Grupo Televisa Q2 2026 Earnings Report

Grupo Televisa EPS Results

• Actual EPS: -$0.05
• Consensus EPS: $0.01
• Beat/Miss: Missed by -$0.06
• One Year Ago EPS: N/A

Grupo Televisa Revenue Results

• Actual Revenue: $816.64 million
• Expected Revenue: $818.16 million
• Beat/Miss: Missed by -$1.52 million
• YoY Revenue Growth: N/A

Grupo Televisa Announcement Details

• Quarter: Q2 2026
• Date: 7/24/2026
• Time: Before Market Opens
• Conference Call Date: Friday, July 24, 2026
• Conference Call Time: 11:00AM ET

Grupo Televisa (NYSE:TV), S.A.B. is a Mexican media and telecommunications company serving customers primarily in Mexico. Its principal activities include providing pay television, broadband internet, fixed-line voice and mobile services through its cable operations, as well as satellite television services through SKY.

The company also has interests in content production and distribution. In 2022, Grupo Televisa combined substantially all of its content and media assets with Univision Holdings to create TelevisaUnivision, a Spanish-language media and entertainment company. Grupo Televisa retains an economic interest in TelevisaUnivision while continuing to operate its telecommunications businesses in Mexico.

Grupo Televisa traces its origins to the formation of Telesistema Mexicano in 1955 and adopted the Televisa name in 1973. Its services and programming have historically reached audiences across Mexico and Spanish-speaking markets internationally. The company is chaired by Alfonso de Angoitia, who has also been a key member of its senior leadership for many years.

Grupo Televisa Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• Positive Sentiment: Televisa’s cable turnaround continued to improve, with internet subscribers growing for a fifth straight quarter and churn staying below 2% for the fifth consecutive quarter. Management said the mix shift toward value customers is supporting a more stable base and stronger retention.
• Positive Sentiment: Profitability expanded meaningfully as cable operating segment income rose 5% year over year and margin reached 41.8%, the best quarterly level in three years. The company attributed the improvement to lower OpEx and synergies from integrating Izzi and Sky.
• Positive Sentiment: Fiber rollout remains on track, with about 60% of the footprint already upgraded to FTTH and the company targeting a fully fiber network by 2Q27. Management said fiber is enabling higher-priced products and better service as the migration progresses.
• Neutral Sentiment: TelevisaUnivision had a mixed quarter: total revenue rose 10% thanks to exceptional World Cup-driven strength in Mexico, but U.S. revenue fell 11% and adjusted EBITDA declined 3% due to higher sports-related costs and weaker U.S. advertising. The company expects Mexico momentum to continue while remaining cautious on U.S. ad trends.
• Positive Sentiment: Cash generation and leverage improved, with Grupo Televisa generating MXN 16.4 billion of cumulative free cash flow over three years and cutting leverage to 1.6x EBITDA from 2.4x. Management emphasized disciplined CapEx and said the balance sheet is strong for potential M&A, if opportunities arise.

Presentation

[Operator]

Morning, everyone, welcome to Grupo Televisa's second quarter 2026 conference call. Before we begin, I would like to draw your attention to the press release, which explains the use of forward-looking statements and applies to everything we will discuss today on the call and in the earnings release. I will now turn the call over to Mr. Alfonso de Angoitia, Co-Chief Executive Officer of Grupo Televisa. Please go ahead, sir.

[Alfonso de Angoitia, Co-CEO at Grupo Televisa]

Thank you, Elsa. Good morning, everyone, thank you for joining us. With me today are Francisco Valim, CEO of our telecom operations, and Carlos Phillips, CFO of Grupo Televisa. Before discussing our second quarter operating and financial performance, let me remind you that we are celebrating the third anniversary since Francisco Valim and his team joined Grupo Televisa to lead the turnaround of our telecom operations. We would like to take the opportunity to share with you what we believe have been our major accomplishments throughout this period. First, our strategy to focus on attracting and retaining value customers in cable has allowed us not only to stabilize our internet subscriber base, but to grow it sequentially for five consecutive quarters. The quality of our subscriber base has improved considerably throughout this period, allowing us to maintain churn below 2%, also for five consecutive quarters.

[Alfonso de Angoitia, Co-CEO at Grupo Televisa]

During the second quarter of 2026, our churn rate was the lowest of the last 10 quarters, leading us to believe our value strategy is proving successful. Second, following several quarters with cable revenue pressure, we experienced a turning point over the last couple of quarters. During the first half of 2026, our Residential and Enterprise revenue of MXN 23.7 billion increased by 2.6% year-on-year, we are confident this pace of growth is sustainable. Third, we have been executing on the implementation of OpEx efficiencies and the integration between Izzi and Sky to materially reduce our OpEx structure and extract synergies. Evidence of this is that our annual OpEx of MXN 34.5 billion is 18.4% lower than the MXN 42.2 billion we spent three years ago, despite the accumulated inflation of 14.7%.

