BELO
SUPPLEMENTAL EXECUTIVE RETIREMENT PLAN
As Amended and Restated Effective
January 1, 2008
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1. Purpose and Nature of the Plan
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5. Participant Accounts; Contribution and
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7. Commencement of Benefits
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9. Prohibition on Acceleration of 2005 Account
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BELO
SUPPLEMENTAL EXECUTIVE RETIREMENT PLAN
As Amended and Restated Effective
January 1, 2008
1.
Purpose and Nature of the Plan .
(a)
Purpose . The purpose of the Supplemental Executive
Retirement Plan is to provide certain employees of Belo and its
subsidiaries with supplemental retirement income upon retirement or
other termination of employment. The provisions of the Plan as
amended and restated effective January 1, 2008, will apply to
each employee who is a participant in the Plan on and after such
date. Benefits under the Plan for participants who retired or
otherwise terminated employment prior to January 1, 2008, will
be determined under the terms of the Plan as in effect on
December 31, 2007, as operated in good faith compliance with
the provisions of Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code
and the guidance issued by the Department of the Treasury and the
Internal Revenue Service prior to January 1, 2008, with
respect to Section 409A.
(b)
Individual Account Plan . The Plan is an individual account
plan, and the benefit payable under the Plan to a Participant at
any time is the vested balance of the Participant’s accounts
established under Section 5, notwithstanding the provisions of
Section 4. The benefit described in Section 4 is a
“target benefit,” which is merely the means by which
the Committee determines the amount that Belo will contribute to
the Plan on behalf of employees participating in the Plan with
respect to such benefit and is not the benefit to be paid by the
Plan.
2.
Definitions . The following definitions are used throughout
the Plan.
(a)
Belo means Belo Corp., a Delaware corporation. The term
Belo subsidiary means (i) any corporation of which at
least 80% of the total combined voting power of all outstanding
shares of stock is owned directly or indirectly by Belo;
(ii) any partnership of which at least 80% of the profits
interest or capital interest is owned directly or indirectly by
Belo; and (iii) any other entity of which at least 80% of the
total equity interest is owned directly or indirectly by
Belo.
(b)
Board of Directors means the Board of Directors of
Belo.
(c)
Cause means (i) any intentional act of fraud,
embezzlement, or theft committed by a Participant in the course of
the Participant’s employment by Belo or any Belo subsidiary;
(ii) any intentional misconduct engaged in by the Participant
which is materially injurious to the business, reputation or
property of Belo or any Belo subsidiary; (iii) any conduct of
the Participant that constitutes a breach of fiduciary duty to Belo
or any Belo subsidiary; or (iv) the Participant’s
refusal to perform, or failure to perform in a satisfactory manner
(other than by reason of disability), the duties and
responsibilities of the Participant’s position with Belo or
any Belo subsidiary.
(d)
Change in Control means a change in ownership of Belo, a
change in effective control of Belo or a change in the ownership of
a substantial portion of the assets of Belo, in each case within
the meaning of Section 409A of the Code. Subject to the
foregoing:
(i)
a change in ownership of Belo will occur on the date that any one
person or persons acting as a group acquires ownership of stock of
Belo that together with stock held by such person or persons
constitutes more than 50% of the total fair market value or total
voting power of the stock of Belo;
(ii)
a change in effective control of Belo will occur on the date that
(A) any one person or persons acting as a group acquires (or
has acquired during the 12-month period ending on the date of the
most recent acquisition by such person or persons) ownership of the
stock of Belo possessing 30% or more of the total voting power of
the stock of Belo or (B) a majority of members of the Board is
replaced during any 12-month period by directors whose appointment
or election is not endorsed by a majority of the members of the
Board prior to the date of such appointment or election;
and
(iii)
a change in the ownership of a substantial portion of the assets of
Belo will occur on the date that any one person or persons acting
as a group acquires (or has acquired during the 12-month period
ending on the date of the most recent acquisition by such person or
persons) assets from Belo that have a total gross fair market value
equal to or more than 40% of the total gross fair market value of
all of the assets of Belo immediately prior to such
acquisition.
(e)
Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended and
in effect from time to time, and includes any applicable
regulations or other guidance relating to provisions of the Code
published by the Internal Revenue Service or the U.S. Treasury
Department.
(f)
Committee means the Compensation Committee of the Board of
Directors or any successor committee appointed by the Board of
Directors to administer the Plan.
