ENTRAVISION COMMUNICATIONS CORP [EVC] Filings

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

ANNUAL REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTIONS 13 OR 15(d)

OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2023

OR

For the Transition Period from to

Commission File Number 1-15997

ENTRAVISION COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

are

2425 Olympic Boulevard, Suite 6000 West

Santa Monica, California 90404

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (310) 447-3870

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

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None

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The aggregate market value of the voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates as of June 30, 2023 was approximately $304,852,197 (based upon the closing price for shares of the registrant’s Class A common stock as reported by The New York Stock Exchange for the last trading date prior to that date).

As of March 11, 2024, there were 80,166,193 shares, $0.0001 par value per share, of the registrant’s Class A common stock outstanding, and 9,352,729 shares, $0.0001 par value per share, of the registrant’s Class U common stock outstanding.

Portions of the registrant’s Proxy Statement for the 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders scheduled to be held on May 30, 2024 are incorporated by a reference in Part III hereof.

ENTRAVISION COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION

FORM 10-K FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2023

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This document contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act. All statements other than statements of historical fact are “forward-looking statements” for purposes of federal and state securities laws, including, but not limited to, any projections of earnings, revenue or other financial items; any statements of the plans, strategies and objectives of management for future operations; any statements concerning proposed new services or developments; any statements regarding future economic conditions or performance; any statements of belief; and any statements of assumptions underlying any of the foregoing.

Forward-looking statements may include the words “may,” “could,” “will,” “estimate,” “intend,” “continue,” “believe,” “expect”, “anticipate” or other similar words. These forward-looking statements present our estimates and assumptions only as of the date of this report. Except for our ongoing obligation to disclose material information as required by the federal securities laws, we do not intend, and undertake no obligation, to update any forward-looking statement.

Although we believe that the expectations reflected in any of our forward-looking statements are reasonable, actual results could differ materially from those projected or assumed in any of our forward-looking statements. Our future financial condition and results of operations, as well as any forward-looking statements, are subject to change and inherent risks and uncertainties. Some of the key factors impacting these risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to:

For a detailed description of these and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statement, please see “Risk Factors,” beginning at page 11 below.

ITEM 1. BUSINESS

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.

Overview

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:

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:

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

Overview

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:

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

Overview

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:

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.

ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS

Risks in Our Digital Operations

If we fail to maintain and grow our relationships with media companies, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be adversely affected.

Entravision Global Partners currently has commercial agreements with Meta, Spotify, ByteDance, X and certain other owners of digital platforms. These commercial agreements typically have a six-month to one-year term and are subject to renewal upon expiration or are renewed automatically except for prior notice of termination. Additionally, many of these agreements may be terminated upon immediate notice or with advance notice of up to 90 days, or upon our failure to sell a minimum amount of digital advertising inventory, at our partners’ discretion. For example, 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 the Company, by July 1, 2024. The termination by Meta of the ASP program will have a material adverse effect on our revenues and results of operations. For the fiscal years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, revenue from Meta represented approximately 53% and 49%, respectively, of the Company’s consolidated revenue, and 63% and 63%, respectively, of the Company’s digital segment revenue. Similar actions by other media companies or other such changes or terminations could materially and adversely affect our revenues and results of operations, alter or result in the termination of our relationship with such media company and/or result in our withdrawal from a given geographic market.

The loss of Meta, as our largest commercial partner in our digital segment, has created uncertainties and risks in our digital segment that may materially adversely affect our financial condition.

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. We have initiated a review of our operating strategy and cost structure, but there can be no assurances that we will be able to address and manage timely and effectively our costs and infrastructure to offset, in whole or in part, the lost revenue from Meta, or that the Company’s ability to serve its remaining commercial partners during such transition will not be affected. Unanticipated developments could delay, prevent or otherwise adversely affect these efforts, and we may not be successful in addressing them before they materially impact our future financial results.

In addition, we may incur significant costs associated with any efforts we may take, including but not limited to severance costs. These efforts may also result in a significant devotion of time by management on activities related to the review and implementation of any such operating and cost mitigation strategies, potentially distracting them from other aspects of our business. Moreover, these efforts may disrupt our relationships with our existing digital commercial partners, customers and other third parties, which could make our brand less attractive to customers and commercial partners. Addressing these operating strategy and cost reduction measures in light of these developments, including any related charges and the impact of any related workforce reduction, could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.

If we fail to maintain and grow our relationships with our advertisers, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be adversely affected.

The agreements we typically have with advertisers do not require them to use our services exclusively. Because they may conduct business with digital platforms with which we do not have commercial agreements, we cannot assure you that we will be able to maintain our existing relationships with advertisers, or develop new relationships with them. If we fail to retain or expand our existing advertiser base or increase the amount of advertising purchases they make through us, our revenues and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected.

Reduced advertising inventory or advertising channels, changes in the exclusivity of our commercial partnerships or attractiveness of certain advertising channels, could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

The amount, quality, type and cost of advertising inventory available through our digital commercial partnerships are subject to fluctuation. Any decrease in the availability of inventory through certain channels could reduce the services we offer to advertisers and decrease the perceived value or effectiveness of those services.

