cafeteria plan meeting the
requirements of Code section 125. Effective for Plan Years beginning after
December 31, 2000, Compensation includes any elective amounts that are not
includible in the gross income of the Employee by reason of Code section
132(f)(4).

                  The annual Includable Compensation of an Employee taken into
account for any purpose for any Plan Year will not exceed $200,000 for any Plan
Year ending before January 1, 1994, as adjusted in regulations prescribed by the
Secretary of the Treasury, and will not exceed $150,000 for any Plan Year
beginning after December 31, 1993, and ending before January 1, 2002, as
adjusted in regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. The annual
Includable Compensation of an Employee taken into account for any purpose will
not exceed $200,000 for any Plan Year beginning after December 31, 2001, as
adjusted for cost-of-living increases in accordance with Code section
401(a)(17). For Plan Years beginning before January 1, 1997, for purposes of
applying the foregoing limitations, if an Employee is a Highly Compensated
Employee who is either (i) a 5% owner, determined in accordance with Code
section 414(q) and the Treasury Regulations thereunder or (ii) one of the 10
most highly compensated employees ranked on the basis of Compensation paid by
the Controlled Group during the year, such Highly Compensated Employee and the
members of his family (as hereafter defined) will be treated as a single
employee and the Compensation of each member of the family will be aggregated
with the Compensation of the Highly Compensated Employee. For purposes of this
Section 10.2(o), the term "family" means an Employee's spouse and any lineal
descendants who are under age 19 at the end of the Plan Year in question.

            (p)   "Limitation Year" means the 12-consecutive-month period used
by a Qualified Plan for purposes of computing the limitations on benefits and
annual additions under Code section 415. The Limitation Year for this Plan is
the Plan Year.

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            (q)   "Matching Contribution" means the Participating Employer
matching contribution made to the Plan on behalf of a Participant pursuant to
Article 3.

            (r)   "Maximum Annual Addition" means with respect to a Participant
for any Limitation Year an amount equal to the lesser of (i) the Defined
Contribution Dollar Limitation or (ii) 100% of the Participant's Includable
Compensation.

            (s)   "Nonhighly Compensated Employee" means an Employee who is
neither a Highly Compensated Employee nor, for Plan Years beginning before
January 1, 1997, a Family Member of a Highly Compensated Employee.

            (t)   "Projected Annual Benefit" means the annual benefit (as
defined in Code section 415(b)(2)) to which a Participant would be entitled
under the terms of a Defined Benefit Plan maintained by a Controlled Group
Member, assuming that the Participant will continue employment until his normal
retirement age under the Defined Benefit Plan (or current age, if later) and
that the Participant's Includable Compensation for the current Limitation Year
and all other relevant factors used to determine benefits under the Defined
Benefit Plan will remain constant for all future Limitation Years.

            (u)   "Welfare Benefit Fund" means an organization described in
paragraph (7), (9), (17) or (20) of Code section 501(c), a trust, corporation or
other organization not exempt from federal income tax, or to the extent provided
in Treasury Regulations, any account held for an employer by any person, which
is part of a plan of an employer through which the employer provides benefits to
employees or their beneficiaries, other than a benefit to which Code sections
83(h), 404 (determined without regard to section 404(b)(2)) or 404A applies, or
to which an election under Code section 463 applies.

      10.3  General Allocation Limitation. The Annual Addition of a Participant
for any Limitation Year will not exceed the Maximum Annual Addition. If, except
for the application of this section, the Annual Addition of a Participant for
any Limitation Year would exceed the Maximum Annual Addition, the excess Annual
Addition attributable to this Plan will not be allocated to the Participant's
Account for the Plan Year included in such Limitation Year, but will be subject
to the provisions of Section 10.4. The limitations contained in this Article
will apply on an aggregate basis to all Defined Contribution Plans and all
Defined Benefit Plans (whether or not any of such plans have terminated)
established by the Controlled Group Members.

      10.4  Excess Allocations.

            (a)   Participants Covered by One Defined Contribution Plan. If the
Participant is not covered under another Defined Contribution Plan or a Welfare
Benefit Fund maintained by a Controlled Group Member during the Limitation Year
and the amount allocated or otherwise allocable to his Account would exceed the
Maximum Annual Addition, the Participant's Deferral Contributions will be
returned to the Participant (together with earnings, if any, attributable to the
returned Deferral Contributions) to the extent necessary to reduce the excess
Annual Addition. If an excess Annual Addition remains after the return of such
Deferral Contributions plus earnings, the Participating Employer contributions
and forfeitures which would continue to

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cause the Participant's Annual Addition to exceed the Maximum Annual Addition
will be successively allocated in the manner described in Section 4.2 among the
Accounts of eligible Participants whose Annual Additions do not exceed the
Maximum Annual Addition. If, after such allocations have been made, there remain
Participating Employer contributions or forfeitures which cannot be allocated
without causing the Annual Addition of a Participant to exceed the Maximum
Annual Addition, the forfeitures which cause the Annual Addition to exceed the
Maximum Annual Addition and the Participating Employer contributions which
result from a reasonable error in estimating the Participant's Includable
Compensation or from any other limited facts and circumstances which the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue finds justifiable under section 1.415-6(b)(6)
of the Treasury Regulations and which cause the Participant's Annual Addition to
exceed the Maximum Annual Addition will be held in a suspense account in the
Trust Fund to be carried forward and used in subsequent Limitation Years to
reduce Participating Employer contributions to the Plan. If a suspense account
is in existence at any time during a Limitation Year, all amounts in the
suspense account must be allocated before any contributions which would
constitute Annual Additions will be made to the Plan for that Limitation Year.
Such suspense account will not participate in the allocation of the net income
or net loss of the Trust Fund.

            (b)   Participants Covered by Two or More Defined Contribution
Plans. If, in addition to this Plan, the Participant is covered under another
Defined Contribution Plan or a Welfare Benefit Fund maintained by a Controlled
Group Member during the Limitation Year, the following provisions will apply.
The Annual Addition which may be credited to a Participant's Account under this
Plan for any such Limitation Year will not exceed the Maximum Annual Addition
reduced by the Annual Addition credited to a Participant's accounts under the
other Defined Contribution Plans and Welfare Benefit Funds for the same
Limitation Year. If the Annual Addition with respect to the Participant under
the other Defined Contribution Plans and Welfare Benefit Funds maintained by a
Controlled Group Member is less than the Maximum Annual Addition and the
Participating Employer contribution that would otherwise be contributed or
allocated to the Participant's Account under this Plan would cause the Annual
Addition for the Limitation Year to exceed the Maximum Annual Addition, the
amount to be contributed or allocated to the Participant's Account under this
Plan will be reduced so that the Annual Addition under all such Defined
Contribution Plans and Welfare Benefit Funds for the Limitation Year will equal
the Maximum Annual Addition. If the aggregate Annual Addition with respect to
the Participant under such other Defined Contribution Plans and Welfare Benefit
Funds is equal to or greater than the Maximum Annual Addition, no amount will be
contributed or allocated to the Participant's Account under this Plan for the
Limitation Year. An excess Annual Addition will be reduced in the manner
described in subsection (c).