(g)
ERISA means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of
1974, as amended.
(h)
Final Monthly Compensation means the final monthly
compensation of a Participant determined in the same manner as
under the provisions of the Pension Plan without regard to whether
the Participant is also a participant in the Pension Plan, except
that (i) the limitation on compensation under
Section 401(a)(17) of the Code will not be taken into account;
and (ii) with respect to a Participant who participates in a
Belo annual incentive compensation plan, compensation will include
the amount of the Participant’s target incentive cash
compensation under such annual incentive compensation plan rather
than the amount of the actual incentive cash compensation
payment.
(i)
Grandfathered Participant means a Participant with an earned
and vested account balance under the Plan as of December 31,
2004, whose name is set forth on Exhibit A to the
Plan.
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(j)
MSP means the Management Security Plan of A. H. Belo
Corporation and Affiliated Companies, which was terminated as of
December 31, 1999.
(k)
Participant means an employee who is eligible to receive
benefits under the Plan. The term “Participant” will
include (i) a Grandfathered Participant who continues to
participate in the Plan after December 31, 2004; and
(ii) unless the context clearly requires a different
interpretation, the beneficiary of a deceased
Participant.
(l)
Pension Plan means The G. B. Dealey Retirement Pension Plan,
which is a defined benefit pension plan that is sponsored by Belo
and is intended to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code,
as such plan was in effect on March 31, 2007, immediately
prior to the benefit freeze that became effective on that
date.
(m)
Plan means the Belo Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan
as set forth herein and as amended from time to time.
(n)
Plan Year means the calendar year.
(o)
Separation from Service means a Participant’s
separation from service within the meaning of Section 409A of
the Code from Belo and all Belo subsidiaries by reason of the
Participant’s death, retirement or other termination of
employment. A Participant who is on military leave, sick leave or
other bona fide leave of absence does not have a Separation from
Service if the leave does not exceed six months or, if the leave
exceeds six months, the Participant’s right to reemployment
with Belo or a Belo subsidiary is provided by statute or by
contract. If the period of the Participant’s leave exceeds
six months but the Participant’s right to employment is not
provided by statute or contract, the Participant’s Separation
from Service occurs on the first date immediately following such
six-month period. Notwithstanding the foregoing, where a leave of
absence is due to any medically determinable physical or mental
impairment that can be expected to result in death or can be
expected to last for a continuous period of not less than six
months, where such impairment causes the Participant to be unable
to perform the duties of the Participant’s position of
employment or any substantially similar position of employment, a
29-month period of absence will be substituted for such six-month
period.
(p)
SRP means The Providence Journal Company Supplemental
Retirement Plan.
(q)
Trust means the Belo Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan
Trust, which as of the date of this amendment and restatement of
the Plan is maintained pursuant to that certain Trust Agreement
dated as of October 1, 2002, between Belo and The Bank of New
York as successor trustee. The Trust is a so-called “rabbi
trust” the assets of which are at all times subject to the
claims of Belo’s general creditors.
(r)
2004 Account means the account established for each
Grandfathered Participant under Section 5(a). A Grandfathered
Participant’s 2004 Account provides for benefits that are not
subject to the provisions of Section 409A of the
Code.
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2005 Account means the account established for each
Participant under Section 5(b). A Participant’s 2005
Account provides for benefits under the Plan that are subject to
the provisions of Section 409A of the Code.
3.
Eligibility . The Committee will designate from time to time
those employees of Belo or any Belo subsidiary who are eligible to
participate in the Plan. An employee who has been designated as
eligible to participate in the Plan will cease to be eligible for
future benefits as of any date specified by the Committee, subject
to the provisions of Section 5(c).
(a)
Projected Final Compensation . As soon as practicable after
an employee becomes a Participant with respect to the target
benefit described in this Section 4, the Committee will
determine (i) the amount of the Participant’s projected
annual Final Monthly Compensation on the assumption that the
Participant will remain employed by Belo or a Belo subsidiary
through the last day of the month in which the Participant attains
age 65; and (ii) the projected annual retirement benefit that
would be paid to the Participant from the Pension Plan based on
such projected annual Final Monthly Compensation, and without
regard to any limitation on benefits under Section 415 of the
Code, in the form of a straight-life annuity beginning on the first
day of the month immediately following the month in which the
Participant attains age 65.