Changes in the attractiveness of inventory offered by our digital commercial partners, due to events outside our control, may reduce demand for the inventory we sell. We may not be able to predict changes in advertiser demand for the inventory offered by any of our digital commercial partners. If we fail to maintain a diversified mix or consistent supply of quality inventory for any reason, a possible decrease in the demand for our services could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

New and existing technologies and changes in third party platforms that modify the digital advertising marketplace and how advertising is conducted online could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Our industry is subject to rapid and frequent changes in technology, including the introduction of privacy-forward technologies aimed at limiting or blocking digital advertising and customized or targeted advertising. Such actions could reduce the value of our services, and have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. Further restrictions by third party platforms could adversely affect our ability to use data in our digital operations, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

If we fail to respond to changes in the digital advertising industry, our business may become less competitive.

Our business depends not only on our ability to effectively service the existing media companies and advertisers with which we have relationships, but to develop new solutions in order to meet the changing needs of media companies and advertisers. Digital platforms are quickly evolving, while both media companies and advertisers are learning more about the digital advertising industry. As advertisers further develop their own technological knowledge that would allow them to navigate the digital advertising market themselves, and to the degree that digital platforms become more directly accessible to advertisers, our role as an intermediary between media companies and advertisers could become less attractive, resulting in a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

We compete with media companies themselves, as well as with other digital advertising companies.

We compete both with other digital advertising companies and with large media companies themselves that sell their own advertising inventory directly to advertisers. The decision of such media companies to compete with us may be unrelated to the results we achieve under the commercial agreements we have with such companies and could materially and adversely affect our business and results of operations.

To date, we have relied, and currently expect to continue to rely, on commercial partnerships with a small number of large media companies for the majority of our digital segment revenue.

We derive the majority of our digital segment revenues from a small number of global media companies for which we act as commercial partner. For the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, revenue from the top five global media companies for which we act as commercial partner accounted for 64% and 60% of our consolidated revenue, respectively. For the years ended December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, Meta alone accounted for 53% and 49% of our consolidated revenue, respectively. 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.

We expect that we will continue to depend upon a relatively small number of global media companies for a majority of our digital segment revenue for at least the foreseeable future. As a result of the loss of Meta, proportionally these global media companies will represent a significantly increased percentage of our digital revenue, making us more dependent upon them in the future. The loss of Meta as a commercial partner will result in a loss of substantial revenue in the foreseeable future, and the loss of any relationship with one or more of our other media company customers, for any reason, could result in a loss of substantial revenue in the foreseeable future, and have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, liquidity, cash flow and financial condition.

In certain cases, we have guaranteed payment of fees to the media companies for which we act as commercial partner, creating a significant financial risk for us.

Some of the commercial agreements we have entered into with media companies for which we act as commercial partner, including Meta, obligate us to guarantee fees to be paid to these media companies. This puts significant financial risk on us if we are unable to collect fees in full from advertisers. For example, we allocate each of our advertisers a budget that they can use to purchase digital advertising inventory. We base this budget on financial and credit information, including information provided by our advertisers. If an advertiser were to send us inaccurate information, or if we were to fail to analyze the credit worthiness of any customer accurately, among other factors, we may grant an advertiser more favorable credit or payment terms than may prove to be warranted, resulting in its difficulty in fulfilling its financial obligations to us. We would nonetheless be obligated to pay the media company its fees from the advertising placement.

Our systems and IT infrastructure may be subject to security breaches and other cybersecurity incidents.

We rely on the accuracy, capacity and security of our IT systems, some of which are managed or hosted by third parties. Maintaining the security of computers, computer networks and data storage resources is a critical issue for us and our counterparties, as security breaches, including computer viruses and malware, denial of service actions, misappropriation of data and similar events through the Internet (including via devices and apps connected to the Internet), and through email attachments and persons with access to these information systems, could result in vulnerabilities and loss of and/or unauthorized access to proprietary or confidential information, including but not limited to PII. We may face attempts by hackers, cybercriminals or others with or without authorized access to our systems to misappropriate proprietary information, confidential information, including but not limited to PII, and technology, interrupt our business and/or gain unauthorized access to confidential information, including but not limited to PII. To the extent that any disruptions or security breaches result in a loss or damage to our data, it could cause harm to our reputation, potentially impair our advertisers’ access to Smadex and could potentially cause operational delays and other adverse impacts on our operations. In addition, we could face enforcement actions by governments in the jurisdictions in which we operate, which could result in fines, penalties and/or other liabilities, which may cause us to incur legal fees and costs and/or additional costs associated with responding to a cyberattack.

Increased regulation regarding cybersecurity may increase our costs of compliance, including fines and penalties, as well as costs of cybersecurity audits and associated repairs or updates to infrastructure, physical systems or data processing systems. Any of these actions could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations. Although we maintain insurance coverage to protect us against some of these risks, such coverage may be insufficient to cover all losses or types of claims that may arise in the event we experience a cybersecurity incident, data breach or disruption, unauthorized access or failure of systems.

We are subject to new and rapidly evolving legislation and/or regulations, as well as industry standards and consumer preferences, in respect of protection of personal and similar data and any failure by us to comply with these regulations could result in loss of business, reputation and/or fines.

