ENTRAVISION COMMUNICATIONS CORP

The discussion of the business of Entravision Communications Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, or Entravision or the Company, is as of the date of filing this report, unless otherwise indicated.

Introduction

We are a leading global advertising solutions, media and technology company. Our operations encompass integrated, end-to-end advertising solutions across multiple media, comprised of digital, television and audio properties. For financial reporting purposes, we report in three segments based upon the type of advertising medium: digital, television and audio.

Our digital segment, whose operations are primarily located in Europe, Latin America, Asia, the United States and Africa, reaches a global market, with a focus on advertisers that wish to advertise on digital platforms owned and operated primarily by global media companies. We have commercial partnerships with Meta, ByteDance Ltd., or ByteDance, which owns the TikTok platform, X Corp., or X (formerly known as Twitter), Spotify AB, or Spotify, Snap Inc., or Snap, and Pinterest, Inc., or Pinterest. Additionally, marketers can use our Smadex programmatic ad purchasing platform to deliver targeted advertising to audiences around the globe.

On March 4, 2024, we received a communication from Meta that it intends to wind down its authorized sales partner, or ASP, program globally and end its relationship with all of its ASPs, including us, by July 1, 2024. We expect that the termination of this program will have a material effect on our digital operations and results of operations and that our consolidated and digital segment revenue and cash flow from operations will be materially and adversely affected in future periods. As a result, we have initiated a review of our current digital strategy and operations, discussed in more detail below. The discussion regarding our digital operations throughout this report, including all references to our commercial relationship as an ASP with Meta, and the impact that the termination by Meta of the ASP program is expected have on our business, including our results of operations and consolidated and digital segment revenue and cash flow from operations, should be read in consideration of this recent announcement. See “Digital” below, Item 1A, “Risk Factors” and Item 7, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”.

Our digital strategy is to reach connected consumers throughout the world. We have commercial partnerships with some of the world's leading platforms and are investing in programmatic advertising technology to capture the significant and rapidly growing digital advertising industry. Global digital advertising spending is expected to grow from $611 billion in 2024 to $920 billion in 2027, with digital advertising accounting for 75% of total advertising spend by then, according to eMarketer.

Our television and audio operations reach and engage U.S. Hispanics in the United States. We own and/or operate 49 primary television stations. Our television operations comprise the largest affiliate group of both the top-ranked Univision television network and TelevisaUnivision’s UniMás network, with TelevisaUnivision-affiliated stations in 15 of the nation’s top 50 U.S. Hispanic markets. We own and operate one of the largest groups of primarily Spanish-language radio stations in the United States. We own and operate 44 radio stations, consisting of 37 FM and 7 AM stations, in 14 U.S. markets.

For our television and audio segments, our strategy is to reach Hispanic audiences primarily in the United States and along or near the United States/Mexico border. We own and/or operate media properties in 13 of the 20 highest-density U.S. Hispanic markets. Currently, we seek to capitalize on growing U.S. political advertising revenue, as a result of what is generally regarded as a more competitive political environment among Hispanic voters. According to eMarketer, political advertising in the United States is expected to reach $12.3 billion in 2024, which represents a 24% increase from 2022, the last Congressional mid-term election year, and a 29% increase from 2020, the last presidential election year.

Historically, through our television and audio segments, we focused primarily on the U.S. Hispanic market, and our television and audio segments continue to focus on this core consumer. Additionally, with the growth of our digital segment, we now also focus on advertisers attempting to reach online users throughout the world. We have relied historically on TelevisaUnivision as one of the key strategic partners in our business and TelevisaUnivision remains our primary strategic relationship in our television segment. As our digital segment has grown, we now also rely significantly on global and other media companies as our strategic partners.

Our net revenue for the year ended December 31, 2023 was $1,106.9 million. Of this amount, revenue generated by our digital segment accounted for approximately 84%, revenue generated by our television segment accounted for approximately 11%, and revenue generated by our audio segment accounted for approximately 5% of total revenue.