            (c)   Reduction of Excess Allocations. As soon as is
administratively feasible after the end of the Limitation Year, the Maximum
Annual Addition for the Limitation Year will be determined on the basis of the
Participant's Includable Compensation for the Limitation Year. If a
Participant's Annual Addition under this Plan and the other Defined Contribution
Plans and Welfare Benefit Funds maintained by Controlled Group Members would
result in the Annual Addition exceeding the Maximum Annual Addition for the
Limitation Year, the excess amount will be deemed to consist of the Annual
Addition last allocated. In making this determination, the Annual Addition
attributable to a Welfare Benefit Fund will be deemed to have been

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allocated first regardless of the actual date of allocation. If an excess amount
was allocated to a Participant on an allocation date of this Plan that coincides
with an allocation date of another plan, the excess amount attributed to this
Plan will be the product of (i) the total excess amount allocated as of such
date and (ii) the ratio of the Annual Addition allocated to the Participant for
the Limitation Year as of such date under this Plan to the total Annual Addition
allocated to the Participant for the Limitation Year as of such date under this
and all the other Defined Contribution Plans. Any excess amount attributed to
this Plan will be disposed of in the manner described in subsection (a).

      10.5  Aggregate Benefit Limitation. The provisions of this Section will
apply only to Participants whose benefits begin to be distributed prior to
January 1, 2000. If a Controlled Group Member maintains, or at any time
maintained, one or more Defined Benefit Plans covering any Participant in this
Plan, the sum of the Defined Benefit Fraction and the Defined Contribution
Fraction for any Limitation Year will equal no more than one (1.0). The
provisions of the Defined Benefit Plans will govern the order of reduction of
Annual Additions or benefit accruals necessary to meet this limitation. If the
provisions of the Defined Benefit Plans are silent, the current Annual Addition
under this Plan will be reduced first, and then the rate of accrual under the
Defined Benefit Plans will be reduced, if necessary to meet this limitation. If
the Defined Contribution Plans taken into account in determining the
Participant's Annual Addition under this Article satisfied the requirements of
Code section 415 as in effect for all Limitation Years beginning before January
1, 1987, an amount will be subtracted from the numerator of the Defined
Contribution Fraction (not exceeding such numerator) as prescribed by the
Secretary of the Treasury so that the sum of the Defined Contribution Fraction
and the Defined Benefit Fraction does not exceed 1.0. For purposes of this
Section, a Participant's voluntary nondeductible contributions to a Defined
Benefit Plan will be treated as being part of a separate Defined Contribution
Plan.

      10.6  Limitation on Deferral Contributions.

            (a)   Average Deferral Percentage Test. Notwithstanding any other
provision of the Plan, the Average Deferral Percentage for a Plan Year for
Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees will not exceed the greater
of: (i) the Average Deferral Percentage of Participants who are Nonhighly
Compensated Employees multiplied by 1.25; or (ii) the lesser of (A) the Average
Deferral Percentage of Participants who are Nonhighly Compensated Employees plus
two percentage points or (B) the Average Deferral Percentage of Participants who
are Nonhighly Compensated Employees multiplied by 2.0. For Plan Years beginning
on or after January 1, 1997, this provision will constitute an election to use
the "current year" Average Deferral Percentage testing method.

                  For Plan Years beginning before January 1, 1997, and
notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, the Average Deferral Percentage
for a Plan Year for Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees will not
exceed the greater of: (i) the Average Deferral Percentage for Participants who
are Nonhighly Compensated Employees multiplied by 1.25; or (ii) the lesser of
(A) the Average Deferral Percentage for Participants who are Nonhighly
Compensated Employees plus two percentage points or (B) the Average Deferral
Percentage for Participants who are Nonhighly Compensated Employees multiplied
by 2.0.

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            (b)   Suspension of Deferral Contributions. If at any time during a
Plan Year the Committee determines, on the basis of estimates made from
information then available, that the limitation described in subsection (a)
above will not be met for the Plan Year, the Committee in its discretion may
reduce or suspend the Deferral Contributions of one or more Participants who are
Highly Compensated Employees to the extent necessary (i) to enable the Plan to
meet such limitation or (ii) to reduce the amount of excess Deferral
Contributions that would otherwise be distributed pursuant to subsection (c)
below.

            (c)   Reduction of Excess Deferral Contributions. If, for any Plan
Year beginning on or after January 1, 1997, the Average Deferral Percentage for
Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees exceeds the limitation
described in Section 10.6(a) above, the excess contributions will be distributed
to the Highly Compensated Employees on the basis of the respective portions of
the excess contributions attributable to each such Highly Compensated Employee.
For purposes of this subsection, excess contributions means, for a Plan Year,
the excess of (i) the aggregate amount of Deferral Contributions paid to the
Trust on behalf of Highly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year, over (ii) the
maximum amount of Deferral Contributions permitted for such Plan Year under
Section 10.6(a) (determined by reducing Deferral Contributions made on behalf of
Highly Compensated Employees in order of the Deferral Percentages beginning with
the highest of such percentages). Such excess contributions will be distributed
on the basis of the dollar amount of Deferral Contributions for each such
Participant (as hereinafter provided) until the aggregate amount of excess
contributions has been distributed. The Deferral Contributions of the Highly
Compensated Employee with the highest dollar amount of Deferral Contributions
will be reduced first by the amount required to cause that Participant's
Deferral Contributions to equal the dollar amount of the Deferral Contributions
of the Highly Compensated Employee with the next highest dollar amount, and this
process will be repeated until the total amount of excess Deferral Contributions
has been distributed. Upon distribution of the total excess Deferral
Contributions in this manner, the Plan will be treated as satisfying the
limitations of subsection (a) above. Matching Contributions made with respect to
a Participant's excess Deferral Contributions will be forfeited and applied as
provided in Section 5.4.

                  If, for any Plan Year beginning before January 1, 1997, the
Average Deferral Percentage for Participants who are Highly Compensated
Employees exceeds the limitation described in subsection (a) above, the Deferral
Percentage for such Participants will be reduced by distributing the excess
Deferral Contributions to such Participants. Distribution of excess Deferral
Contributions will be made on the basis of the Deferral Contributions made by or
on behalf of Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees, beginning first
with such Participants whose Deferral Percentage is the highest, until the
limitation in Section 10.6(a) is satisfied. The highest Deferral Percentage will
be reduced until the limitation in Section 10.6(a) is satisfied or the
percentage equals the next highest percentage, and the process will be repeated
until such limitation is satisfied.

