Entravision Communications

Entravision Communications Corp.

Company type	Public
Traded as	NYSE:  EVC Russell 2000 component
Industry	Media and Entertainment
Founded	1996;29 years ago (1996)
Founder	Walter Ulloa
Headquarters	Santa Monica, California , United States
Key people	Michael Christenson (CEO) Jeffrey A. Liberman (President and COO)
Owner	William F. McCarter (71%), Walter Ulloa estate (12%) [1] TelevisaUnivision (10%) [1] [2] Philip Wilkinson (5%) [1] Paul Zevnik (4%) [1]
Website	entravision.com

Entravision Communications Corporation is an American media company based in Santa Monica, California. Entravision primarily caters to the Spanish-speaking Hispanic community and owns television and radio stations and outdoor media, in several of the top Hispanic markets. It is the largest affiliate group of the Univision and UniMás television networks. ^[3] Entravision also owns a small number of English-language television and radio stations.^{[ citation needed ]}

History

On August 4, 2006, Entravision sold five of its radio stations in the Dallas–Fort Worth area to Liberman Broadcasting. ^[4] On May 16, 2008, the company sold its outdoor media division, whose operations were primarily based in New York and Los Angeles, to Lamar Advertising Company. ^[5]

In 2007, Entravision Communications Corporation acquired Spanish-language radio station WNUE-FM serving the Orlando, Florida, market from Mega Communications for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $24 million. ^[6]

On 2018, Entravision acquired Barcelona based DSP Smadex. ^[7]

In October 2020, the company announced the acquisition of a majority stake in Latin American digital media company Cisneros Interactive from Grupo Cisneros. ^[8]

Business

The company owns multiple radio and television stations, and a sales and marketing business.

Radio

• BRANDS On Radio And El Boton App

La Tricolor: Regional Mexican (10 Stations)

La Suavecita: Spanish Adult Hits (11 Stations)

Fuego: Spanish Urban / Reggaeton (7 Stations)

TUDN Radio: Spanish Sports (5 Stations)

José: Regional Mexican, Spanish Adult Hits And Ranchera (2 Stations)

Viva: Cumbias, Reggaeton, & Salsa (1 Station)

The Fox: Classic Hits (1 Station)

RGV: 80s & 90s Hits (1 Station)

Q: Classic Rock (1 Station)

• ONLINE ONLY On Elboton.com Or El Boton App

Super Estrella: Spanish Rock & Pop

Radio Romántica: Romantic Ballads

Tocada Alternativa: Alternative Rock

La Plebona: Corridos Tumbados & More

Market	Callsign	Frequency	Branding
Aspen, Colorado	KPVW	107.1FM / 104.3FM	La Tricolor
Denver, Colorado	KJMN	92.1FM	La Suavecita
	KXPK	96.5FM	La Tricolor
	KMXA	1090AM	TUDN Denver
El Centro, California	KSEH	94.5FM	La Suavecita
	KMXX	99.3FM	La Tricolor
El Paso, Texas	KOFX	92.3FM	The Fox
	KINT-FM	93.9FM	La Suavecita
	KYSE	94.7FM	Fuego
	KHRO	1150AM	La Suavecita
	KSVE	1650AM	TUDN El Paso
Las Vegas, Nevada	KRRN	92.7FM	Fuego
	KQRT	105.1FM	La Tricolor
Los Angeles, California	KLYY	97.5FM	José
	KDLD	103.1FM	Viva
	KDLE		Viva
	KSSC	107.1FM	José
	KSSD		José
	KSSE		José
Lubbock, Texas	KAIQ	95.5FM	La Tricolor
	KBZO	1460AM	TUDN Lubbock
McAllen/Rio Grande Valley	KFRQ	94.5FM	Q (All Rock)
	KKPS	99.5FM	Fuego
	KNVO-FM	101.1FM	La Suavecita
	KVLY	107.9FM	RGV-FM
Miami, Florida	WLQY	1320AM	WLQY AM
Modesto, California	KTSE-FM	97.1FM	La Suavecita
	KCVR-FM	98.9FM	Fuego
Monterey/Salinas, California	KLOK-FM / K260AA	99.5FM / 99.9FM	La Tricolor
	KSES-FM	107.1FM	La Suavecita
	KMBX	700AM	ESNE Radio
Palm Springs, California	KLOB	94.7FM	La Suavecita
	KPST-FM	103.5FM	Fuego
Phoenix, Arizona	KLNZ	103.5FM	La Tricolor
	KFUE	106.7FM	Fuego
	KVVA-FM	107.1FM	La Suavecita
	KBMB	710AM	TUDN Phoenix
Reno, Nevada	KRNV-FM	102.1FM	La Tricolor
Sacramento, California	KRCX-FM	99.9FM	La Tricolor
	KHHM	101.9FM	Fuego
	KNTY	103.5FM	Real Country
	KXSE	104.3FM	La Suavecita
Santa Fe, New Mexico	KRZY-FM	105.9FM	La Suavecita
	KRZY	1450AM	TUDN Albuquerque
Stockton, California	KMIX	100.9FM	La Tricolor