Our principal executive offices are located at 2425 Olympic Boulevard, Suite 6000 West, Santa Monica, California 90404, and our telephone number is (310) 447-3870. Our corporate website is www.entravision.com. We were organized as a Delaware limited liability company in January 1996 to combine the operations of our predecessor entities. On August 2, 2000, we completed a reorganization from a limited liability company to a Delaware corporation. On August 2, 2000, we also completed an initial public offering of our Class A common stock, which is listed on The New York Stock Exchange under the trading symbol “EVC".

Digital

With a presence on five continents and personnel located in 39 countries, we provide integrated, end-to-end digital advertising solutions that allow advertisers to reach online users worldwide, through operations that are located in Europe, Latin America, Asia, the United States, and Africa. Our digital operations are the result primarily of a series of strategic acquisitions we have made over the last few years. For information regarding certain of these acquisitions, see Notes 3 and 10 to Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

Our Solutions

We have developed a suite of end-to-end digital advertising solutions, both organically and as a result of a series of acquisitions, that allow advertisers to reach online users worldwide. These solutions are comprised of three business units:

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Entravision Global Partners, our digital commercial partnerships business;

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Smadex, our programmatic ad purchasing platform; and

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our mobile growth solutions business.

Entravision Global Partners

Our largest digital business unit is Entravision Global Partners, our digital commercial partnerships business, in which we act as an intermediary between primarily global media companies and advertisers, which consist of either the enterprise running the advertisement or its ad agency. As such, our customers are both these primarily global media companies and advertisers. Through local sales teams that are dedicated to these media companies, as of the date of this report, we have commercial partnerships in 31 countries worldwide, primarily in emerging markets. We have contractual relationships, some of which are exclusive, with these media companies, to sell their digital advertising inventory on the digital platforms that they own and operate in certain countries. We then sell this advertising inventory to advertisers.

Some of our more recognizable partnerships include the following:

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Meta's only authorized commercial partner in 11 countries in Latin America, and Ghana, Iceland and Mongolia; although, as previously noted, Meta has informed us that they will be ending this partnership during the first half of 2024;

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ByteDance's exclusive commercial partner in Pakistan and non-exclusive commercial partner in six other countries in Asia;

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X's non-exclusive commercial partner in three countries in Asia;

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Spotify's exclusive commercial partner in 16 Latin American countries and non-exclusive partner in three countries in Asia;

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Snap's non-exclusive commercial partner in four countries in Asia; and

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Pinterest's non-exclusive international commercial partner.

In markets where we have partnerships, we help advertisers achieve their goals through a mix of value-added services, including local support, local billing and credit services, and consultation on the strategic and optimization aspects of advertising campaigns.

On March 4, 2024, we received a communication from Meta that it intends to wind down its ASP program globally and end its relationship with all of its ASPs, including us, by July 1, 2024. This decision by Meta will have a material impact on our digital operations.

Smadex

Smadex is our proprietary programmatic ad purchasing platform, which is also known in our industry as a "demand-side” platform. It provides advertising solutions to customers, primarily mobile app developers, in 116 countries. A demand-side platform enables advertisers to purchase advertising electronically and manage data-driven advertising campaigns via global online marketplaces where media companies aggregate their advertising inventory. Programmatic advertising, in addition to being automated, is intended to enable more precise audience targeting of online users in advertising campaigns because of the aggregation, analysis and use of data about the online users who are the targets of the advertising campaigns. Smadex has focused its business on mobile app developers. The services we offer with Smadex can be either self-service, which means the customer drives the ad purchasing function using the Smadex platform directly to process the purchase, or managed, which means our knowledgeable operations team implements the advertising campaign.