                  All distributions under this subsection will be increased by
Trust Fund earnings and decreased by Trust Fund losses for the Plan Year and for
the period between the end of the Plan Year and the date of distribution and
will be made within two and one-half months following the close of the Plan
Year, if practicable, but in no event later than the last day of the immediately
following Plan Year. The amount of excess Deferral Contributions

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distributed pursuant to this Section with respect to a Participant for the Plan
Year will be reduced by any Deferral Contributions previously distributed to the
Participant for the same Plan Year pursuant to Section 3.1(c).

            (d)   Determination of Earnings and Losses. The earnings and losses
of the Trust Fund for the Plan Year allocable to the portion of a Participant's
Deferral Contributions that are distributed pursuant to subsection (c) above
will be determined by multiplying the Trust Fund earnings or losses for the Plan
Year allocable to the Participant's Deferral Contribution Account by a fraction,
the numerator of which is the amount of Deferral Contributions to be distributed
to the Participant and the denominator of which is the balance of the
Participant's Deferral Contribution Account on the last day of the Plan Year,
reduced by the earnings and increased by the losses allocable to such Account
for the Plan Year. The earnings and losses of the Trust Fund allocable to the
Participant's Deferral Contributions that are distributed pursuant to subsection
(c) for the period between the end of the Plan Year and the date of such
distribution will be determined in accordance with regulations prescribed by the
Secretary of the Treasury interpreting Code section 401(k).

            (e)   Discriminatory Matching Contributions. If the allocation of
Matching Contributions to a Participant's Matching Contribution Account results
in a discriminatory matching contribution (as determined under Code sections
401(a)(4) or 401(m) and the regulations thereunder) for such Participant because
the Matching Contribution relates to a Deferral Contribution that exceeds the
limitations described in Section 3.1(c) or this Section 10.6, or because of any
other reason, and such discriminatory matching contribution cannot be
distributed as an excess Matching Contribution pursuant to Section 10.7, such
discriminatory matching contribution, or the portion thereof that results in
prohibited discrimination, will be forfeited notwithstanding any other provision
of the Plan to the contrary.

      10.7  Limitation on Matching Contributions.

            (a)   Average Contribution Percentage Test. Notwithstanding any
other provision of the Plan, the Average Contribution Percentage for a Plan Year
for Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees will not exceed the
greater of: (i) the Average Contribution Percentage for Participants who are
Nonhighly Compensated Employees multiplied by 1.25; or (ii) the lesser of (A)
the Average Contribution Percentage for Participants who are Nonhighly
Compensated Employees plus two percentage points or (B) the Average Contribution
Percentage for Participants who are Nonhighly Compensated Employees multiplied
by 2.0. For Plan Years beginning on or after January 1, 1997, this provision
will constitute an election to use the "current year" Average Contribution
Percentage testing method.

                  For Plan Years beginning before January 1, 1997, and
notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, the Average Contribution
Percentage for a Plan Year for Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees
will not exceed the greater of: (i) the Average Contribution Percentage for
Participants who are Nonhighly Compensated Employees multiplied by 1.25; or (ii)
the lesser of (A) the Average Contribution Percentage for Participants who are
Nonhighly Compensated Employees plus two percentage points or (B) the Average
Contribution Percentage for Participants who are Nonhighly Compensated Employees
multiplied by 2.0.

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            (b)   Suspension of Matching Contributions. If at any time during a
Plan Year the Committee determines, on the basis of estimates made from
information then available, that the limitation described in subsection (a)
above will not be met for the Plan Year, the Committee in its discretion may
reduce or suspend the Matching Contributions of one or more Participants who are
Highly Compensated Employees to the extent necessary (i) to enable the Plan to
meet such limitation or (ii) to reduce the amount of Excess Matching
Contributions that would otherwise be forfeited or distributed pursuant to
subsection (c) below.

            (c)   Reduction of Excess Matching Contributions. If, for any Plan
Year beginning on or after January 1, 1997, the Average Contribution Percentage
for Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees exceeds the limitation
described in Section 10.7(a) above, the dollar amount of excess Matching
Contributions will be forfeited (if forfeitable) or distributed (if not
forfeitable) to the Highly Compensated Employees on the basis of the respective
portions of the excess Matching Contributions attributable to each such Highly
Compensated Employee until the aggregate amount of excess Matching Contributions
has been forfeited or distributed. For purposes of this subsection, excess
Matching Contributions means, for a Plan Year, the excess of (i) the aggregate
amount of Matching Contributions actually made on behalf of Highly Compensated
Employees for the Plan Year, over (ii) the maximum amount of such contributions
permitted for such Plan Year under Section 10.7(a) (determined by reducing
Matching Contributions made on behalf of Highly Compensated Employees in order
of the Contribution Percentages beginning with the highest of such percentages).
Such excess Matching Contributions will be forfeited or distributed on the basis
of the dollar amount of Matching Contributions for each such Participant (as
hereinafter provided) until the aggregate amount of excess Matching
Contributions has been forfeited or distributed. The Matching Contributions of
the Highly Compensated Employee with the highest dollar amount of Matching
Contributions will be reduced first by the amount required to cause that
Participant's Matching Contributions to equal the dollar amount of the Matching
Contributions of the Highly Compensated Employee with the next highest dollar
amount, and this process will be repeated until the total amount of excess
Matching Contributions has been forfeited or distributed. Upon forfeiture or
distribution of the total excess Matching Contributions in this manner, the Plan
will be treated as satisfying the limitations of subsection (a) above.

                  If, for any Plan Year beginning before January 1, 1997, the
Average Contribution Percentage for Participants who are Highly Compensated
Employees exceeds the limitation described in subsection (a) above, the
Contribution Percentage for such Participants will be reduced by distributing
the excess Matching Contributions to such Participants. Distribution of excess
Matching Contributions will be made on the basis of the Matching Contributions
made by or on behalf of Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees,
beginning first with such Participants whose Contribution Percentage is the
highest, until the limitation in Section 10.7(a) is satisfied. The highest
Contribution Percentage will be reduced until the limitation in Section 10.7(a)
is satisfied or the percentage equals the next highest percentage, and the
process will be repeated until such limitation is satisfied.

                  All distributions under this subsection will be increased by
Trust Fund earnings and decreased by Trust Fund losses for the Plan Year and for
the period between the end of the Plan Year and the date of distribution and
will be made within two and one-half

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months following the close of the Plan Year, if practicable, but in no event
later than the last day of the immediately following Plan Year.