Our ability to optimize the delivery of digital advertisements depends on our ability to successfully leverage data, including data that we collect from advertisers, publishers and third parties, as well as our own operating history. Using cookies and non-cookie based mechanisms, we collect information about the interactions of online users with advertisers and publishers’ digital properties, including, for example, information about the placement of advertisements and users’ interactions with our customers’ websites or advertisements. The handling and protection of personal information, including but not limited to PII, is regulated in many jurisdictions where we operate, including but not limited to the CPRA in California and the GDPR in the E.U. We are also subject to rapidly changing industry standards, consumer preferences, changes in technology, including changes in web browser technology, increased visibility of consent or “do not track” mechanisms or “ad-blocking” software, and restrictions imposed by large software companies and platform providers, web browser developers or other software developers.

The cost of such ongoing monitoring and compliance by us may be significant. In addition, any failure by us to comply with applicable data protection laws and regulations in any of the jurisdiction where we do business, or comply with industry standards or consumer preferences in this regard, could subject us to significant penalties, negative publicity and reputational damage with advertisers, or the media companies for which we act as commercial partner, which in turn could have a material adverse effect on our business, revenue and results of operations.

In addition, consumers in some jurisdictions are provided private rights of action under certain laws to file civil lawsuits, including class action lawsuits, against companies that conduct business in the digital advertising industry and personalize or target advertising, including makers of devices that display digital media, providers of digital media, operating system providers, third party networks and providers of Internet-connected devices and related services.

Proposed legislation or regulations involving certain media companies with which we do business in our digital operations could have an impact on our business.

From time to time, legislatures and regulatory agencies in the United States or other jurisdictions in which we operate, have adopted or proposed legislation and regulations, including restrictions or outright bans, on the operations of certain global media companies in such jurisdiction, including one global media company with which we act as a digital commercial partner outside the United States. While we cannot at this time determine whether or how any such proposals would affect our digital operations, revenue and results of operations, potentially the costs to monitor such developments in a large number of jurisdictions worldwide where we currently operate and may operate, the costs to comply with any such legislation and regulations which may be adopted in any such jurisdictions, and the costs to modify the way we currently do business to comply with any such legislation and regulations, could be significant.

Our international operations subject us to significant costs and risks, which risks may increase if and as our overseas operations continue to expand.

Our international digital operations subject us to many risks associated with supporting a rapidly growing business across many cultures, customs, monetary, legal and regulatory systems. Such general risks include but are not limited to geopolitical concerns, local politics, governmental instability, socioeconomic disparities, fiscal policies, high inflation and hyper-inflation, currency fluctuations, currency exchange controls, restrictions on repatriating foreign-derived profits to the United States, local regulatory compliance, punitive tariffs, different local tax policies, trade embargoes, import and export license requirements, trade restrictions, greater difficulty collecting accounts receivable, unfamiliarity with local laws and regulations, differing legal standards in enforcing or defending our rights in courts or otherwise, changes in labor conditions, difficulties in staffing and managing international operations, difficulties in finding personnel locally who are capable of complying with the financial and reporting requirements of U.S. reporting companies, actions taken by foreign governments to respond to localized public health emergencies and other cultural differences. Foreign economies may differ favorably or unfavorably from the U.S. economy in growth of gross domestic product, rate of inflation, market development, rate of savings, capital investment, resource self-sufficiency and balance of payments positions, and in many other respects.

Some of the key specific risks to which we are subject as a result of our international operations in those markets where we currently operate, and those markets where we may expand our operations in the future, include, but are not limited to:

Foreign exchange controls and other restrictions on the movement of capital out of certain jurisdictions or otherwise may adversely affecting our ability to repatriate funds.

We keep cash and cash equivalents in certain jurisdictions that have foreign exchange controls, including Argentina, Brazil, India and Pakistan, which could result in restrictions on the movement of capital, including our ability to repatriate funds to the United States. Certain other jurisdictions in which we currently or may in the future operate, also have or may have foreign exchange controls or restrictions on the movement of capital, including restrictions on repatriation of funds. Generally speaking, foreign exchange controls take different forms, but may include restrictions on the amount of funds that can be transferred or dividends that can be paid upstream to us from such jurisdictions. For example, in certain jurisdictions, including Argentina and India, we must obtain regulatory approval prior to the repatriation of funds from these jurisdictions. We work to obtain applicable approvals in the jurisdictions that impose these controls and restrictions, but we cannot provide any assurance that such approvals will be obtained in a timely manner, or at all. These exchange control measures may also prevent or restrict the ability to hold foreign currency in cash within the relevant jurisdiction. If we are unable to transfer such amounts from such jurisdictions when and as needed, we will remain subject to foreign exchange risk relating to such retained funds denominated in local currencies, to the extent we cannot convert such funds into other currencies (whether as a result of foreign exchange restrictions in such jurisdictions or any restrictions on transferring funds out of such jurisdictions). This may subject us to significant foreign exchange risk, which could have an adverse effect on our results of operations, liquidity and financial condition.

In addition, repatriation of funds from other jurisdictions may be subject to withholding, income and other taxes under the laws of those jurisdictions. If our international locations are unable to repatriate funds and/or make other payments or transfers of funds to us when needed, we may be unable to satisfy certain of our financial obligations, which could adversely affect our business, results of operations and cash flow.

Political instability and greater government control of society and local economies are not uncommon in many emerging economies, including some of the markets in which we operate and may operate in the future.