The Smadex platform utilizes proprietary technology, including artificial intelligence, on a cloud-based infrastructure. Smadex employs software engineers who design hundreds of algorithms that rapidly process millions of data points from previous ad campaigns, together with the ad campaign details that our advertisers enter into the Smadex user interface, to programmatically acquire advertising inventory from online marketplaces for advertising inventory. The resulting analytics allow advertisers to bid on and instantaneously acquire the advertising inventory that they value the most, pay less for advertising inventory they value less and refrain from bidding on advertising inventory that does not fit their ad campaign parameters.

Mobile Growth Solutions

Our mobile growth solutions business provides advertisers in 45 countries with opportunities to reach mobile device users. This business provides managed services similar to Smadex, except our sales teams use third-party programmatic platforms.

For the year ended December 31, 2023, we had more than 7,800 advertisers in a diverse number of industries. We do not believe that our business is substantially dependent upon any individual advertiser or industry. However, the loss of the ASP program with Meta, described above, will have an adverse impact on our digital business generally and results of operations. See Item 1A, "Risk Factors" and Item 7, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”.

Data Use

Our ability to optimize performance of advertising campaigns and help advertisers determine the effectiveness of those advertising campaigns depends on our ability to successfully aggregate and leverage data, including data that we collect from advertisers, platforms, technology companies and third parties, as well as data we access from our own operating history. Using cookies and non-cookie-based software, we collect information about the interactions of online users with advertisers and digital platforms owned and operated by media companies. Through data analytics, we also enable advertisers to gain insights into the performance of their advertising campaigns and manage those campaigns with a view toward maximizing return on their advertising investment. Key to our ability to aggregate such data is using certain tracking software in our business. Programmatic advertising companies use unique identifiers to track online user activity across the Internet and apps. It is this tracking ability that allows advertisers to both send an online user who meets the parameters of an advertising campaign targeted advertisements and determine how successful their advertising campaigns are. This tracking ability is restricted by a number of factors. This is a dynamic and rapidly evolving area. See Item 1A, “Risk Factors”.

Digital Competition

The digital advertising business is dynamic, rapidly changing and highly competitive, influenced by frequent technological advances, trends in both the overall advertising and digital advertising markets, changing customer perceptions and expectations, and governmental or regulatory oversight and action in the areas of data privacy and others.

Entravision Global Partners competes with companies such as Aleph Group, Inc., which also serves as a commercial partner to media companies worldwide. Smadex competes with other demand-side platforms such as The Trade Desk, Inc., Criteo Corp., Liftoff, Inc. and Moloco, Inc., which also have a global presence selling advertisements through their ad purchasing platforms. We also compete with global media companies themselves, including Meta and Google, as well as other media companies which sell digital advertising inventory directly through their own ad purchasing platforms to advertisers. Those media companies, like Meta, may choose to terminate their commercial partnership agreements with us and other partners and exclusively sell advertising inventory directly through their own platforms. Many of our competitors in the digital advertising business have significantly larger financial resources and/or longer operating histories than we have in this space.

Television

We own and/or operate TelevisaUnivision-affiliated television stations in 21 markets, including 15 of the top 50 Hispanic markets in the United States. Our television operations comprise the largest affiliate group of TelevisaUnivision's Spanish-language Univision and UniMás networks. Univision is among the most-watched broadcast television networks among U.S. Hispanics, and, according to TelevisaUnivision, is available in approximately 57% of U.S. Hispanic television households, while UniMás is among the leading Spanish-language broadcast television networks.