            (d)   Determination of Earnings and Losses. The earnings and losses
of the Trust Fund for the Plan Year allocable to the portion of a Participant's
Matching Contributions that are forfeited pursuant to Section 10.6 or
distributed pursuant to subsection (c) above will be determined by multiplying
the Trust Fund earnings or losses for the Plan Year allocable to the
Participant's Matching Contribution Account by a fraction, the numerator of
which is the amount of Matching Contributions to be distributed or forfeited and
the denominator of which is the balance of the Participant's Matching
Contribution Account on the last day of the Plan Year, reduced by the earnings
and increased by the losses allocable to such Account for the Plan Year. The
earnings and losses of the Trust Fund allocable to a Participant's Matching
Contributions that are forfeited pursuant to Section 10.6 or distributed
pursuant to subsection (c) above for the period between the end of the Plan Year
and the date of such distribution or forfeiture will be determined in accordance
with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury interpreting Code
sections 401(k) and 401(m).

      10.8  Aggregation and Disaggregation Rules.

            (a)   Code Section 415. For purposes of the allocation limitations
under Code section 415 set forth in this Article, (i) all Defined Benefit Plans
ever maintained by a Controlled Group Member will be treated as one Defined
Benefit Plan, and all Defined Contribution Plans ever maintained by a Controlled
Group Member will be treated as one Defined Contribution Plan, and (ii)
Controlled Group Members will be determined in accordance with the 50% control
rule of Code section 415(h).

            (b)   Code Section 401(k). For purposes of the limitation on
Deferral Contributions set forth in this Article, the Average Deferral
Percentage for any Participant who is a Highly Compensated Employee for the Plan
Year and who is eligible to have deferral contributions allocated to his account
under two or more plans or arrangements described in Code section 401(k) that
are maintained by the Company or any Controlled Group Member will be determined
as if all such deferral contributions were made under a single arrangement
(unless such plans or arrangements may not be permissively aggregated under
applicable regulations). Plans that are aggregated for purposes of satisfying
the minimum coverage rules of Code section 410(b) (other than for purposes of
the average benefits percentage test) will be treated as a single plan for such
purposes. For purposes of the limitation on Deferral Contributions set forth in
this Article, the aggregation and disaggregation of plans will be determined
under the rules of Code section 401(k) and the regulations thereunder.

            (c)   Code Section 401(m). The Contribution Percentage of a
Participant who is a Highly Compensated Employee for a Plan Year and who is
eligible to make voluntary Employee contributions or receive deferral
contributions or matching employer contributions allocated to his account under
two or more Defined Contribution Plans maintained by the Company or a Controlled
Group Member will be determined as if all such contributions were made to a
single plan (unless such plans may not be permissively aggregated under
applicable regulations). Plans that are aggregated for purposes of satisfying
the minimum coverage rules of Code section 410(b) (other than for purposes of
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treated as a single plan for such purposes. For purposes of the limitation on
Matching Contributions set forth in this Article, the aggregation and
disaggregation of plans will be determined under the rules of Code section
401(m) and the regulations thereunder.

            (d)   Family Members. For Plan Years beginning before January 1,
1997, for purposes of determining the Contribution Percentage or the Deferral
Percentage of a Participant who is both a Highly Compensated Employee and either
(i) a 5-percent owner, determined in accordance with Code section 414(q) and the
Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder or (ii) one of the 10 most highly
compensated Employees ranked on the basis of Compensation paid by the Controlled
Group during the year, determined in accordance with Code section 414(q) and the
Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder, the Matching Contributions,
Deferral Contributions, and Compensation of such Participant will include the
Matching Contributions, Deferral Contributions and Compensation of Family
Members, and Family Members will be disregarded in determining the Contribution
Percentage or the Deferral Percentage of Participants who are not such Highly
Compensated Employees.

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                                   ARTICLE 11

                        RESTRICTIONS ON DISTRIBUTIONS TO
                         PARTICIPANTS AND BENEFICIARIES

      11.1  Priority over Other Distribution Provisions. The provisions set
forth in this Article will supersede any conflicting provisions of Article 6 or
Article 7.

      11.2  General Restrictions.

            (a)   Distributions Prior to a Severance From Employment. Except for
distributions permitted under Article 6 with respect to Participants who attain
age 59 1/2 or suffer a hardship, a Participant's interest in the Plan will not
be distributed before the Participant's severance from employment with all
Controlled Group Members, disability or death, unless the Plan is terminated
without the establishment or maintenance by the Participating Employers of
another defined contribution plan (other than an employee stock ownership plan
as defined in Code section 4975(e)(7)).

            (b)   Lump Sum Distribution Required. An event described in
subparagraph (a) that would otherwise permit distribution of a Participant's
interest in the Plan will not be treated as described in subparagraph (a) unless
the Participant receives a lump sum distribution by reason of the event. A lump
sum distribution for this purpose will be a distribution described in Code
section 402(e)(4)(D) (without regard to clauses (I), (II), (III), and (IV) of
clause (i) thereof).

      11.3  Restrictions on Commencement of Distributions. The provisions of
this Section will apply to restrict the Committee's ability to delay the
commencement of distributions. Unless a Participant elects otherwise in writing,
distribution of the Participant's vested interest in his account will begin no
later than the 60th day after the close of the Plan Year in which occurs the
latest of (i) the date on which the Participant attains age 65, (ii) the tenth
anniversary of the Plan Year in which the Participant began participation in the
Plan, or (iii) the Participant's termination of employment.

      11.4  Restrictions on Delay of Distributions. This Section will apply to
distributions on or after January 1, 1998. Distribution of a Participant's
entire vested and nonforfeitable interest will be made not later than April 1
following the calendar year (i) in which he attains age 70 1/2, or (ii) in which
his employment with the Controlled Group terminates, if later, except that a
distribution to a Participant who is a 5-percent owner (as such term is defined
in Code section 416(i)(1)(B)(i)) with respect to the Plan Year in which he
attains age 70 1/2 will be made pursuant to clause (i).

      11.5  Limitation to Assure Benefits Payable to Beneficiaries are
Incidental. In the event that any payments under the Plan are to be made to
someone other than the Participant or jointly to the Participant and his spouse
or other payee, such payments must conform to the "incidental benefit" rules of
Code section 401(a)(9)(G) and the Treasury Regulations thereunder.

