Walter F. Ulloa
Analyst · Wedbush Securities
Thank you, Youssef. Before we begin, I must inform you that this conference call will contain forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ. Please refer to our SEC filings for a list of risks and uncertainties that could impact the actual results. This call is a property of Entravision Communications Corporation. Any redistribution, retransmission or rebroadcast of this call in any form without the express or written consent of Entravision Communications Corporation is strictly prohibited. Also, this call will include certain non-GAAP financial measures. The company has provided a reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable GAAP measures in today's press release. The press release is available on the company's website and was filed with the SEC in a Form 8-K. We generated strong financial results during the second quarter, led by our solid core advertising growth across our TV and radio assets, as well as sharply focus -- sharper focus on prudently managing our costs. We continue to execute against the growing demand among advertisers to reach the nation's rapidly-expanding Latino population. We are successfully driving digital and mobile audience growth, and our core television and radio assets remain strongly positioned within the nation's most densely-populated Latino markets. Our 360º integrated marketing programs are attracting interest from advertisers seeking to connect their brands with the increasingly important Latino consumers across all major media platforms. Consolidated second quarter revenue was $57 million, up 5% over the same period last year, which included $2.2 million of political revenue in last year's second quarter. Revenue growth was driven primarily by solid local advertising performance at our core television and radio properties. In addition to generating the healthy top line growth, we also continued to execute our concerted plan to effectively manage our costs. Our success here is demonstrated by consolidated EBITDA growth of 10% and free cash flow growth of 41% during the second quarter. We also recently take -- we also recently have taken additional steps to strengthen our capital structure. We entered into a new secured credit facility that includes more favorable borrowing terms as well as a $375 million delayed draw loan. We plan to use the proceeds from that delayed draw loan to redeem the remaining outstanding 8.75% senior notes. As a result, we will simplify our balance sheet, significantly reduce our interest expense and increase our financial flexibility, as we continue executing our growth strategy. Chris will provide more details on our refinancing activities in a few minutes. Now moving onto our operating highlights for the second quarter. Our television revenues increased 6% during the second quarter. Excluding retransmission fees, television revenues increased 5% compared to the second quarter of last year. Local television revenues increased 12% in the quarter, while national TV revenues declined 2%. The decrease in national revenues was driven primarily by the impact of higher political television advertising sales of about $1.8 million in the second quarter of 2012. Excluding retransmission and the impact of political advertising sales, core TV revenues increased 11% compared to the second quarter of last year. Core local television revenue grew 14%, while core national revenue increased 8% in the quarter. This performance continues to outpace the broader television industry. Our core 11% TV revenue growth during the second quarter marks the seventh straight quarter we exceeded the industry's growth projections. The Television Advertising Bureau estimates that the core TV industry grew 1% during the second quarter. Contributing to our core growth success was our ability to maximize our sports inventory. We exceeded expectations with Confederaciones Cup sales, a 2-week soccer tournament hosted by Brazil, which featured some of the world's most popular national teams, including Spain, Italy, Brazil and, of course, Mexico. The tournament aired from June 15 to June 30 and concluded with the final match between Spain and Brazil. We're also pleased with our sales results from the recently completed CONCACAF Copa de Oro tournament, which aired from July 7 to July 28. The demand for these 2 high-profile soccer events have our sales teams eager to initiate our sales strategy for next summer's 2014 World Cup in Brazil. We also continued to see broad-based strength in the automotive category, which finished up 29%, marking the 13th consecutive quarter of double-digit automotive spending growth for our television business. In the second quarter, we experienced growth from all 10 of our top 10 auto brands, including new business from Jaguar. This success led to a second quarter -- to our second quarter being our highest revenue quarter of auto business since 2008. The growth was a result of strong performance for both Tier 2, plus 26%, and Tier 3, plus 43%. We continue to be optimistic about the auto category in the second half of 2013, as the industry continues to rebound and Latino surname buyers are leading the recovery in our markets. Moving now to our other television advertising categories. During the second quarter, we experienced solid growth in 7 of our 10 -- of our top 10 categories. The best-performing categories during the second quarter included media, retail and services. The media category up 77% was driven by increased investment from cost communications into 2 of our -- of their primary markets: Las Vegas and San Diego. The retail category was up 23%, expanded primarily due to budget increases from Walmart, Conn's Appliances