[Alfonso de Angoitia, Co-CEO at Grupo Televisa]

Most of these savings come from headcount efficiencies as we move to about 25,000 employees from around 34,000 in mid-2023. This allowed us to cut labor costs by almost 8%, despite cumulative minimum wage increases of more than 50% over the last three years. Our programming costs and expenses have also been cut by around 20% throughout this period. This contributed to expanding our annual consolidated operating segment income margin by around 260 basis points to 40.7% from 38.1% three years ago. Fourth, by the end of 2024, we decided to upgrade 100% of our 20 million homes network to Fiber to the Home. Back then, we only had around 22.5% of our homes passed by an FTTH network.

[Alfonso de Angoitia, Co-CEO at Grupo Televisa]

Still, 18 months after the launch of the upgrade, we already passed 12 million homes with FTTH and are on track to have a full FTTH network in the second quarter of 2027. Fifth, our CapEx deployment approach has been very disciplined to focus on free cash flow generation, which has been our absolute top priority. On average, our annual CapEx of MXN 11.3 billion has been 36.5% lower than the average of the two years before Valim joined the company, while our aggregate CapEx to sales ratio of 18.5% compares well to the 25.8% we used to have before. Excluding the upgrade of our network, these numbers look even better. On average, our yearly organic CapEx of MXN 9.1 billion would have been almost 50% lower than before, while our aggregate CapEx to sales ratio would have been only 14.9%.

[Alfonso de Angoitia, Co-CEO at Grupo Televisa]

Sixth, over the last three years, Grupo Televisa's corporate expenses have declined by around 65% to an annual figure of around MXN 400 million, compared with about MXN 1.2 billion before. We have been able to achieve this by further integration of several functions with our telecom operations, including back office, IT systems, and procurement, among others. Seventh, over the last three years, free cash flow generation has been quite strong. As I mentioned, this is our top priority. Throughout this period, Grupo Televisa has generated a cumulative amount of MXN 16.4 billion in free cash flow, equivalent to $300 million per year. Excluding the upgrade of our network, the accumulated free cash flow would have been MXN 20.6 billion or around $375 million annually.

[Alfonso de Angoitia, Co-CEO at Grupo Televisa]

This has been contributed for Grupo Televisa's leverage ratio to decline to 1.6x EBITDA from 2.4x at the end of the second quarter of 2023. I strongly believe we are on the right track here, and we have a great team headed by Valim. The results speak for themselves. Having said that, let me turn the call over to Valim, as he will discuss the operating and financial performance of our consolidated assets.

[Francisco Valim, CEO of Telecom Operations at Grupo Televisa]

Thanks, Alfonso. Good morning, everyone. Let me start by saying I'm very proud to be here and for the achievements of the team over the last three years. It has been a wonderful journey, full of accomplishments. Now let me walk you through the operating and financial performance of our cable operations. We ended June with a network of 20 million homes, after passing around 12,000 new homes during the quarter. In addition, we upgraded over 1.5 million homes to Fiber to the Home technology, ending the second quarter with around 60% of our total footprint passed with FTTH. Moreover, as Alfonso mentioned, we are on track to upgrade another eight million homes to FTTH technology over the next 12 months to have a full fiber network by the end of the second quarter of 2027.

[Francisco Valim, CEO of Telecom Operations at Grupo Televisa]

In the second quarter, our monthly churn rate remained below our historical average of 2% for the fifth consecutive quarter, as we keep focused on value customers while working on customer retention and satisfaction. Our broadband gross adds is low due to our price increase implemented in April, more aggressive promotions from our competitors, and an earlier than expected rainy season. This led us to have softer broadband net adds of 9,400 during the second quarter. However, looking at the last four quarters, we are able to deliver over 80,000 broadband net adds, which is in line with our annual internal goals. In video, we lost about 31,000 subscribers in the second quarter, which compares well to an average of around 38,000 disconnects over the last four quarters.

[Francisco Valim, CEO of Telecom Operations at Grupo Televisa]

Moving on, our mobile net adds of 72,000 subscribers during the second quarter remain solid, but slowed some compared to an average of about 92,000 net adds over the last four quarters. The new law require all mobile phone users to register their phone lines with photo ID and their official identification may be causing a generalized temporary slowdown in the Mexican mobile market. We are well-positioned to face this new environment as all our new users are post-paid, making their registration automatic. During the quarter, net revenue from residential operations of MXN 1.7 billion increased by 1.8% year-on-year. This marks the best quarter of the last two years and a half at our residential operations from a revenue growth performance standpoint, and compares well to a full year revenue decline of 1.8% and 2.5% in 2025 and 2024 respectively.