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      11.6  Restrictions in the Event of Death. Upon the death of a Participant,
the following distribution provisions will apply to limit the Beneficiary's
ability to delay distributions. If the Participant dies after distribution of
his benefit has begun, the remaining portion of his benefit will continue to be
distributed at least as rapidly as under the method of distribution being used
prior to the Participant's death; but if he dies before distribution of his
benefit commences, his entire benefit will be distributed in a single lump sum
payment no later than December 31 of the fifth calendar year following the date
of the Participant's death. If the designated Beneficiary is the Participant's
surviving spouse, the date that distribution is required will not be earlier
than December 31 of the calendar year in which the Participant would have
attained age 70 1/2, and, if the spouse dies before payment is made,
distribution will be made to the spouse's Beneficiary in accordance with the
preceding sentence with the required distribution date measured from the date of
the spouse's death. Any amount paid to a child of the Participant will be
treated as if it had been paid to the surviving spouse if the amount becomes
payable to the surviving spouse when the child reaches the age of majority.

      11.7  Compliance with Regulations. Distributions under the Plan to
Participants or Beneficiaries will be made in accordance with Treasury
Regulations issued under Code section 401(a)(9).

      11.8  Delayed Payments. If the amount of a distribution required to begin
on a date determined under the applicable provisions of the Plan cannot be
ascertained by such date, or if it is not possible to make such payment on such
date because the Committee has been unable to locate a Participant or
Beneficiary after making reasonable efforts to do so, a payment retroactive to
such date may be made no later than 60 days after the earliest date on which the
amount of such payment can be ascertained or the date on which the Participant
or Beneficiary is located (whichever is applicable).

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                                   ARTICLE 12

                              TOP-HEAVY PROVISIONS

      12.1  Priority over Other Plan Provisions. If the Plan is or becomes a
Top-Heavy Plan in any Plan Year, the provisions of this Article will supersede
any conflicting provisions of the Plan. However, the provisions of this Article
will not operate to increase the rights or benefits of Participants under the
Plan except to the extent required by Code section 416 and other provisions of
law applicable to Top-Heavy Plans.

      12.2  Definitions Used in this Article. The following words and phrases,
when used with initial capital letters, will have the meanings set forth below.

            (a)   "Defined Benefit Dollar Limitation" means the limitation
described in Section 10.2(g).

            (b)   "Defined Benefit Plan" means the Qualified Plan described in
Section 10.2(i).

            (c)   "Defined Contribution Dollar Limitation" means the limitation
described in Section 10.2(j).

            (d)   "Defined Contribution Plan" means the Qualified Plan described
in Section 10.2(l).

            (e)   "Determination Date" means for the first Plan Year of the Plan
the last day of the Plan Year and for any subsequent Plan Year the last day of
the preceding Plan Year.

            (f)   "Determination Period" means the Plan Year containing the
Determination Date and the four preceding Plan Years.

            (g)   "Includable Compensation" means the compensation described in
Section 10.2(o).

            (h)   "Key Employee" means any Employee or former Employee (and the
Beneficiary of a deceased Employee) who at any time during the Determination
Period was (i) an officer of a Controlled Group Member, if such individual's
Includable Compensation (modified as described below) exceeds 50% of the Defined
Benefit Dollar Limitation, (ii) an owner (or considered an owner under Code
section 318) of one of the ten largest interests in a Controlled Group Member,
if such individual's Includable Compensation exceeds the Defined Contribution
Dollar Limitation, (iii) a 5% owner of a Controlled Group Member, or (iv) a 1%
owner of a Controlled Group Member who has annual Includable Compensation of
more than $150,000. For purposes of determining if the Plan is a Top-Heavy Plan
for any Plan Year beginning after December 31, 2001, "Key Employee" means any
Employee or former Employee (and the Beneficiary of a deceased Employee) who at
any time during the Plan Year that includes the Determination Date was an
officer of a Controlled Group Member having Includable Compensation greater than
$130,000 (as adjusted under Code section 416(i)(1) for Plan Years

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beginning after December 31, 2002), a 5-percent owner of a Controlled Group
Member, or a 1-percent owner of a Controlled Group Member having Includable
Compensation of more than $150,000. The determination of who is a Key Employee
will be made in accordance with Code section 416(i). For purposes of this
subsection, Includable Compensation will include the amount of any salary
reduction contributions pursuant to a cash or deferred arrangement meeting the
requirements of Code section 401(k) or a cafeteria plan meeting the requirements
of Code section 125.

            (i)   "Minimum Allocation" means the allocation described in the
first sentence of Section 12.3(a).

            (j)   "Permissive Aggregation Group" means the Required Aggregation
Group of Qualified Plans plus any other Qualified Plan or Qualified Plans of a
Controlled Group Member which, when considered as a group with the Required
Aggregation Group, would continue to satisfy the requirements of Code sections
401(a)(4) and 410 (including simplified employee pension plans).

            (k)   "Present Value" means present value based only on the interest
and mortality rates specified in a Defined Benefit Plan.

            (l)   "Required Aggregation Group" means the group of plans
consisting of (i) each Qualified Plan (including simplified employee pension
plans) of a Controlled Group Member in which at least one Key Employee
participates, and (ii) any other Qualified Plan (including simplified employee
pension plans) of a Controlled Group Member which enables a Qualified Plan to
meet the requirements of Code sections 401(a)(4) or 410.

            (m)   "Top-Heavy Plan" means the Plan for any Plan Year in which any
of the following conditions exists: (i) if the Top-Heavy Ratio for the Plan
exceeds 60% and the Plan is not a part of any Required Aggregation Group or
Permissive Aggregation Group of Qualified Plans; (ii) if the Plan is a part of a
Required Aggregation Group but not part of a Permissive Aggregation Group of
Qualified Plans and the Top-Heavy Ratio for the Required Aggregation Group
exceeds 60%; or (iii) if the Plan is a part of a Required Aggregation Group and
part of a Permissive Aggregation Group of Qualified Plans and the Top-Heavy
Ratio for the Permissive Aggregation Group exceeds 60%.

            (n)   "Top-Heavy Ratio" means a fraction, the numerator of which is
the sum of the Present Value of accrued benefits and the account balances (as
required by Code section 416)) of all Key Employees with respect to such
Qualified Plans as of the Determination Date (including any part of any accrued
benefit or account balance distributed during the five-year period ending on the
Determination Date), and the denominator of which is the sum of the Present
Value of the accrued benefits and the account balances (including any part of
any accrued benefit or account balance distributed in the five-year period
ending on the Determination Date) of all Employees with respect to such
Qualified Plans as of the Determination Date. For purposes of determining if the
Plan is a Top-Heavy Plan for any Plan Year beginning after December 31, 2001,
"one-year period" will be substituted for "five-year period" in the preceding
sentence, except with respect to distributions made for a reason other than
separation from service, death or disability. The preceding will also apply to
distributions