Our Relationship with TelevisaUnivision

Our network affiliation agreement with TelevisaUnivision provides certain of our owned stations the exclusive right to broadcast TelevisaUnivision’s primary Univision network and UniMás network programming in their respective markets. We also generate revenue under a marketing and sales agreement with TelevisaUnivision, which give us the right to manage the marketing and sales operations of TelevisaUnivision-owned Univision affiliates in three markets – Albuquerque, Boston and Denver. Under our proxy agreement with TelevisaUnivision, we grant TelevisaUnivision the right to negotiate the terms of retransmission consent agreements with multichannel video programming distributors, or MVPDs, for our Univision- and UniMás-affiliated television station signals. Revenue generated from retransmission consent agreements represents payments from MVPDs for access to our television station signals so that they may rebroadcast our signals and charge their subscribers for this programming. The term of each of these current agreements expires on December 31, 2026 for all of our Univision and UniMás network affiliate stations. TelevisaUnivision also owns approximately 10% of our common stock on a fully-converted basis. For more information regarding these agreements and the stock that TelevisaUnivision owns, see Note 15 to Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

Local News

We believe that providing local content, particularly local news, is an important part of serving our communities. We also believe that our local news will help us capitalize on rapidly growing U.S. political advertising revenue, particularly as such advertising targets our primarily U.S. Hispanic viewership, because of what is generally regarded as a more competitive political environment among Hispanic voters.

Over the last several election cycles, numerous pollsters and other sources have reported on both the increasing strength and competitiveness of the Hispanic vote in the United States. According to Pew Research Center, an estimated 36.2 million U.S. Hispanics are eligible to vote this year, up from 32.3 million in 2020, representing 50% of the total growth in eligible voters during this time. Hispanics have grown at the second-fastest rate of any major racial and ethnic group in the U.S. electorate since the last presidential election and represent an estimated 14.7% of all eligible voters this year, an all-time high. Additionally, recent polling, although early in this year’s Presidential election cycle, indicates an even more competitive environment for the Hispanic vote compared to four years ago.

We have benefited from political advertising expenditures in the form of significant revenue from political advertising in Presidential election years (2016, 2020, etc.) and Congressional election years (2018, 2022, etc.). Political advertising revenue was actually higher in 2022, the last Congressional election year, than it was in 2020, the last Presidential election year, and in 2018, the previous Congressional election year, than it was in 2016, the previous Presidential election year. In fact, 2022 marked the fourth election cycle in a row where we benefited from increased political advertising revenue compared to the previous election cycle, including substantial increases in political advertising revenue in the 2020 and 2022 election cycles compared to all previous election cycles.

We have identified the importance of the Hispanic electorate as a key focus for advertisers in our television segment. We have TV stations in some of the most competitive states, electorally speaking, including Nevada and Arizona; states with large populations and therefore many candidates for office seeking votes, including California and Texas; and states where a large percentage of the electorate is Hispanic, including New Mexico and Colorado. We have television properties in many states that we believe may be important in Senate and House races in 2024.

In order to capitalize on this opportunity, during 2023 we developed a strategy to enhance significantly our local news programming, which we believe will be an important path to maximize additional political advertising revenue in 2024. We have made substantial investments in our political sales team and our news operations to capitalize on advertising inventory during our newscasts.

As a result of implementing this strategy, we have added 107 new weekly newscasts on our TelevisaUnivision- affiliated television stations, delivering more than 400 hours of weekly news coverage across 415 newscasts. We believe the advertising inventory during these newscasts is valuable to advertisers, including political advertisers. According to Nielsen, our early local news is ranked first or second among competing local newscasts regardless of language in its designated time slot in nine of our television markets among adults 18-49 and 25-54 years of age, including ties. We will continue to monitor the situation to take advantage of additional opportunities to maximize political advertising revenue during the current election cycle.

Our Television Station Portfolio

The following table lists information concerning each of our owned and/or operated television stations in order of market rank and its respective market:

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CD” in call signs indicates that a station is operated as a Class A digital television service. Certain stations without this “CD” designation are also Class A stations. “LD” in call signs indicates that a station is operated as a low-power digital television service.

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We provide the sales and marketing function of this station under a marketing and sales arrangement.

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We hold a minority, limited voting interest in the entity that directly or indirectly holds the broadcast license for this station. Through that entity, we provide solely the programming and related services under a time brokerage arrangement.