[Francisco Valim, CEO of Telecom Operations at Grupo Televisa]

On a sequential basis, net revenue from our residential operations grew again by 1.1%, solidifying our gradual recovery. Net revenue from our enterprise operations of MXN 1 billion increased by 0.8% year-on-year is growing considerably relative to strong growth experienced in the first quarter as most of the revenue increase that we expected for this year at our enterprise operations already took place. Moving on to Sky's operating and financial performance. During the second quarter, we lost 279,000 Revenue-Generating Units, mostly coming from prepaid subscribers that have not been recharging their services. While the disconnections at Sky continues to be robust, we saw an improvement compared to the average disconnections of 325,000 Revenue-Generating Units over the last four quarters, potentially driven by the World Cup transmission. Sky second quarter revenue of MXN 2.5 billion declined by 20.3% year-on-year, mainly driven by a lower subscriber base.

[Francisco Valim, CEO of Telecom Operations at Grupo Televisa]

The pace of decline slowed some relative to a year-on-year contraction of 24.6% in the first quarter. To sum up, segment revenue of MXN 14.3 billion fell by 3% year-on-year while operating segment income of MXN 6 billion increased by 5%, showing sustained momentum on the growth rebound experienced over the last two quarters, driven by an OpEx decline of 8%. Our operating segment income margin of 41.8% expanded by 310 basis points year-on-year, making it the best quarter of the last three years in terms of profitability, driven by efficiency measures that we have been implementing and synergies that have been ongoing integration between Sky and Izzi. On a sequential basis, profitability expanded by 40 basis points. Regarding CapEx deployment, our second quarter total investments of MXN 3.6 billion accounted for 25.3% of sales.

[Francisco Valim, CEO of Telecom Operations at Grupo Televisa]

The main reason behind having higher total investments relative to the second quarter of last year was the FTTH upgrade of 1.5 million homes previously discussed. Finally, operating cash flow for Cable and Sky, which is equivalent to RevOps minus CapEx, was MXN 2.4 billion in the second quarter, accounting for 16.6% of sales.

[Alfonso de Angoitia, Co-CEO at Grupo Televisa]

Thank you, Valim. Great job. Now let me walk you through TelevisaUnivision's second quarter results. The company's revenue of $1.3 billion increased by 10% year-on-year, including the impact from the appreciation of the Mexican peso, driven by our exceptional results in Mexico. During the quarter, Mexico's revenue surged by 53% year-on-year to $605 million as the FIFA World Cup was an extraordinary success, serving as a catalyst for multi-platform growth across our advertising, subscription, and licensing businesses. While in the U.S., revenue of $722 million fell by 11%, reflecting anticipated domestic advertising headwinds, including the fact that we did not air the World Cup. While revenue growth was strong during the quarter, total operating expenses increased by 16%, or 11% excluding the appreciation of the Mexican peso, driven by the anticipated sports-related costs associated with the World Cup in Mexico and Latin America.

[Alfonso de Angoitia, Co-CEO at Grupo Televisa]

As a result, Adjusted EBITDA of $388 million declined by 3%. Moving on to the details of our revenue performance. During the quarter, consolidated advertising revenue decreased by 9% year-on-year. In the U.S., advertising revenue was 29% lower, reflecting cyclical softness in our linear business and lower ViX advertising revenue, both of which were impacted by us not having the World Cup. Although advertiser spending shifted during the quarter, we continued to grow audience ratings leading into the tournament, and we expanded CPMs year-on-year while successfully navigating a dynamic counter-programming environment. Our core business demonstrated resilient underlying trends, and we saw growth in recurring sports-related revenue driven by emerging categories such as sports betting. In Mexico, advertising revenue increased by 23% year-on-year, driven by the strength of both our linear and DTC platforms, which offered 39 consecutive days of premium World Cup coverage.