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under a terminated plan which, had it not been terminated, would have been
aggregated with the Plan under Code section 416(g)(2)(A)(i). The value of
account balances and the Present Value of accrued benefits will be determined as
of the most recent Top-Heavy Valuation Date that falls within or ends with the
12-month period ending on the Determination Date, except as provided in Code
section 416 for the first and second Plan Years of a Defined Benefit Plan. The
account balances and accrued benefits of a participant who is not a Key Employee
but who was a Key Employee in a prior year will be disregarded. The calculation
of the Top-Heavy Ratio, and the extent to which distributions, rollovers,
transfers and contributions unpaid as of the Determination Date are taken into
account will be made in accordance with Code section 416. Employee contributions
described in Code section 219(e)(2) will not be taken into account for purposes
of computing the Top-Heavy Ratio. When aggregating plans, the value of account
balances and accrued benefits will be calculated with reference to the
Determination Dates that fall within the same calendar year. The accrued benefit
of any Employee other than a Key Employee will be determined under the method,
if any, that uniformly applies for accrual purposes under all Qualified Plans
maintained by all Controlled Group Members and included in a Required
Aggregation Group or a Permissive Aggregation Group or, if there is no such
method, as if the benefit accrued not more rapidly than the slowest accrual rate
permitted under the fractional accrual rate of Code section 411(b)(1)(C).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the account balances and accrued benefits of any
Employee who has not performed services for an employer maintaining any of the
aggregated plans during the five-year period ending on the Determination Date
will not be taken into account for purposes of this subsection. For purposes of
determining if the Plan is a Top-Heavy Plan for any Plan Year beginning after
December 31, 2001, the account balances and accrued benefits of any individual
who has not performed services for a Controlled Group Member during the one-year
period ending on the Determination Date will not be taken into account.

            (o)   "Top-Heavy Valuation Date" means the last day of each Plan
Year.

      12.3  Minimum Allocation.

            (a)   Calculation of Minimum Allocation. For any Plan Year in which
the Plan is a Top-Heavy Plan, each Participant who is not a Key Employee will
receive an allocation of Participating Employer contributions and forfeitures of
not less than the lesser of 3% of his Includable Compensation for such Plan Year
or the percentage of Includable Compensation that equals the largest percentage
of Participating Employer contributions (including Deferral Contributions) and
forfeitures allocated to a Key Employee. The Minimum Allocation is determined
without regard to any Social Security contribution. Deferral Contributions made
on behalf of Participants who are not Key Employees will not be treated as
Participating Employer contributions for purposes of the Minimum Allocation.
Matching Contributions will be treated as Participant Employer contributions for
such Plan Year for purposes of the Minimum Allocation. The Minimum Allocation
applies even though under other Plan provisions the Participant would not
otherwise be entitled to receive an allocation, or would have received a lesser
allocation for the Plan Year because (i) the non-Key Employee fails to make
mandatory contributions to the Plan, (ii) the non-Key Employee's Includable
Compensation is less than a stated amount, or (iii) the non-Key Employee fails
to complete 1,000 Hours of Service in the Plan Year.

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            (b)   Limitation on Minimum Allocation. No Minimum Allocation will
be provided pursuant to subsection (a) to a Participant who is not employed by a
Controlled Group Member on the last day of the Plan Year.

            (c)   Minimum Allocation When Participant is Covered by Another
Qualified Plan. If a Controlled Group Member maintains one or more other Defined
Contribution Plans covering Employees who are Participants in this Plan, the
Minimum Allocation will be provided under this Plan, unless such other Defined
Contribution Plans make explicit reference to this Plan and provide that the
Minimum Allocation will not be provided under this Plan, in which case the
provisions of subsection (a) will not apply to any Participant covered under
such other Defined Contribution Plans. If a Controlled Group Member maintains
one or more Defined Benefit Plans covering Employees who are Participants in
this Plan, and such Defined Benefit Plans provide that Employees who are
participants therein will accrue the minimum benefit applicable to top-heavy
Defined Benefit Plans notwithstanding their participation in this Plan, then the
provisions of subsection (a) will not apply to any Participant covered under
such Defined Benefit Plans. If a Controlled Group Member maintains one or more
Defined Benefit Plans covering Employees who are Participants in this Plan, and
the provisions of the preceding sentence do not apply, then each Participant who
is not a Key Employee and who is covered by such Defined Benefit Plans will
receive a Minimum Allocation determined by applying the provisions of subsection
(a) with the substitution of "5%" in each place that "3%" occurs therein.

            (d)   Nonforfeitability. The Participant's Minimum Allocation, to
the extent required to be nonforfeitable under Code section 416(b) and the
special vesting schedule provided in this Article, may not be forfeited under
Code section 411(a)(3)(B) (relating to suspension of benefits on reemployment)
or 411(a)(3)(D) (relating to withdrawal of mandatory contributions).

      12.4  Modification of Aggregate Benefit Limit.

            (a)   Modification. Subject to the provisions of subsection (b), in
any Plan Year in which the Top-Heavy Ratio exceeds 60%, the aggregate benefit
limit described in Article 10 will be modified by substituting "100%" for "125%"
in Sections 10.2(h) and 10.2(k).

            (b)   Exception. The modification of the aggregate benefit limit
described in subsection (a) will not be required if the Top-Heavy Ratio does not
exceed 90% and one of the following conditions is met: (i) Employees who are not
Key Employees do not participate in both a Defined Benefit Plan and a Defined
Contribution Plan which are in the Required Aggregation Group, and the Minimum
Allocation requirements of Section 12.3(a) are met when such requirements are
applied with the substitution of "4%" for "3%"; (ii) the Minimum Allocation
requirements of Section 12.3(c) are met when such requirements are applied with
the substitution of "7 1/2%" for "5%"; or (iii) Employees who are not Key
Employees have an accrued benefit of not less than 3% of their average
Includable Compensation for the five consecutive Plan Years in which they had
the highest Includable Compensation multiplied by their Years of Service in
which the Plan is a Top-Heavy Plan (not to exceed a total such benefit of 30%),
expressed as a life annuity commencing at the Participant's normal retirement
age in a Defined Benefit Plan which is in the Required Aggregation Group.

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      12.5  Minimum Vesting.

            (a)   Required Vesting. For any Plan Year in which this Plan is a
Top-Heavy Plan, the minimum vesting schedule set forth in subsection (b) will
automatically apply to the Plan to the extent it provides a higher vested
percentage than the regular vesting schedule set forth in Article 5. The minimum
vesting schedule applies to all Account balances including amounts attributable
to Plan Years before the effective date of Code section 416 and amounts
attributable to Plan Years before the Plan became a Top-Heavy Plan. Further, no
reduction in vested Account balances may occur in the event the Plan's status as
a Top-Heavy Plan changes for any Plan Year, and any change in the effective
vesting schedule from the schedule set forth in subsection (b) to the regular
schedule set forth in Article 5 will be treated as an amendment subject to
Section 14.1(a)(iii). However, this subsection does not apply to the Account
balances of any Employee who does not have an Hour of Service after the Plan has
initially become a Top-Heavy Plan, and such Employee's Account balances will be
determined without regard to this Section.

