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Entravision Communications Corporation (EVC)

Q4 2025 Earnings Call· Thu, Mar 5, 2026

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Roy Nir

Management

Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to Entravision's Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 Earnings Call. I'm Roy Nir, Vice President of Financial Reporting and Investor Relations. Joining me today to discuss our results are Michael Christenson, our Chief Executive Officer; and Mark Boelke, our Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Before we begin, I would like to inform you that this call will contain forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ. Please refer to Entravision's SEC filings for a list of risks and uncertainties that could impact actual results. The press release is available on the company's Investor Relations page and was filed with the SEC on Form 8-K. Additional information may also be found on our annual report on Form 10-K, which was also filed today. Our call today is using Zoom. If you'd like to ask a question, please use the Q&A function on the screen, during the call, indicate you name and company, and submit your question in writing. We will try to answer any questions that relate to the topics contained in today's call during the Q&A session. I will now turn the call over to Michael Christenson.

Michael Christenson

Management

Thanks, Roy, and thank you to those of you joining this call today. We appreciate your interest and your support. As you saw in our press release, on a consolidated basis, Entravision increased revenue 26% to $134 million in 4Q '25 compared to 4Q '24. We had an operating loss of $21 million in 4Q '25 compared to an operating loss of $49 million in 4Q '24. The 4Q '25 operating loss included a $26 million noncash impairment charge. So we would have had an operating profit if we exclude that adjustment. But as we've said on prior calls, we're committed to growing our business and earning a profit. So we acknowledge that we have work to do to improve our operating performance and profitability, especially in our Media business. We report our results for 2 segments: Media and Advertising Technology & Services, what we call ATS. For our Media segment, our revenue declined 32% in 4Q '25 compared to 4Q '24. This decline was primarily due to lower political revenue. Excluding political revenue, our 4Q '25 results included a 4% increase in local advertising revenue and a 5% decrease in national advertising revenue. Our local operations had 3% lower monthly active advertisers, but this was offset by an 8% increase in revenue per monthly active advertiser. In terms of operating expenses and profitability, as we have discussed in the past, we made a number of important investments in our media business in 2025. We added capacity to our local sales teams, more sellers, and we added digital sales specialists and digital sales operations capabilities, more digital. When we analyzed our local markets and our local advertiser base, we saw an opportunity to increase revenue by adding sales capacity. In addition, virtually all our local advertising customers are advertising in…

Mark Boelke

Management

Thank you, Mike. I'll start by reviewing the performance of each of our 2 reporting segments, again, Media and Advertising Technology & Services. In our Media segment, fourth quarter revenue was $45.8 million, which was down 32% compared to fourth quarter 2024. Full year 2025 revenue was $176.7 million, down 20% compared to full year 2024. As we've noted on previous calls, our Media business began slowly in 2025, in part due to advertiser uncertainty in the environment of a new administration and federal immigration enforcement actions. In addition, there was significant political advertising in 2024 that was not present in 2025. However, we've seen sequential quarterly improvements in revenue as we move through 2025, particularly in local ad sales, and we're seeing momentum and progress in the execution of our revenue strategies. One of our goals is to optimize our organizational structure and the expense of support services in order to align them with revenue and to be profitable in each segment as well as on a consolidated basis. Let's look at total operating expense for the Media business, again, meaning the sum of direct operating expense and selling, general and administrative expense, or SG&A, as those 2 line items are reported in our segment results. Media segment total operating expense in the fourth quarter decreased $2.5 million compared to fourth quarter '24, a decrease of 6%. Operating expense was flat for full year 2025 compared to full year 2024. Starting in Q3 '25, we have taken steps under an ongoing organizational design plan intended to support revenue growth and reduce expenses in our Media segment. Key components of this plan included a reduction in Q3 and Q4 of approximately 5% of the Media segment's total workforce, primarily in back-office roles, and we abandoned several leased facilities with impacted…

Roy Nir

Operator

Thank you, Mark. [Operator Instructions] The first question is regarding the outlook for political revenue in 2026. Mike, do you want to address that?

Michael Christenson

Management

Yes. So as of today, we are 243 days away from election day 2026. And as you can see in the news, primaries are underway across the country. I think we're very well positioned for a strong political spending environment in 2026. As we've said on prior calls, we believe the Latino vote will be critical to the outcome of the congressional elections in all -- in our 6 Southwestern states. The Cook Political Report lists the 35 closest races of the 435 congressional races, and we are fortunate to have 11 of those 35 in our markets. We also have the important Texas U.S. Senate race, which is, again, getting a lot of press. And then finally, we have governors' races in California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas. So we're very well positioned. And what I would say is, which we've also said on past calls, we believe the Latino vote will be critical to the outcome of these elections. Studies have shown that Latinos are the most persuadable segment of the electorate, and we have a powerful channel for reaching that audience. And what we will say to make it very clear, what we say to everyone, we can get to listen to our pitch, you must win the Latino vote to win your election. And if you want to win the Latino vote, you should double or triple your allocation to Spanish language media. So again, we're very optimistic about how we're positioned for 2026.

Roy Nir

Operator

Thank you, Mike. We received another question related to the status of renewing the affiliation agreement with TU. Can you provide an update on that?

Michael Christenson

Management

Sure. Not much to update since our last call, what we said last time, and it's still the case today. The affiliation agreement with TelevisaUnivision runs through December 31, '26. We've been partners for 3 decades, and our plan is to renew this agreement. So we expect to renew this agreement. But that's all I can say at this point.

Roy Nir

Operator

Thank you, Mike. Please hold as we review additional questions. Thank you, everyone, for joining us today. Mike, I'll turn it back to you for closing remarks.

Michael Christenson

Management

At this point, we'll say thanks, Roy, and thank you again to all of you who are joining our call today. We look forward to speaking with you again when we report our 2026 first quarter results. Thank you very much.