and Anna's Linens. And the grocery convenience store category up 22% increased as a result of significant increases on ATV in Texas and new entries: Smith Supermarkets in New Mexico, Nevada; and PriceRite Supermarkets in the Northeast. This category trend has continued in the current quarter, as 8 of our top 10 categories in our television business are, up to July, led by continued momentum from Automotive, Grocery/Convenience Stores, Media and Travel and Leisure. We are encouraged by the broad-based nature of our category growth and our continued success in attracting new advertisers. During the second quarter, we added 54 new television advertisers, who invested $10,000 or more. New clients for our television division in the second quarter included Smith's Grocery, Payless Shoe Stores, Texas State Teachers Association, Aio Wireless and Connect for Health Colorado. Turning to our ratings performance. Our Univision television affiliates extended their ratings leadership positions in the May 2013 sweeps. Among all adults 18 to 34 regardless of language, 7 of our Univision television stations have ranked #1 or #2, sign on to sign off. Additionally, 6 of the Entravision Univision television affiliates are either #1 or 2 among adults -- among all adults 18 to 49. 5 of our UniMás television affiliates are #2 -- the #2-ranked Spanish-language television stations in their markets in adults 18 to 34, 8 are ranked #2 among adults 18 to 49. During our primetime novella block, Entravision television stations ranked either #1 or #2 in 7 markets, adults 18 to 34, regardless of language. In early network newscast, 10 of the Entravision television stations ranked #1 or #2 regardless of language 18 to 34, and 13 ranked #1 or #2, 18 to 49. 13 of our Entravision Univision affiliates are #1 or #2 in early local news, and 10 are #1 or 2 in late local news regardless of language, adults 18 to 34. Moving over to our radio division. Revenues increased 2% in the second quarter. This compares to estimated flat industry growth according to Miller, Kaplan. Local revenue, which represents a 68% of our total revenue increased 3% during the quarter. While national revenue, which represents 32%, declined 2% due to reduced political advertising of about $400 -- $400,000 compared to the prior-year quarter. On a core basis, excluding political advertising, local revenue increased 4% and national revenue increased 2% over the second quarter of last year. Total revenue for radio, excluding political, grew 3.5% in the second quarter. A key driver of the performance of our radio division is the steady progress we are making, generating increasing returns from Entravision Solutions Network. Since its launch in 2011, the Entravision Solutions Network has been 1 of the highest-ranking Spanish-language radio networks in terms of coverage and ratings. In fact, the Entravision Solutions Network has been the #1-ranked network for 3 consecutive quarters with its over 300 radio affiliates throughout the nation. Network revenues increased 5% during the second quarter and are up 20% to the first 6 months of the year. This revenue growth is attributable to the strong interest we are securing from major advertisers as they seek effective ways to target Latinos across our Mexican regional radio network platform. Top advertisers on the Entravision Solutions Network during the quarter included State Farm Insurance. It was a first-time advertiser for us in the quarter; and Walmart, who increased their spending by 143%. Mars was another first-time advertiser. It's important to note that radio revenue growth continues to be balanced across our key advertising categories, as we generated growth in 6 of our top 10 categories during the second quarter. Our best-performing categories during the quarter were Professional Services and Automotive. Services increased 14% in the quarter with increased spending by State Farm Insurance and Los Defensores. The auto category, which was our second largest category in the quarter, ended with a revenue increase of 13%. In addition to the outperformance in services and automotive, in order of spending, our remaining 3 of the top 5 ad categories during the first quarter were Travel and Leisure, Retail and Fast Food Restaurants. Travel and Leisure, our third largest category, decreased 5%. But despite the decrease, we saw increased spendings by Universal Studios, Disney and the California Lottery. Retail saw a 9% increase propelled by Walmart; Sears, which increased its spending 99%; and Lowe's. Fast food restaurants increased 9% in the quarter with increased spending by McDonald's and Taco Bell. And we saw the largest increase from Burger King, which increased its spending with Entravision Radio by 592% over the same period last year. We added 32 new radio advertisers, who spent more than $10,000 during the second quarter, resulting in approximately $565,000 in revenue. New advertisers included the U.S. Postal Service, Werner Ladders, Mercedes-Benz and General Motors. Our L.A. cluster once again outperformed by 10% the total spot market, local and national sales combined, as a result of strong increases in national advertising revenue and KLYY local spot. Digital revenue for Entravision in Los Angeles increased 126% year-over-year through growth in our core digital products and event integration. We outpaced the total Los Angeles radio market's digital revenue by 97 points. Total Los Angeles market digital revenue increased 29%. Entravision's Los Angeles local digital billing increased 127%, while national digital revenue increased 114% year-over-year. This growth was partially due to the rollout of ENTRALEADS, our lead generation solution for our retail-based clients. We