The governments of some of the countries in which we operate often exercise significant influence or control over such countries’ economies. In addition, due to a certain level of political instability, changes in government, regimes or political philosophy as a result of democratic or non-democratic actions, may result in changes in policy and regulations. These changes could be sudden and fundamental. We have no control over and cannot predict what measures or policies any governments may take in the future. However, any such changes, or combination of changes, could have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

We may be exposed to certain risks enforcing our legal rights generally in some of the countries in which we operate.

Unlike the United States, most of the countries in which we operate have a civil law system based on written statutes in which judicial decisions have limited precedential value. While we believe that most or all the countries in which we operate have enacted laws and regulations to deal with economic matters such as corporate organization and governance, foreign investment, intellectual property, commerce, enforcement of contractual rights, taxation and trade, our experience in interpreting and enforcing our rights under these laws and regulations is limited, and our future ability to enforce commercial claims or to resolve commercial disputes in any of these countries is therefore unpredictable. These matters may be subject to the exercise of considerable discretion by national, provincial or municipal governments, agencies and/or courts, and forces and factors unrelated to the legal merits of a particular matter or dispute may influence their determination.

Infrastructure and Internet connectivity in the countries in which we operate may impact our operations.

The emerging economies in which we operate, and in which we may operate in the future, may be prone to weakness in infrastructure, including potential energy shortages and/or outages, inadequate or unreliable telecommunications, and lack of adequate Internet connectivity and bandwidth. Any of these factors could adversely affect the success of an advertiser's advertising campaigns or the perceived benefit to it placing, or continuing to place, digital advertisements in those markets.

The technology on which we rely may not be protectable, which could result in competition from others who may utilize the same, or similar technology.

We rely on various technologies in our business, including but not limited to our Smadex ad purchasing platform, and the aggregation and analysis of data collected about online users in our digital ad solutions operations. While much of this technology is proprietary, we have not determined the extent to which this technology is protectable. To the extent that such technology is not protectable, others could use the same, or similar, technology in competition with us. Such competition could have a material adverse effect on our business, revenue and results of operations.

In the past we have experienced, and we may in the future experience, difficulty establishing adequate management and financial controls in some of the countries in which we operate.

Certain of the countries in which we operate historically have been deficient in U.S.-style local management and concepts of internal control over financial reporting, or ICFR, as well as in modern banking and other control systems. As our digital operations have grown, we have experienced these problems and may experience them in new markets in which we may operate or with companies we have recently acquired or may acquire in the future. We have had, and we may have, difficulty in hiring and retaining a sufficient number of locally-qualified employees to work in such countries who are capable of satisfying all the obligations of a U.S. public reporting company, including ICFR. As a result of these factors, we may experience difficulty in establishing adequate management and financial controls (including ICFR), collecting financial data and preparing financial statements, books of account and corporate records and instituting business practices in such countries in order to meet the requirements of generally accepted accounting principles in the United States, or U.S. GAAP, and the rules and regulations of the SEC as in effect from time to time that are applicable to reporting companies.

We may be unable to integrate any acquisitions that we undertake successfully, which could disrupt our business and adversely affect our financial conditions and result in operations.

We may be unable to effectively integrate acquired businesses with our own or achieve our desired operating, growth, and performance goals for acquired businesses. The integration of acquired businesses involves numerous risks, including potential disruption and diversion of management’s attention on our core business, potential unknown liabilities and costs associated with the acquired business, problems assimilating the purchased operations or technologies, failure of acquired businesses to achieve expected results, the risk of impairment charges related to potential write-downs of acquired assets; and the potential inability to create uniform standards, controls, procedures, policies, and information systems. We cannot assure you that we would be successful in overcoming problems encountered in connection with any acquisitions, and our inability to do so could have a material adverse effect on our competitive position and results of operations.

Risks in our Television and Audio Operations

We operate in highly competitive industries subject to changing technologies, and we may not be able to compete successfully.

We operate in highly competitive industries. Our television stations and radio stations compete for audiences and advertising with other television stations, radio stations and digital media platforms, as well as with other forms of media and content delivery. Advances in technologies or alternative methods of content delivery, as well as changes in audience or advertiser expectations driven by changes in these or other technologies and methods of content delivery across our segments, could have a negative effect on our business.

New technologies and methods of buying advertising present an additional competitive challenge, as competitors offer products and services such as the ability to purchase advertising programmatically or bundled offline and online advertising, aimed at capturing advertising spend that previously went to broadcasters. Our inability, for technological, business or other reasons, to adapt to changes in program offerings and technology on a timely and effective basis, exploit new sources of revenue from these changes, or to enhance, develop, introduce and deliver compelling advertising solutions in response to changing market conditions and technologies or evolving expectations of advertisers may have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations.

Changes in the competitive landscape or technology may impact our ability to monetize our spectrum assets.

We rely on the demand to broadcast multicast networks and demand from telecommunications operators to operate interference free in our markets in order to monetize our spectrum. There are no assurances that this demand will continue in future periods. If we are not able, for technological, business or other reasons, to adapt to these changes in technology on a timely and effective basis, our ability to monetize our spectrum assets could be affected and have an adverse effect on our results of operations.