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In a “channel sharing” arrangement, two broadcast television stations, each holding its own broadcast authorization, agree to share the bandwidth of a single broadcast channel, with the two stations transmitting separate program streams on that channel.

We multicast network programming streams at most of our television stations, along with our primary network program streams. We periodically evaluate these multicasting operations as well as the amount of bandwidth we must allocate to our primary program streams. The Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, has promulgated regulations allowing broadcast stations to offer, on a voluntary basis, next generation digital television services using the Advanced Television Systems Committee's 3.0 standard (“ATSC 3.0”), which the FCC has called Next Gen TV. In doing so, full power broadcast television stations must offer ATSC 3.0 services alongside a standard ATSC 1.0 digital signal and there will not be a mandatory transition period. We are considering how we will participate in the adoption of ATSC 3.0 technology and we are monitoring how ATSC 3.0 is being adopted and accepted by viewers and advertisers.

Television Competition

We face intense competition in the television broadcasting business. In each television market, we typically compete with the local affiliates of the five principal English-language television networks, NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox and the CW Network. In certain markets, we also compete with the local affiliates of Telemundo as well as other Spanish-language networks. Several of the companies with which we compete have significantly greater resources and longer operating histories than we do. We also directly or indirectly compete with all other forms of media. Advertisers allocate finite advertising budgets across different media. We believe that the advent of new technologies and services, including digital advertising, may result in continued emphasis by certain advertisers on these new technologies and services as compared to legacy media, such as television and radio.

Audio

We own and operate 44 radio stations (37 FM and 7 AM), 39 of which are located in the top 50 Hispanic markets in the United States. According to Nielsen, our radio stations broadcast into markets with a total population of approximately 19 million U.S. Hispanics, which is approximately 31% of the Hispanic population in the United States.

Our radio operations combine network and local programming with local time slots available for advertising, news, traffic, weather, promotions and community events. This strategy allows us to provide quality programming with significantly lower costs of operations than we could otherwise deliver solely with all locally produced programming. Each of our three radio networks primarily target Hispanic listeners and appeal to different preferences, demographics and age groups. We broadcast, on an exclusive basis, NFL games in Spanish in the 2023-24 season, including Sunday Night Football, Monday Night Football, and the NFL playoffs, on 15 radio stations. We have an option to renew this contract with the NFL for the 2024-25 season. Through our partnership with Fútbol de Primera, we will also broadcast the 2024 Copa América and the 2026 FIFA World Cup on our radio stations.

Our Radio Station Portfolio

The following table lists information concerning each of our owned and operated radio stations in order of market rank and its respective market:

Radio Competition

We face intense competition in the radio broadcasting business. Each of our radio stations competes for audience share and advertising revenue directly with both Spanish-language and English-language radio stations in its market, and with other media. Our primary competitors in our markets in Spanish-language radio are TelevisaUnivision, iHeartMedia Inc. (formerly Clear Channel Communications Inc.), Audacy (formerly Entercom, Inc.) and Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc. These and many of the other companies with which we compete are companies that have significantly greater resources and longer operating histories than we do. We also directly or indirectly compete with all other forms of media. Advertisers allocate finite advertising budgets across different media. We believe that the advent of new technologies and services, including digital advertising on digital platforms owned and operated by media companies, may result in continued emphasis by certain advertisers on these new technologies and services as compared to legacy media, such as television and radio.