            (b)   Minimum Vesting Schedule.

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                   Percentage Vested
Years of Service                                  and Nonforfeitable
----------------                                  ------------------
<S>                                               <C>
Less than 2                                                0
2 but less than 3                                         20
3 but less than 4                                         40
4 but less than 5                                         60
5 but less than 6                                         80
6 or more                                                100
</TABLE>

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                                   ARTICLE 13

                  ADOPTION OF PLAN BY CONTROLLED GROUP MEMBERS

      13.1  Adoption Procedure. Any Controlled Group Member may become a
Participating Employer under the Plan provided that (i) the Board approves the
adoption of the Plan by the Controlled Group Member and designates the
Controlled Group Member as a Participating Employer; (ii) the Controlled Group
Member adopts the Plan and Trust Agreement together with all amendments then in
effect by appropriate resolutions of the board of directors of the Controlled
Group Member; and (iii) the Controlled Group Member by appropriate resolutions
of its board of directors agrees to be bound by any other terms and conditions
which may be required by the Board, provided that such terms and conditions are
not inconsistent with the purposes of the Plan.

      13.2  Effect of Adoption by Controlled Group Member. A Controlled Group
Member that adopts the Plan pursuant to this Article will be deemed to be a
Participating Employer for all purposes hereunder, unless otherwise specified in
the resolutions of the Board designating the Controlled Group Member as a
Participating Employer. In addition, the Board may provide, in its discretion
and by appropriate resolutions, that the Employees of the Controlled Group
Member will receive credit for their employment with the Controlled Group Member
prior to the date it became a Controlled Group Member for purposes of
determining either or both the eligibility of such Employees to participate in
the Plan and the vested and nonforfeitable interest of such Employees in their
Account balances provided that such credit will be applied in a uniform and
nondiscriminatory manner with respect to all such Employees.

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                                   ARTICLE 14

                              AMENDMENT OF THE PLAN

      14.1  Right to Amend the Plan.

            (a)   In General. The Company reserves to the Compensation Committee
of the Board of Directors the right to amend the Plan at any time and from time
to time to the extent it may deem advisable or appropriate, provided that (i) no
amendment will increase the duties or liabilities of the Trustee without its
written consent; (ii) no amendment will cause a reversion of Plan assets to the
Participating Employers not otherwise permitted under the Plan; (iii) no
amendment will have the effect of reducing the percentage of the vested and
nonforfeitable interest of any Participant in his Account nor will the vesting
provisions of the Plan be amended unless each Participant with at least three
Years of Service (including Years of Service disregarded pursuant to the
reemployment provisions (if any) of Article 5) is permitted to elect to continue
to have the prior vesting provisions apply to him, within 60 days after the
latest of the date on which the amendment is adopted, the date on which the
amendment is effective, or the date on which the Participant is issued written
notice of the amendment; and (iv) no amendment will be effective to the extent
that it has the effect of decreasing a Participant's Account balance or
eliminating an optional form of distribution as it applies to an existing
Account balance.

            (b)   Authority of the Board. The Company also reserves to the Board
of Directors the right to amend the Plan at any time and from time to time to
the extent it may deem advisable or appropriate, subject to the limitations on
amendments set forth in subsection (a).

      14.2  Amendment Procedure. Any amendment to the Plan will be made only
pursuant to action of the Board or of the Compensation Committee of the Board. A
certified copy of the resolutions adopting any amendment and a copy of the
executed amendment will be delivered to the Trustee, the Committee and the
Company. Upon such action by the Board or the Compensation Committee of the
Board, the Plan will be deemed amended as of the date specified as the effective
date by such action or in the instrument of amendment. The effective date of any
amendment may be before, on or after the date of such action, except as
otherwise set forth in Section 14.1.

      14.3  Effect on Participating Employers. Unless an amendment expressly
provides otherwise, all Participating Employers will be bound by any amendment
to the Plan.

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                                   ARTICLE 15

                      TERMINATION, PARTIAL TERMINATION AND
                    COMPLETE DISCONTINUANCE OF CONTRIBUTIONS

      15.1  Continuance of Plan. The Participating Employers expect to continue
the Plan indefinitely, but they do not assume an individual or collective
contractual obligation to do so, and the right is reserved to the Company, by
action of the Board, to terminate the Plan or to completely discontinue
contributions thereto at any time. In addition, subject to remaining provisions
of this Article, any Participating Employer at any time may discontinue its
participation in the Plan with respect to its Employees.

      15.2  Complete Vesting. If the Plan is terminated, or if there is a
complete discontinuance of contributions to the Plan by the Participating
Employers, the amounts allocated or to be allocated to the Accounts of all
affected Participants will become 100% vested and nonforfeitable without regard
to their Years of Service. For purposes of this Section, a Participant who has
terminated employment and is not again an Employee at the time the Plan is
terminated or there is a complete discontinuance of Participating Employer
contributions will not be an affected Participant entitled to full vesting if
the Participant had no vested interest in his Account balance attributable to
Participating Employer contributions at his termination of employment. In the
event of a partial termination of the Plan, the amounts allocable to the
Accounts of those Participants who cease to participate on account of the facts
and circumstances which result in the partial termination will become 100%
vested and nonforfeitable without regard to their Years of Service.

      15.3  Disposition of the Trust Fund. If the Plan is terminated, or if
there is a complete discontinuance of contributions to the Plan, the Committee
will instruct the Trustee either (i) to continue to administer the Plan and pay
benefits in accordance with the Plan until the Trust Fund has been depleted, or
(ii) to distribute the assets remaining in the Trust Fund, unless distribution
is prohibited by Section 11.2. If the Trust Fund is to be distributed, the
Committee will make, after deducting estimated expenses for termination of the
Trust Fund and distribution of its assets, the allocations required under the
Plan as though the date of completion of the Trust Fund termination were a
Valuation Date. The Trustee will distribute to each Participant the amount
credited to his Account as of the date of completion of the Trust Fund
termination.

      15.4  Withdrawal by a Participating Employer. A Participating Employer may
withdraw from participation in the Plan or completely discontinue contributions
to the Plan only with the approval of the Board. If any Participating Employer
withdraws from the Plan or completely discontinues contributions to the Plan, a
copy of the resolutions of the board of directors of the Participating Employer
adopting such action, certified by the secretary of such board of directors and
reflecting approval by the Board, will be delivered to the Committee as soon as
it is administratively feasible to do so, and the Committee will communicate
such action to the Trustee and to the Employees of the Participating Employer.