We do not have long-term commitments from our advertisers, and we may not be able to retain or attract new advertisers.

Our success depends, in part, upon our ability to secure repeat business from existing advertisers, while expanding the number of advertisers for which we provide services. Because we do not have long-term agreements with advertisers, and because advertising insertion orders may be cancelled prior to the completion of the campaign without penalty, subject to payment for advertisements that have already been delivered, we cannot guarantee that our current advertisers will continue to use our services, or that we will be able to replace advertisers who cease using our services with new advertising customers. These events, were they to occur, would adversely affect our revenue and results of operations, especially if we are unable to replace such advertising purchases. Many of our expenses are based, at least in part, on our expectations of future revenue and are therefore relatively fixed once budgeted. Therefore, weakness in advertising sales would have a material adverse effect on our revenue and results of operations.

Our business is exposed to risks associated with the creditworthiness of our key advertisers and other strategic business partners.

Periodic economic downturns may result in financial instability or other adverse effects for many of our advertisers and other strategic business partners. Disruption of the credit markets, a prolonged recession and/or sluggish economic growth in future periods

could adversely affect our customers’ ability to access credit which supports the continuation and expansion of their businesses and could result in advertising or broadcast cancellations or suspensions, payment delays or defaults by our customers.

We are a party to various retransmission consent agreements that may be terminated or not extended following their current termination dates.

If our retransmission consent agreements are terminated or not extended following their current termination dates, our ability to reach MVPD subscribers and, thereby, compete effectively, may be adversely affected, which could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations.

Retransmission consent revenue may decline.

Revenues generated from our retransmission consent agreements may decline and may be adversely affected by a variety of factors. The principal factor is the reduction in subscribers as existing subscribers elect to terminate service, thereby reducing the subscriber base on which retransmission consent payments are determined. Other factors that may have an adverse effect on such revenues are network program suppliers seeking reverse network compensation, the growing concentration in the MVPD industry, and the resistance of MVPDs to continue to compensate broadcasters adequately for the programming that they deliver. All of these factors may result in the amounts that MVPDs are willing or able to pay for our programming being adversely affected.

We face declining audiences in our television and audio segments.

In general, our television and audio segments face declining audiences, which we believe is present across the broadcast industry, competitive factors with the other major Spanish-language broadcasters, and changing demographics and preferences of audiences in terms of the media they prefer to view, including streaming and social media. We anticipate that these changes in viewer habits will persist and may accelerate for at least the foreseeable future and possibly permanently. Additionally, we have previously noted a trend for advertising to move increasingly from traditional media, such as television, to new media, such as digital media, and we expect this trend to continue. As a result of these trends, future revenue and results of operations in our television and audio segments could be materially and adversely affected.

Our television stations compete for audiences and advertising revenue primarily on the basis of programming content and advertising rates. Audience ratings are a key factor in determining our television advertising rates and the revenue that we generate. If our network partners’ programming success or ratings were to decline, it could lead to a reduction in our advertising rates and advertising revenue on which our television business depends. Additionally, by aligning ourselves closely with TelevisaUnivision, we might forego other opportunities that could diversify our television programming and avoid dependence on TelevisaUnivision’s television networks. Decreases in audience ratings, with potential resulting decreases in advertising rates and revenue, could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations.

Our emphasis on enhancing our local news programming as a means to increase political advertising revenue may not produce the results we anticipate.

We have made a substantial investment in enhancing our sales teams and local news programming as a strategy to capitalize on what we anticipate to be increased political advertising revenue in 2024. We may not be successful in such efforts, either because the strength or competitiveness of the Hispanic vote in the United States may not materialize, may not be recognized by advertisers or because our local news programming and/or sales efforts may not be, or perceived to be, effective by advertisers.

TelevisaUnivision’s ownership of our Class U common stock may make some transactions difficult or impossible to complete without TelevisaUnivision’s consent.

TelevisaUnivision is the holder of all of our issued and outstanding Class U common stock. Although the Class U common stock has limited voting rights and does not include the right to elect directors, we may not, without the consent of TelevisaUnivision, merge, consolidate or enter into a business combination, dissolve or liquidate or dispose of any interest in any FCC license with respect to television stations which are affiliates of TelevisaUnivision, among other things. TelevisaUnivision’s ownership interest may have the effect of delaying, deterring or preventing a change in control and may make some transactions more difficult or impossible to complete without TelevisaUnivision’s support or due to TelevisaUnivision’s then-existing media interests in applicable markets.

If our network affiliation and/or other contractual relationships with broadcast networks, including but not limited to TelevisaUnivision, change in an adverse manner, it could negatively affect our television ratings, business, revenue, results of operations and financial condition.

Our network affiliations and other contractual relationships with television networks, particularly TelevisaUnivision, are essential to our business, revenue and the results of operations of our television stations. If our network affiliation and/or other agreements or contractual relationship with a network, especially in the case of the TelevisaUnivision network, were terminated, in whole or in part, or if a network, such as TelevisaUnivision, were to stop providing programming to us for any reason and we were

unable to obtain replacement programming of comparable quality, it could have a material adverse effect on our business, revenue, results of operations and financial condition.