Seasonality

Our digital operations are not significantly subject to seasonality, although net revenue in our digital segment generally increases in each fiscal quarter over the course of the year. Seasonal net revenue fluctuations are common in television and radio broadcasting, and are due primarily to fluctuations in advertising expenditures by local and national advertisers. In our television and audio segments, our first fiscal quarter generally produces the lowest net revenue for the year, and our second and third fiscal quarters generally produce the highest net revenue for the year. In addition, advertising revenue across our segments is generally higher during presidential election years (2020, 2024, etc.) and, to a lesser degree, Congressional mid-term election years (2022, 2026, etc.), resulting from increased political advertising in those years compared to other years. In addition, revenue from political advertising can be affected by such factors as actual or perceived competitiveness of races in the markets we serve, which we experienced in 2022, despite its being a Congressional mid-term election, resulting in record revenue from political advertising for us. Advertising revenue in our audio segment is also generally higher during years when we broadcast the FIFA World Cup on our radio stations (2022, 2026, etc.).

Regulation of Digital Advertising

We are subject to many U.S. federal and state laws and regulations, as well as laws and regulations of other jurisdictions, applicable to businesses engaged in providing digital advertising services. The United States and certain foreign governments have enacted, considered or are currently considering legislation or regulations that relate to digital advertising activities and the use of consumer data and personally identifying information, or PII, in digital advertising. In general, these laws limit the use of PII, impose substantial information security obligations, limit our ability to transfer data across national borders, provide consumers with expanded rights to access and delete their data and PII, limit the retention and use of that information, and provide consumers with the right to opt out of the sharing of personal data for retargeting and certain customized advertising purposes. Examples of these laws include several US state privacy laws and regulations, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, the California Privacy Rights Act, or the CPRA, and the General Data Protection Regulation, or GPDR, which applies to activities conducted from an establishment in the European Union, or the E.U., or the United Kingdom, or the U.K. These privacy and data-protection related laws and regulations are evolving rapidly, with new or modified laws and regulations proposed and implemented frequently, and existing laws and regulations subject to new or different interpretations.

Compliance with general consumer data privacy practices is enforced by the Federal Trade Commission, or the FTC, and State Attorneys General in the United States. The FTC may bring enforcement actions under its enforcement authority under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914, as amended, to challenge allegedly unfair and deceptive trade practices, including the violation of privacy policies, data security, consumer tracking and data aggregation.

We also participate in industry self-regulatory programs, including the Interactive Advertising Bureau, or IAB, under which, in addition to other compliance obligations, we provide consumers with notice about our use of cookies and our collection and use of data in connection with the delivery of targeted advertising, and allow them to opt out from the use of data we collect for the delivery of targeted advertising. Certain industry standard technology solutions seek to facilitate compliance with various U.S. and foreign laws. These include the IAB’s Transparency and Control Framework, or TCF, which manages compliance for digital advertising under the GDPR and other E.U. and U.K. privacy laws; and the IAB’s Multi-State Privacy Agreement, or MSPA, which assists advertising agencies, marketers, publishers and ad-tech companies to comply with state privacy laws. Use of these solutions can create additional costs and complexity for us in engaging with customers and digital commercial partners, and will require effort to monitor the impact of proposed changes, all of which may increase operating costs, or limit our ability to operate or expand our business. Some self-regulatory bodies have the ability to discipline members or participants. Additionally, they could refer violations of their requirements to the FTC or other regulators.

Regulation of Television and Radio Broadcasting

General. The FCC regulates television and radio broadcast stations pursuant to the Communications Act. Among other things, the FCC determines the particular frequencies, locations and operating power of stations; issues, renews, revokes and modifies station licenses; regulates equipment used by stations; and adopts and implements regulations and policies that directly or indirectly affect the ownership, changes in ownership, control, operation and employment practices of stations.

A licensee’s failure to observe current and future requirements of the Communications Act or FCC rules and policies may result in the imposition of various sanctions, including admonishment, fines, the grant of renewal terms of less than eight years, the grant of a license renewal with conditions or, in the case of particularly egregious violations, the denial of a license renewal application, the revocation of an FCC license or the denial of FCC consent to acquire additional broadcast properties.

FCC Licenses. Television and radio stations operate pursuant to licenses that are granted by the FCC for a term of eight years, subject to renewal upon application to the FCC. We continually monitor our stations’ compliance with the various regulatory requirements that are necessary for the FCC renewal process.