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                                   ARTICLE 16

                                  MISCELLANEOUS

      16.1  Reversion Prohibited.

            (a)   General Rule. Except as provided in subsections (b), (c) and
(d), it will be impossible for any part of the Trust Fund either (i) to be used
for or diverted to purposes other than those which are for the exclusive benefit
of Participants and their Beneficiaries (except for the payment of taxes and
administrative expenses), or (ii) to revert to a Controlled Group Member.

            (b)   Disallowed Contributions. Each contribution of the
Participating Employers under the Plan is expressly conditioned upon the
deductibility of the contribution under Code section 404. If all or part of a
Participating Employer's contribution is disallowed as a deduction under Code
section 404, such disallowed amount (excluding any Trust Fund earnings but
reduced by any Trust Fund losses attributable thereto) may be returned by the
Trustee to the Participating Employer with respect to which the deduction was
disallowed (upon the direction of the Committee) within one year after the
disallowance.

            (c)   Mistaken Contributions. If a contribution is made by a
Participating Employer by reason of a mistake of fact, then so much of the
contribution as was made as a result of the mistake (excluding any Trust Fund
earnings but reduced by any Trust Fund losses attributable thereto) may be
returned by the Trustee to the Participating Employer (upon direction of the
Committee) within one year after the mistaken contribution was made.

      16.2  Bonding, Insurance and Indemnity.

            (a)   Bonding. To the extent required under ERISA, the Participating
Employers will obtain, pay for and keep current a bond or bonds with respect to
each Committee member and each Employee who receives, handles, disburses, or
otherwise exercises custody or control of, any of the assets of the Plan.

            (b)   Insurance. The Participating Employers, in their discretion,
may obtain, pay for and keep current a policy or policies of insurance, insuring
the Committee members, the members of the board of directors of each
Participating Employer and other Employees to whom any fiduciary responsibility
with respect to the administration of the Plan has been delegated against any
and all costs, expenses and liabilities (including attorneys' fees) incurred by
such persons as a result of any act, or omission to act, in connection with the
performance of their duties, responsibilities and obligations under the Plan and
any applicable law.

            (c)   Indemnity. If the Participating Employers do not obtain, pay
for and keep current the type of insurance policy or policies referred to in
subsection (b), or if such insurance is provided but any of the parties referred
to in subsection (b) incur any costs or expenses which are not covered under
such policies, then the Participating Employers will indemnify and hold
harmless, to the extent permitted by law, such parties against any and all
costs, expenses and liabilities (including attorneys' fees) incurred by such
parties in performing their duties and

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responsibilities under this Plan, provided that such party or parties were
acting in good faith within what was reasonably believed to have been the best
interests of the Plan and its Participants.

      16.3  Merger, Consolidation or Transfer of Assets. There will be no merger
or consolidation of all or any part of the Plan with, or transfer of the assets
or liabilities of all or any part of the Plan to, any other Qualified Plan
unless each Participant who remains a Participant hereunder and each Participant
who becomes a participant in the other Qualified Plan would receive a benefit
immediately after the merger, consolidation or transfer (determined as if the
other Qualified Plan and the Plan were then terminated) which is equal to or
greater than the benefit they would have been entitled to receive under the Plan
immediately before the merger, consolidation or transfer if the Plan had then
terminated.

      16.4  Spendthrift Clause. The rights of any Participant or Beneficiary to
and in any benefits under the Plan will not be subject to assignment or
alienation, and no Participant or Beneficiary will have the power to assign,
transfer or dispose of such rights, nor will any such rights to benefits be
subject to attachment, execution, garnishment, sequestration, the laws of
bankruptcy or any other legal or equitable process. This Section will not apply
to a "qualified domestic relations order." A "qualified domestic relations
order" means a judgment, decree or order made pursuant to a state domestic
relations law which satisfies the requirements of Code section 414(p). Payment
to an alternate payee pursuant to a qualified domestic relations order will be
made in an immediate lump sum payment, if the order so provides.

      16.5  Rights of Participants. Participation in the Plan will not give any
Participant the right to be retained in the employ of a Controlled Group Member
or any right or interest in the Plan or the Trust Fund except as expressly
provided herein.

      16.6  Electronic Media. Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the
contrary, including any provision which requires the use of a written
instrument, to the extent permitted by applicable law, the Committee may
establish procedures for the use of electronic media in communications and
transactions between the Plan or the Committee and Participants and
Beneficiaries. Electronic media may include, but are not limited to, electronic
mail, the Internet, intranet systems and automated telephonic response systems.

      16.7  Gender, Tense and Headings. Whenever any words are used herein in
the masculine gender, they will be construed as though they were also used in
the feminine gender in all cases where they would so apply. Whenever any words
used herein are in the singular form, they will be construed as though they were
also used in the plural form in all cases where they would so apply. Headings of
Articles, Sections and subsections as used herein are inserted solely for
convenience and reference and constitute no part of the Plan.

      16.8  GOVERNING LAW. THE PLAN WILL BE CONSTRUED AND GOVERNED IN ALL
RESPECTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE FEDERAL LAW AND, TO THE EXTENT NOT
PREEMPTED BY SUCH FEDERAL LAW, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF
TEXAS, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE TEXAS STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS, BUT
WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO THE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS OF SUCH STATE.

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      Executed at Dallas, Texas, this 12th day of July, 2004.

                                 BELO CORP.

                                 By /s/ Marian Spitzberg
                                    --------------------------------------------
                                    Marian Spitzberg,
                                    Senior Vice President/Human Resources

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                                   APPENDIX A

                  PARTICIPATING EMPLOYERS AS OF AUGUST 1, 2004

                                  Al Dia, Inc.
                                   Belo Corp.
                    Belo Advertising Customer Services, Inc.
                            Belo Capital Bureau, Inc.
                             Belo Expositions, Inc.
                             Belo Interactive, Inc.
                               Belo Kentucky, Inc.
                         Belo Management Services, Inc.
                          The Dallas Morning News, L.P.
                            Denton Publishing Company
                           DFW Printing Company, Inc.
                                  KASW-TV, Inc.
                                  KENS-TV, Inc.
                                  KHOU-TV, L.P.
                            King Broadcasting Company
                              King News Corporation
                                  KMOV-TV, Inc.
                                  KMSB-TV, Inc.
                                  KONG-TV, Inc.
                              KSKN Television, Inc.
                                  KTTU-TV, Inc.
                                   KTVK, Inc.
                              KVUE Television, Inc.
                            Press Enterprise Company
                         The Providence Journal Company
                    Rhode Island Monthly Communications, Inc.
                             TDMN New Products, Inc.
                             Texas Cable News, Inc.
                                  WCNC-TV, Inc.
                                  WFAA-TV, L.P.
                              WVEC Television, Inc.
                                  WWL-TV, Inc.

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