[Alfonso de Angoitia, Co-CEO at Grupo Televisa]

During the quarter, we delivered an unprecedented total reach of approximately 415 million across 79 matches, nearly doubling our closest competitor by underscoring the dominance of our multi-platform ecosystem. We saw strong demand for the World Cup inventory and our scale, combined with strategic execution across our linear and digital platforms, unlocked new revenue streams that monetized viewership. During the quarter, consolidated subscription and licensing revenue increased by 40% year-on-year, driven by approximately $90 million in World Cup sublicensing revenue in Latin America, continued growth in ViX's premium tiers, and higher linear distribution revenue. In the U.S., subscription and licensing revenue grew by 8%, reflecting higher average rates, incremental distribution revenue from Hulu + Live TV, and growth in ViX. In Mexico, subscription and licensing revenue increased by 157%, supported by the previously discussed World Cup sublicensing revenue and continued growth in ViX's premium tier.

[Alfonso de Angoitia, Co-CEO at Grupo Televisa]

ViX delivered exceptional engagement and record subscriber growth as the platform was the exclusive streaming destination for the tournament. Our World Cup strategy significantly outperformed expectations as we posted record ViX subscription revenue and the highest quarterly subscriber additions in the platform's history. ViX continues to scale, and we remain focused on driving subscription revenue growth and DTC profitability, which are our primary operating priorities. Moving on to our balance sheet. TelevisaUnivision ended the quarter with $766 million in cash, driven by seasonality and timing of advertising upfront collections in Mexico, amplified by the World Cup. In addition, we have around MXN 770 million of available capacity under our credit facilities. CapEx for the quarter was MXN 36 million compared to MXN 23 million last year, but we continue to expect full year 2026 CapEx to be consistent with full year 2025 levels.

[Alfonso de Angoitia, Co-CEO at Grupo Televisa]

Looking at our leverage, we ended the quarter with a net debt to EBITDA of 5.5x, a modest improvement from 5.7x in the prior quarter. Going forward, we remain prudent on the U.S. advertising market. We expect third quarter U.S. advertising trends to be broadly consistent with the second quarter, reflecting macroeconomic conditions and a competitive sports programming slate. We anticipate continued World Cup momentum in Mexico and Latin America, together with fourth quarter U.S. political advertising to partially offset near-term U.S. advertising pressures through the second half of 2026. To wrap up, Bernardo and I are confident that Grupo Televisa's strong balance sheet and the solid financial performance at our telecom operations position us well to consolidate our undisputable position as the second largest telco operator in Mexico after the incumbent, and to create greater value for our shareholders. Now, we are ready to take your questions.

[Alfonso de Angoitia, Co-CEO at Grupo Televisa]

Elsa, could you please provide instructions for the Q&A?

[Operator]

Thank you. We will now begin the question-and-answer session. To ask a question, you may press star, then one on your touchtone phone. If you are using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing the keys. If at any time your question has been addressed and you would like to withdraw your question, please press star and then two. At this time, we will pause momentarily to assemble the roster. The first question will come from Alejandro Gallostra with BBVA. Please go ahead.

[Alejandro Gallostra, Analyst at BBVA]

Hi. Good morning, Alfonso, Valim, Carlos. Can you hear me well?

[Alfonso de Angoitia, Co-CEO at Grupo Televisa]

Yeah.

[Francisco Valim, CEO of Telecom Operations at Grupo Televisa]

Yes.

[Alejandro Gallostra, Analyst at BBVA]

Excellent. Thank you. Alfonso, I'd like to ask you a few questions about your strategy, about your intention to potentially consolidate the telecom market. First question, Alfonso, I'd like to know what you think is more likely to happen. Do you think that Televisa is more likely to try to consolidate the market on its own, going it alone, or is more likely to bring a strategic partner for this journey? The second question I'd like to ask is, what is your intention? Are you looking to acquire 100% of whatever assets you are interested in? Will you be happy with a 51% controlling stake? Finally, Alfonso, I also like to know, how will be the leverage that you would be comfortable with on a consolidated level after consolidating any potential asset?

[Alfonso de Angoitia, Co-CEO at Grupo Televisa]

Well, Alejandro, great questions. I could spend an hour answering them, I will try to make that shorter. I guess what I would say is, we have been trying to consolidate the cable industry for a very long time. I think it's the right thing that we have to do as an industry. I think if you look at other cases throughout the world, a four-player market is a complicated market. We have been trying. Unfortunately, we have been unable to accomplish that. As the telecommunications sector in general, I would say that we always analyze strategic opportunities. This is all the time as they come. These are opportunities that we see would strengthen our competitive position and, of course, create shareholder value within our sectors. We have always tried to be disciplined as to our capital allocation and returns over the investment.

[Alfonso de Angoitia, Co-CEO at Grupo Televisa]

It depends on the particular opportunity to determine whether we bring in strategic partners or not. It depends on the possibilities, the opportunity, the company itself, the part of the sector that we're talking about. It all depends on that, on the particular opportunity as it comes. I would say as to the level of leverage that we feel comfortable in having, I guess it all depends also on the opportunity and the cash flow generation that opportunity would bring or not, and how we would deleverage in a particular acquisition. It all depends on how we see a particular opportunity.