Our television stations compete for audiences and advertising revenue primarily on the basis of programming content and advertising rates. Audience ratings are a key factor in determining our television advertising rates and the revenue that we generate. If our network partners’ programming success or ratings were to decline, it could lead to a reduction in our advertising rates and advertising revenue on which our television business depends. Additionally, by aligning ourselves closely with TelevisaUnivision, we might forego other opportunities that could diversify our television programming and avoid dependence on TelevisaUnivision’s television networks.

Financial Risks

Our substantial level of debt could limit our ability to grow and compete.

Our total indebtedness, net of unamortized debt issuance costs, was $209.5 million as of December 31, 2023. Our substantial indebtedness could have important consequences to our business, including without limitation.

The 2023 Credit Agreement contains various covenants that limit management’s discretion in the operation of our business.

The 2023 Credit Agreement contains certain covenants and ratios that limit the ability of us to, among other things:

If we fail to comply with any of the covenants or ratios under the 2023 Credit Agreement, or if we are unable to meet our debt service obligations, our lenders could elect to declare all amounts borrowed to be immediately due and payable, together with accrued and unpaid interest; and/or terminate their commitments, if any, to make further extensions of credit. Any such action by our lenders would have a material adverse effect on our overall business and financial condition.

If we cannot raise required capital, we may have to reduce or curtail certain existing operations.

We require significant capital for general working capital and debt service needs. Our ability to raise additional funds is limited by the terms of the 2023 Credit Agreement. Our failure to obtain any required new financing may, if needed, could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.

Our advertising revenue can vary substantially from period to period based on many factors beyond our control, including but not limited to those discussed herein. This volatility affects our operating results and may reduce our ability to repay indebtedness or comply with any of the covenants or ratios under the 2023 Credit Agreement or reduce the market value of our securities.

We rely on sales of advertising time for most of our revenues and, as a result, our operating results are sensitive to the amount of advertising revenue we generate. For example, 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 the Company, by July 1, 2024. The termination by Meta of the ASP program will have a material adverse effect on our revenues and results of operations. Similar actions by other media companies or other such changes or terminations could materially and adversely affect our revenues and results of operations, alter or result in the termination of our relationship with such media company and/or result in our withdrawal from a given geographic market. If we generate less revenue, it may be more difficult for us to repay our indebtedness or comply with any of the covenants or ratios under the 2023 Credit Agreement, and the value of our business may decline.

If we cannot raise required capital, we may have to reduce or curtail certain existing operations.

We require significant capital for general working capital and debt service needs. Our ability to raise additional funds is limited by the terms of the 2023 Credit Agreement. Our failure to obtain any required new financing, if needed, could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition. Additionally, if as a result of the decision by Meta to wind down its ASP program and the material adverse effect this is expected to have on our results of operations and cash flows, our current liquidity is

insufficient to fund future activities, or we do not remain in compliance with our financial covenants under the 2023 Credit Agreement, we may be required to seek additional equity or debt financing in the future to satisfy capital requirements in response to these adverse developments or other changes in our circumstance or unforeseen events or conditions. In the event that additional financing is required from third party sources, we may not be able to raise it on acceptable terms or at all. In such event, we may have to reduce or curtail certain existing operations.

We expect to experience fluctuations in foreign exchange rates in our overseas operations, which may increase if and as our overseas operations expand.

Our digital segment engages in business operations involving a large number of currencies. Our consolidated financial statements of our operations outside the United States are translated into U.S. Dollars at the average exchange rates in each applicable period. To the extent that the U.S. Dollar strengthens against foreign currencies, the translation of these foreign currencies denominated transactions will result in reduced revenue and operating expenses for our international operations. Similarly, to the extent that the U.S. Dollar weakens against foreign currencies, the translation of these foreign currency denominated transactions will result in increased revenue and operating expenses for our international operations. We are also exposed to foreign exchange rate fluctuations as we convert the financial statements of our foreign operations into U.S. Dollars in consolidation. In addition, we may have certain assets and liabilities that are denominated in currencies other than the relevant entity’s functional currency. Changes in the functional currency value of these assets and liabilities create fluctuations that will lead to a transaction gain or loss. Moreover, some of the countries in which our digital segment operates, including Mexico, Argentina and Brazil, have experienced significant and sometimes sudden devaluations of their currency over time, which could magnify these fluctuations, should they happen again in the future.

Regulatory Risks

Legislation and regulation of the digital advertising business, including privacy and data protection regimes, could create unexpected costs, subject us to enforcement actions for compliance failures, or cause us to change our business model.

Laws and regulations relating to various aspects of the rapidly changing digital media industry, such as data protection and privacy-related laws and regulations, are evolving rapidly and are expected to continue to do so both in the United States and many other jurisdictions in which we operate and may operate in the future.

U.S. and foreign governments have enacted, considered or are currently considering legislation or regulations that relate to digital advertising activities and the use of consumer data in digital advertising. Several states have enacted laws which affect the collection, use, retention, protection, disclosure, transfer and other processing of personal data, particularly in relation to digital advertising services, which can limit the data available for use in Smadex or the global media companies who are our commercial partners and to optimize our customers’ advertising impressions.

Privacy legislation in other jurisdictions also continues to evolve. Such legislation will require additional compliance measures, which can impose addition costs and expose us to increased regulatory scrutiny, which may increase the cost and complexity of delivering our services. We may also be required to change our current practices regarding the volume of personal data that can be collected and used for our business purposes, including by our customers.