Television

Market	Callsign	Channel	Network	Notes
Albuquerque, New Mexico	KTFQ-TV	41	UniMás
	KLUZ-TV	14	Univisión	Station owned by Univisión and operated by Entravision under a local marketing agreement.
Boston, Massachusetts	WUNI	66	Univisión	Station owned by Univisión and operated by Entravision under a local marketing agreement.
	WUTF-TV	27	UniMás
Colorado Springs, Colorado	KVSN-DT	48	Univisión
	KGHB-CD	27	UniMás
Corpus Christi, Texas	KORO	28	Univisión
	KCRP-CD	41	UniMás
Denver, Colorado	KTFD-TV	50	UniMás
	KCEC	14	Univisión	Station owned by Univisión and operated by Entravision under a local marketing agreement.
El Centro, California	KVYE	7	Univisión,
	KAJB	54	UniMás	Station owned by Calipatria Broadcasting Company and operated by Entravision under a Joint sales agreement.
El Paso, Texas	KINT-TV	26	Univisión
	KTFN	65	UniMás
Hagerstown, Maryland	WJAL	68	LATV
Hartford, Connecticut	WUVN	18	Univisión
	WHTX-LD	43	Univisión
	WUTH-CD	47	UniMás
Laredo, Texas	KLDO-TV	27	Univisión
	KXOF-CD	31	Fox
	KETF-CD	39	UniMás,
Las Vegas, Nevada	KINC	15	Univisión
	KELV-LD	27	UniMás
	KNTL-LD	15	Univisión
Lubbock, Texas	KBZO-LD	51	Univisión
McAllen, Texas	KXFX-CD	67	Fox	Repeats KMBH-LD.
	KCWT-CD	21	The CW Plus PBS (DT4)
	KTFV-CD	32	UniMás
	KNVO	48	Univisión
	KMBH-LD	67	Fox The CW (DT2)
	KFXV	60	Fox	Repeats KMBH-LD.
Midland, Texas	KUPB	18	Univisión
Salinas/Monterey, California	KDJT-CD	33	UniMás
	KSMS-TV	67	Univisión
Orlando, Florida	WOTF-TV	26	Grit
Palm Springs, California	KVER-CD	41	Univisión
	KVES-LD	28	Univisión
	KEVC-CD	5	UniMás
	KMIR-TV	36	NBC
	KPSE-LD	50	MyNetworkTV
Reno, Nevada	KREN-TV	27	Univisión
	KRNS-CD	46	UniMás
San Angelo, Texas	KANG-LD	31	UniMás
	KEUS-LD	41	Univisión
San Diego, California	KBNT-CD	17	Univisión
	KHAX-LD	17	Univisión
	K03JB-D	17	Univisión
	KDTF-LD	36	UniMás
	XHDTV-TDT	49	Milenio Televisión	Mexican station; owned by Televisora Alco and operated by Entravision.
Santa Barbara, California	K10OG-D	10	UniMás
	K17GD-D	17	Univisión
	K32LT-D	28	Univisión
	KTSB-CD	35	UniMás
	KPMR	38	Univisión
Tampa, Florida	WFTT-TV	62	Religious
Washington, D.C.	WMDO-CD	47	LATV
Derby-Wichita-Hutchinson, Kansas	KDCU-DT	46	Univisión

Other holdings

• Entravision Solutions (50 percent) – National spot radio advertising representative specializing in Spanish-language stations; co-owned with Lotus Communications. ^[9]

Formerly owned media properties

• New York City – El Diario La Prensa (now owned by ImpreMedia)
• Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas – KTCY 101.7 FM (Sold to Liberman Broadcasting)
• Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas – KRVA La Buena 1600 (Sold to Mortenson Broadcasting)
• Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas – KZMP Radio Saalam Namaste FM 104.9/AM 1540 (Sold to Liberman Broadcasting)
• Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas – KZZA Casa 106.7 FM (Sold to Liberman Broadcasting)
• San Jose, California – KBRG 100.3 FM "Radio Romántica" (Sold to Univision)
• San Jose, California – KLOK 1170 AM (Sold to Univision)
• Salinas, California - KCBA (sold to News-Press & Gazette Company)
• New York, New York – Vista Media Group, an outdoor advertising division (Sold to Lamar Advertising Company)
• Reno, Nevada – KNVV-LP (license cancelled by FCC May 23, 2014)
• Tampa, Florida – WVEA-LP (license cancelled by FCC April 22, 2015)
• Denver, Colorado – KDVT-LP (license cancelled by FCC September 13, 2017)
• Albuquerque, New Mexico – KTFA-LP (license cancelled by FCC January 17, 2018)
• Las Vegas, Nevada – KMCC (Sold to Ion Media Networks on April 3, 2020)
• Mesquite, etc., Nevada - KWWB-LP (license cancelled by FCC July 10, 2021)
• San Diego, California – KTCD-LP (license cancelled by FCC on August 9, 2021)
• Orlando, Florida - WNUE-FM (Sold to Radio Training Network on July 20, 2021)
• Houston, Texas - KGOL (Sold to FM Media Ventures on August 30, 2021)
• McAllen, Texas - XHRIO-TDT (license cancelled by IFT December 31, 2021)
• El Centro, California - KWST (Sold to El Sembrador Ministries on May 26, 2022)

References

1. "Ownership Report for Commercial Broadcast Stations". Federal Communications Commission. December 19, 2013. Retrieved September 24, 2014.
2. "Summary of ENTRAVISION COMMUNICATIONS CORP". Yahoo! Finance. March 10, 2014. Retrieved September 24, 2014.
3. "Entravision". Entravision.com. Retrieved April 4, 2018.
4. "Calif. media company to buy Dallas radio stations". Dallas.bizjournals/com. Retrieved November 8, 2021.
5. "Entravision Communications Corporation Completes Sale of Outdoor Advertising Operations". Reuters.com. Archived from the original on September 18, 2012. Retrieved November 8, 2021.
6. "ENTRAVISION COMM: Acquired Mega Comm.'s WNUE-FM" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 12, 2013. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
7. "Entravision expands digital advertising unit with acquisition of Smadex". Media Moves. June 13, 2018. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
8. "Leading Hispanic media company Entravision Communications Corp. acquires Cisneros Interactive". South Florida Business Journal. October 16, 2020. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
9. "Entravision's National Radio Spot Services To Wind Down". Rbr.com. December 3, 2019. Retrieved March 3, 2021.