License applications for certain of our stations remain pending. The affected stations are authorized to continue operations until the FCC acts upon the renewal applications. We have no reason to believe that our licenses will not be renewed in the ordinary course, although there can be no assurance to that effect.

Ownership Matters. The FCC applies a series of broadcast ownership rules that, among other things, limit the amount of foreign ownership, capitalization structures, cross-ownership by directors and officers in companies such as ours. We monitor these rules carefully to assure compliance.

The Communications Act requires prior consent of the FCC for the assignment of a broadcast license or the transfer of control of a corporation or other entity holding a license. In determining whether to approve an assignment of a television or radio broadcast license or a transfer of control of a broadcast licensee, the FCC considers a number of factors pertaining to the licensee including compliance with various rules limiting common ownership of media properties, the “character” of the licensee and those persons holding “attributable” interests therein, and the Communications Act’s limitations on foreign ownership and compliance with the FCC rules and regulations.

Under the Communications Act, a broadcast license may not, absent a public interest determination by the FCC, be granted to or held by persons who are not U.S. citizens, by any corporation that has more than 20% of its capital stock owned or voted by non-U.S. citizens or entities or their representatives, by foreign governments or their representatives or by non-U.S. corporations. Our certificate of incorporation restricts the ownership and voting of our capital stock to enable us to comply with foreign ownership limitations.

With regard to the national television ownership limit, a company can own television stations collectively reaching up to a 39% share of U.S. television households. Limits on ownership of multiple local television stations still apply, even if the 39% limit is not reached on a national level. The FCC has an open proceeding to determine whether and how to apply the UHF discount policy, whereby UHF stations are deemed to serve only one-half of the population in their television markets.

The FCC has previously decided that TelevisaUnivision’s television station interests are attributable to certain of our television interests in determining the television interests we must count for local and national multiple ownership purposes. Should the UHF discount be eliminated or the nationwide cap be interpreted to treat all stations on an equal basis, we may, in the absence of retroactive applicability, which the FCC customarily does not apply, have to divest certain stations or be limited in our ability to acquire certain additional television stations.

“Retransmission Consent” and “Must Carry” Rules. FCC regulations implementing the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992, or the Cable Act, require each full-power television broadcaster to elect, at three-year intervals beginning October 1, 1993, to either:

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require carriage of its signal by cable systems in the station’s market, which is referred to as “must carry” rules; or

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negotiate the terms on which such broadcast station would permit transmission of its signal by the cable systems within its market, which is referred to as “retransmission consent.”

For the three-year period that commenced on January 1, 2024, we elected “retransmission consent” with most of the MVPDs that carry our full-service television programming in our television markets. We have arrangements or have entered into agreements with nearly all of our MVPDs as to the terms of the carriage of our television stations and the compensation we will receive for granting such carriage rights.

Human Capital Management

As of December 31, 2023, we had approximately 1,657 employees in approximately 39 countries worldwide. Approximately 637 employees were employed in the United States and approximately 1,020 employees were employed in foreign countries. We are a global company, and as a result we endeavor to have a diverse and inclusive workforce reflective of our international footprint. While we do not employ specific human capital measures in our business, we are committed to the overall health, safety and wellness of our employees globally. We offer our employees various health and wellness benefits that are tailored to the countries in which they are located, which we believe provide a sense of security. We also offer career growth and development opportunities. For example, we make available to our sales team, on a global basis, training to enhance their job-related skills.

We are committed to providing a work environment that is free of unlawful harassment, discrimination and retaliation. We have a strict policy prohibiting sexual harassment, as well as harassment or discrimination based on race, gender and other specified statuses and conditions. Unlawful harassment in any form, including verbal, physical and visual conduct, threats, demands and retaliation, is prohibited. We have established hotline and anonymous complaint processes for any employee who believes that these policies have been violated.