We must comply with this large and changing body of laws and regulations in all the jurisdictions throughout the world where we do business. Our failure to do so could subject us to enforcement action, fines and reputational harm, resulting in a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. Among other things, compliance with such laws and regulations could increase our cost of doing business, limit our ability to collect and process personal data, expose us to regulatory investigations and civil actions, and/or reduce the demand for our digital advertising solutions, materially and adversely affecting our digital operations and results of operations.

Measures we take to protect PII and other confidential information, as required by the laws and regulations to which we are subject, may not be effective, and could expose us to significant liability.

While we take measures to protect the security of information, including PII, that we collect, use and disclose in the operation of our business, such measures may not always be effective. Software bugs, malware, theft, misuse, defects, vulnerabilities in our products and services, and cybersecurity breaches expose us to a risk of loss or improper use and disclosure of such information, which could result in litigation and other potential liability, including, among other things, regulatory fines and penalties, civil lawsuits and reputational harm.

If we cannot renew our FCC broadcast licenses, our broadcast operations would be impaired, which could have a material and adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Our television and radio businesses depend upon maintaining our broadcast licenses, which are issued by the FCC. The FCC has the authority to renew licenses, not renew them, renew them only with significant qualifications, including renewals for less than a full term, or revoke them. Although a substantial majority of our radio station licenses and many of our television station licenses have

been renewed for their full terms in the ordinary course, we cannot guarantee that our future renewal applications will be approved, or that the renewals will not include conditions or qualifications that could materially and adversely affect our operations. If we fail to renew any of our stations’ main licenses, or if we renew our licenses with substantial conditions or modifications (including renewing one or more of our licenses for less than the standard term of eight years), it could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. In addition, our 2023 Credit Agreement requires us to maintain our FCC licenses, and if the FCC were to revoke or place significant limitations on any of our material licenses, our lenders could declare us in default under the 2023 Credit Agreement, and any cancellation or acceleration thereof could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition.

We are subject to extensive additional regulation by the FCC in our television and radio operations.

Our television and radio operations are highly regulated by the FCC. We must comply with extensive current and any future laws and regulations, including but not limited to those concerning displacement of low-power stations, elimination or limitation on our MVPD carriage rights, ownership rules, broadcasting to serve the “public interest”, sponsorship identification, so-called “decency” regulations, and equal opportunity in hiring requirements. We cannot predict what changes, if any, might be adopted, to existing regulations nor can we predict what other matters might be considered by the FCC in the future, nor can we judge in advance what impact, if any, the implementation of any particular proposal or compliance might have on our business. Our inability or failure to comply with all current and future regulatory requirements that apply to our operations could have a material adverse impact, among other things, on our ability to build a stronger or more efficient presence in select markets, our competitive position in certain markets, our ratings, our advertising rates, our revenue and results of operations.

We must comply with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

We are required to comply with the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, or the FCPA, which prohibits U.S. companies from engaging in bribery or other prohibited payments to foreign officials for the purpose of obtaining or retaining business. Corruption, extortion, bribery, pay-offs, theft and other fraudulent practices occur from time-to-time in certain countries, including some of the countries in which we operate. If our competitors engage in these practices, they may receive preferential treatment, , giving our competitors an advantage in securing business or from government officials who might give them priority in obtaining new business, which would put us at a disadvantage. Although we inform our own personnel that such practices are illegal, we cannot assure you that our employees or other agents will not engage in such conduct for which we might be held responsible. If our employees or other agents are found to have engaged in such practices, we could suffer severe penalties under the FCPA, with respect to which there is robust enforcement in the United States.

Available Information

Our annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to reports filed or furnished pursuant to Sections 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act are made available free of charge on our corporate website, www.entravision.com, as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the SEC. The information on our website is not, and shall not be deemed to be, a part of this report or incorporated by reference into this or any other filing we make with the SEC.

ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS

None.

ITEM 1C. CYBERSECURITY

Cybersecurity Risk Management and Strategy. Our cybersecurity and data protection strategy is part of our overall enterprise risk management program, and is focused on the identification, detection, management and mitigation of security risks and prompt incident response intended to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our critical systems and information. Our cybersecurity risk management program shares common methodologies, reporting channels and governance processes that apply to the other areas of enterprise risk, including legal, compliance, strategic, operational, technology and financial risk. Key elements of our cybersecurity risk management strategy include:

As of the date of this report, we have not identified any cybersecurity threats, including as a result of any previous cybersecurity incidents, that have materially affected or are reasonably likely to materially affect our business strategy, results of operations, or financial condition. For a discussion of whether and how any risks from cybersecurity threats have materially affected or are

reasonably likely to materially affect us, including our business strategy, results of operations or financial condition, see Item 1A, "Risk Factors".

Cybersecurity Governance. The Audit Committee of our Board of Directors reviews risks related to information technology, including cybersecurity, and receives reports from our executive officers and third parties on cybersecurity matters. Management is responsible for developing cybersecurity programs, including as may be required by applicable law or regulation. Our Chief Technology Officer oversees cybersecurity matters, with support from our internal information technology team and third parties. We expect that our cybersecurity risk management processes and strategy will continue to evolve in response to the evolution of the cybersecurity threat landscape.

