Univision’s Q1 Results? Take a NAB Show Break

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On Tuesday at 8am Pacific, thousands of media industry professionals will be in the middle of a four-day NAB Show chock full of receptions, panel discussions, vendor suites and expo booths that go on for a mile.


Yet, like the famed honey badger of social media memes and YouTube videos, TelevisaUnivision don’t care. It’s gone ahead and scheduled its Q1 2022 earnings call for its U.S.-based unit at that exact time.

The Spanish-language multimedia giant, which comprises both Mexico’s Televisa and U.S.-based Univision Communications and all of its radio and TV assets, will see CEO Wade Davis and other C-Suite leaders participate in Univision Communication Inc.’s first quarter 2022 earnings call.

The results will be posted at the opening of business on Tuesday (4/26).

Although TelevisaUnivision is privately held, it holds quarterly earnings calls as a publicly traded company would.

So does Grupo Televisa, which hosted a Q4 and full-year 2021 earnings call on February 25. On the call, Alfonso de Angoitia, Co-Chief Executive Officer of Grupo Televisa, noted that over the last 12 months, the company “far-exceeded” its initial growth expectations. “Our prospects for 2022 look equally as impressive,” de Angoitia said.

On a platform basis, Televisa-Univision’s revenue for 2021 reached around $4.2 billion, representing year-on-year growth of almost 15%, while EBITDA reached more than $1.6 billion, equivalent to a year-on-year increase of approximately 11%. “We expect the strong revenue growth trend to be sustainable, in 2022, driven by several factors,” he said, pointing to a rebound in audience share in Mexico, where TV Azteca had been a big challenger as recently as 2018, and in the U.S., where Univision has seen significant growth against Telemundo, the NBCUniversal-owned enterprise.

No Q1 2022 comments or questions were seen on the call, leaving all to wait until a busy Tuesday to learn just how TelevisaUnivision performed in the U.S. and in Puerto Rico.