(b)
Projected Pension Plan Benefit . The Committee will also
determine the projected annual retirement benefit that would be
paid to the Participant under the terms of the Pension Plan as a
straight-life annuity on the assumption that the Participant will
remain employed by Belo or a Belo subsidiary through the last day
of the month in which the Participant attains age 65 and will begin
to receive retirement benefits immediately thereafter.
(c)
Pension Plan Freeze Disregarded . The Committee will
determine the projected annual retirement benefit that would be
paid to the Participant as if the Participant were an active
participant in the Pension Plan and the Pension Plan had not been
frozen on March 31, 2007, on the basis of the assumptions set
forth in Section 4(a) and Section 4(b) and on the basis
of such years of benefit accrual service as the Committee
determines should be credited to the Participant for this
purpose.
(d)
Target Benefit . The target benefit for each Participant
under this Section 4 will be the value of an annual benefit
payable as a straight-life annuity beginning on the first day of
the month immediately following the month in which the Participant
attains age 65 in an amount equal to (i) the difference
between the value of the annual benefit determined under
Section 4(a) and the value of the annual benefit determined
under Section 4(b), multiplied by (ii) a fraction (not to
exceed one) the numerator of which is the number of years of Plan
participation that the Participant will have completed if the
Participant participates continuously in the Plan until reaching
age 65 and the denominator of which is 10.
5.
Participant Accounts; Contribution and Earnings Credits
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(a)
2004 Accounts . Belo will establish on its books a 2004
Account for each Grandfathered Participant and will credit to the
Grandfathered Participant’s 2004 Account an
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amount equal to
the Grandfathered Participant’s earned and vested account
balance as of December 31, 2004, plus all earnings that accrue
with respect to such account balance after December 31, 2004,
as determined under Section 5(d). The Grandfathered
Participant’s earned and vested account balance as of
December 31, 2004, will include, without limitation and to the
extent applicable, (i) the Grandfathered Participant’s
earned and vested right to the annual contribution credit for the
2004 Plan Year; (ii) the amount of the Grandfathered
Participant’s SRP benefit transferred to the Plan as of
January 1, 2000; and (iii) the amount of the
Grandfathered Participant’s MSP benefit transferred to the
Plan as of January 1, 2000, plus the amounts set forth on
Exhibit B to the Plan that were credited to the Grandfathered
Participant’s account prior to January 1,
2005.
(b)
2005 Accounts . The Committee will determine the amount Belo
would be required to contribute each Plan Year beginning on or
after January 1, 2005, on behalf of a Participant in order to
fully fund, as of the last day of the month in which the
Participant attains age 65, the Participant’s target benefit
described in Section 4, taking into account the balance of
both the Participant’s 2004 Account and his 2005 Account.
Belo will establish on its books a 2005 Account for each
Participant and will credit to each Participant’s 2005
Account (i) the amount, if any, of the Participant’s
account balance as of December 31, 2004, that was not earned
and vested at December 31, 2004, plus earnings on such balance
that accrue after December 31, 2004, as determined under
Section 5(d); and (ii) the amount of the annual
contribution credit determined by the Committee for Plan Years
beginning on or after January 1, 2005, plus earnings on such
contribution credits, as determined under Section 5(d). The
Committee will review no less frequently than once every three
years the assumptions used in determining each Participant’s
target benefit described in Section 4 and the balance credited
to each Participant’s 2004 Account and 2005 Account. In its
discretion, the Committee may make any changes to the contribution
credit to a Participant’s 2005 Account that it determines to
be appropriate as a result of such review.
(c)
Annual Contributions .
(i)
No annual contributions will be credited to a Participant’s
2004 Account for any Plan Year beginning after December 31,
2004.
(ii)
Effective with the Plan Year beginning on January 1, 2005,
Belo will credit annual contributions to each Participant’s
2005 Account in an amount determined under Section 5(b), and
will contribute to the Trust the amount credited to the
Participants 2005 Account, not later than 90 days after the
end of the Plan Year for which the contribution is to be credited.
Belo will also contribute to the 2005 Account of a Participant who
is a former MSP participant the amounts set forth on Exhibit B
to the Plan for years after December 31, 2004. Except as
otherwise provided in this Section 5(c)(ii), contributions
will be credited for each full Plan Year in which the Participant
participates in the Plan. If a Participant first becomes eligible
to participate on a date other than the first day of the Plan Year
or attains age 65, retires or otherwise terminates employment or
ceases to be eligible for future benefits on a date other than the
last day of the Plan Year, the Committee will determine whether any
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