ITEM 2. PROPERTIES

Our corporate headquarters and main operational offices for our audio segment are located in Santa Monica, California. We lease approximately 38,000 square feet of space in the building housing our corporate headquarters under a lease that expires January 31, 2034.

The types of properties required to support each of our television stations, radio stations and digital operations typically include offices, broadcasting studios and antenna towers where broadcasting transmitters and antenna equipment are located. The majority of our office, studio and tower facilities are leased pursuant to long-term leases. We also own the buildings and/or land used for office, studio and tower facilities at certain of our television and/or radio properties. We own substantially all of the equipment used in our television and radio broadcasting business. We believe that all of our facilities and equipment are adequate to conduct our present operations. We also lease certain facilities and broadcast equipment in the operation of our business. See Note 8 to Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

We currently and from time to time are involved in litigation incidental to the conduct of our business, but we are not currently a party to any lawsuit or proceeding which, in the opinion of management, is likely to have a material adverse effect on us or our business.

ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES

Not applicable.

PART II

ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES

Market Information

Our Class A common stock has been listed and traded on The New York Stock Exchange since August 2, 2000 under the symbol “EVC.”

As of March 11, 2024, there were approximately 99 holders of record of our Class A common stock. We believe that the number of beneficial owners of our Class A common stock substantially exceeds this number.

Performance Graph

The following graph, which was produced by S&P Global Market Intelligence, depicts our performance for the period from December 31, 2018 through December 31, 2023, as measured by total stockholder return calculated on a dividend reinvestment basis, on our Class A common stock, compared with the total return of the S&P 500 Index, the S&P Broadcasting & Cable TV Index and the Dow Jones U.S. Media Index. This graph assumes $100 was invested in each of our Class A Common Stock, the S&P 500 Index, the S&P Broadcasting & Cable TV Index and the Dow Jones U.S. Media Index, as of the market close on December 31, 2018. Starting in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, we added the Dow Jones U.S. Media Index, which was not included in the years prior to 2021, to reflect that we are a U.S.-based media company that has diversified our operations beyond broadcasting to include our digital operations. Upon request, we will furnish to stockholders a list of the component companies of such indices.

We caution that the stock price performance shown in the graph below should not be considered indicative of potential future stock price performance.

COMPARISON OF 5 YEAR CUMULATIVE TOTAL RETURN

Among Entravision Communications Corporation, the S&P 500 Index, the S&P Broadcasting Index,

and the Dow Jones U.S. Media Index

Dividend Policy

We currently pay a dividend on our Class A common stock and Class U common stock. Our future dividend policy, including the amount of any dividend, will depend on factors considered relevant in the discretion of the Board of Directors, which may include, among other things, our earnings, capital requirements and overall financial condition. In addition, the 2023 Credit Agreement places certain restrictions on our ability to pay dividends on any class of our common stock.

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

On March 1, 2022, our Board of Directors approved a share repurchase program of up to $20 million of our Class A common stock. Under this share repurchase program, we are authorized to purchase shares of our Class A common stock from time to time through open market purchases or negotiated purchases, subject to market conditions and other factors.

We did not repurchase any shares of our Class A common stock during 2023. As of December 31, 2023, we have repurchased a total of 1.8 million shares of our Class A common stock under the current share repurchase program for an aggregate purchase price of $11.3 million, or an average price per share of $6.43. All such repurchased shares were retired as of December 31, 2023.

ITEM 6. RESERVED

ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

The following discussion of our consolidated results of operations and cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021 and consolidated financial condition as of December 31, 2023 and 2022 should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and the related notes included elsewhere in this annual report on Form 10-K.

The discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations for 2023 compared to 2022 appears below. As permitted by SEC rules, we have omitted the discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations for 2022 compared to 2021. See Item 7, “Management’s Discussions and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”, in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, for this discussion.

OVERVIEW

See "Item 1. Business" for an overview of our business, the industry in which we operate, certain industry trends and important recent business developments.

2023 Highlights

Acquisitions and Dispositions

See Notes 3 and 10 to Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for details.

Recent Developments

Through Entravision Global Partners, our digital commercial partnerships business, we act as an intermediary between primarily global media companies and advertisers. These global media companies include Meta, for whom the Company acts as an ASP, ByteDance, X Corp., Spotify, Snap and Pinterest, as well as other media companies, in 31 countries worldwide.

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. For the fiscal years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, ASP revenue from Meta represented approximately 53% and 49%, respectively, of the Company’s consolidated revenue and 63% and 63%, respectively, of the Company’s digital segment revenue. We are currently evaluating the overall impact of Meta’s decision on our digital advertising business, but expect that our consolidated and digital segment revenue and cash flow from operations will be materially and adversely affected in future periods as a result of the planned termination of such program by Meta. We have initiated a review of our operating strategy and cost structure, but such plans may not be sufficient or timely enough to offset the expected loss of revenue, and therefore may also adversely affect liquidity in future periods.

RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

Separate financial data for each of the Company’s operating segments is provided below. Segment operating profit (loss) is defined as operating profit (loss) before corporate expenses, change in fair value of contingent consideration, impairment charge, other operating (gain) loss, and foreign currency (gain) loss. The Company evaluates the performance of its operating segments based on the following (in thousands):