continue to focus on selling 360º Integrated Marketing Solutions to new and existing clients. Our radio stations continue to generate leading -- leading the ratings across key demographic categories and time slots. For the spring 2013 radio ratings, our radio stations continued to be ranked among the leaders in adults 18 to 34 against all competitors, regardless of language. Among the 11 Entravision markets released by Arbitron in the spring survey, 13 of our radio stations are in the top 10 in their markets in full week, Monday to Sunday, 6 a.m. to 12 midnight. Let me now turn to our digital business. We continue to leverage our strong brands and revenue teams to deliver attractive Integrated Marketing Solutions. Now our clients can connect with our audiences across all key media and digital channels and offer new attractive multi-platform advertising opportunities. We continue to make significant progress with digital, which continues to grow fast and currently accounts for 5% of our local revenue. Our interactive revenues have grown year-over-year for 20 straight quarters, including a strong growth of 54% during the second quarter over the same period last year, and a remarkable 45% over the first quarter. Second quarter was a new all-time revenue high for our digital ventures. During the second quarter, we published more than 9,000 local new stories online across our markets. Video consumption increased 12%. Our increased digital video content is driving strong digital audience growth. Our radio live streaming operations showed solid performance. During the second quarter, we streamed 4.6 million hours, a growth of 23% over the same period last year. We now have, every month, an average of 700,000 unique radio streamers with an average session length of 1 hour. We're also entering into a streaming and monetization platform partnership with Abacast. This partnership provides us with superior-quality, cost-efficient streaming. This partnership also provides an exclusive streaming platform that our unit, Entravision Solutions, will now offer to our over-300 affiliated radio stations that's formed the Entravision Solutions Network. Our mobile operations continue to grow at a fast pace as well. Second quarter was a new record mobile revenue -- mobile revenues increased 75% over the same period last year, as usage trends remained at record levels. During the first quarter, we sent -- during the second quarter, we sent over 4 million text messages to our mobile audience on behalf of advertisers like Toyota, Ford, AT&T, Coors, Comcast, McDonald's, State Farm Insurance and many others. Mobile traffic to our websites for second quarter increased 178% over the same quarter last year and 74% over the first quarter. We're also driving increased engagement across social media, as our radio and television websites continue growing their Facebook and Twitter audiences. We finished the first quarter with 500,000 followers on our social media channels, which is up 73% over the second quarter of last year. We're also deploying a new enterprise social marketing platform that allows us to integrate our social media campaigns into our traditional advertising offerings. We continue to grow our big data unit. Less than a year ago, we launched Luminar as the first big data analytics and modeling provider to focus on the Latino market. Luminar's big data platform and analytics provide actionable Latino consumer growth strategies for Fortune 1,000 companies. Luminar continues to make significant progress with marketers and national advertising agencies. Luminar has been contracted to perform demand analysis for Fortune 500 companies including Nestlé, Publishers Clearing House, General Mills and the California Milk Advisory Board. In addition, we are implementing a big data framework at Entravision, which will lead us to better cost efficiencies and revenue growth by dynamically managing our yield management practices. We are transforming Entravision. We used to be a broadcasting group. And now, we see ourselves as an integrated media and information company serving the Latino market. Turning to our pacings. While we do not provide specific guidance, we continue to see positive trends in our television, radio and digital businesses in July. Our total revenue through July, with political and without transmission fees, is plus 5%. Core company revenue, excluding political and retransmission fees, is pacing plus 10% to July with television core at plus 12% and radio core at plus 5%. It is important to note that we aired the Copa de Oro soccer tournaments, which were not in last year's July numbers. We believe the revenue generated in this prestigious soccer tournament is about 30% incremental. Factoring the increased revenue as a result of airing the Copa de Oro games in July, our core television business was about plus 8% for the month, applying the same analysis to our radio business as a result of airing the Copa de Oro games in 8 markets. Core radio was about plus 4% in July. In summary, we generated a healthy core advertising performance across our television and radio properties during the second quarter. The strong market position of our core assets are expanding to a digital audience, and our unique integrated advertising opportunities are attracting a growing number of advertisers, seeking to engage with the Latino community. Current pacings through July demonstrated the continuation of our core advertising performance, and we remain focused on executing our strategy across our core and digital businesses to continue to drive growth in the second half of the year and beyond. I will now turn the call over to Chris Young for a review of our financial information.