[Alejandro Gallostra, Analyst at BBVA]

Alfonso, also regarding the strategy that you're looking to acquire, in addition to that, are you happy with a 51% stake or always looking to acquire 100% of whatever assets you're interested in?

[Alfonso de Angoitia, Co-CEO at Grupo Televisa]

I would say it depends on the particular opportunity as well. In some instances, we would like to control and operate the company, but in some instances, it would depend, and we could have less than that as well. It all depends.

[Alejandro Gallostra, Analyst at BBVA]

Thank you very much.

[Carlos Phillips, CFO at Grupo Televisa]

I would only add, Alejandro Gallostra, to your point about leverage, that as you've seen, since we changed our strategy in Cable, we've generated a lot more cash. We've been able to deleverage the company significantly below two times. Our balance sheet is very strong in case of any M&A opportunities, like Alfonso was saying. It's going to depend on the opportunity, but our balance sheet today is pretty strong to be able to deal with it.

[Alejandro Gallostra, Analyst at BBVA]

Thanks for the input, Carlos.

[Operator]

The next question will come from Marcelo Santos with JPMorgan. Please go ahead.

[Marcelo Santos, Analyst at JPMorgan]

Hi. Good morning. Thanks for the opportunity to ask you questions. I want to go more on the operational side, probably more to Valim. First question is, how much more space do you think there is to extract synergies between Cable and Sky? I think our full summation, a lot of these gains are coming from headcount reduction. At what point do you reach a steady state? I know costs always have to keep cutting and improving. The more structural changes, how far are we there? That's the question number one. Question number two would be, could you expand a bit more on your comment regarding increased competition on broadband? Because I think you gave two reasons for the broadband ads, like price increase, more competition, and early rainy season. I was interested in the second one, if you could just say a bit more about that. Thank you.

[Francisco Valim, CEO of Telecom Operations at Grupo Televisa]

Marcelo, I think that synergy is a broad name to define many things. In telecom, in this day and age, with the amount of new technologies, especially helping in terms of efficiencies on the back end of the operations, I think we still see a lot of room for improvement. Obviously, the synergies are coming to an end in terms of integration between Sky and Izzi, but it doesn't mean that we are not

[Francisco Valim, CEO of Telecom Operations at Grupo Televisa]

Pursuing further improvements in terms of efficiency. We do that on a daily basis. I would not assume that we cannot find even more opportunities in terms of how we can streamline the operations. Like I said, technology has a lot to do with that. We have been heavily invested in making sure that we have the best, most efficient operations. At the same time, that provides the customers with satisfaction. NPS is a key element of our business, but also making sure that we do that at the least possible cost is always part of the discussion. From our day-to-day operations, like you're referring to, we see opportunities for improvement in many areas of the business. Still, telecom, especially in a large organization, may take time to mature and we have several coming up in the future.

[Francisco Valim, CEO of Telecom Operations at Grupo Televisa]

We should see still improvement in terms of margins moving forward. In terms of the competition, I think that is an interesting question because there are many levels of competition. Let's discuss our subscriber base in terms of different groups. Sky is a technology that is by definition struggling when fiber is deployed all over the country. Most of the consumers are either migrating to us or some of the other players and also using more OTTs than they used to. Sky's customers typically have a higher ARPU. Obviously the migration out of Sky is something that will happen moving forward. We see that as a competition in a sense. When you divide our subscriber base, the existing subscriber base, the customers that are with us for longer than 12 months, our churn there is significantly lower than the average.

[Francisco Valim, CEO of Telecom Operations at Grupo Televisa]

Where we see higher churn is at the front end. Why? Because there is a lot of competition for the bottom feeders, meaning those people that are going after the MXN 50 discussion, "I am MXN 50 cheaper than you," and that type of tactic. Churn is higher at the entry level, but our churn is significantly lower at the end of the pyramid. Our subscriber base. Subscribers that have 12 months or more, we are keeping improving subscribers. We keep on improving our tool. Those are our focus. Why should we increase competition at this lower level? Doesn't make a lot of sense because it requires sales, CapEx installation, and definitely higher churn and lower payback for these customers. We see some of the players in the market going after those low-end customers like crazy.

[Francisco Valim, CEO of Telecom Operations at Grupo Televisa]

You can see it reflects on their CapEx, which is significantly higher than ours for those acquisitions. We are being very selective as to which channels and which clients we are going after. We can always go do this fight for this lower ARPU, and have higher net adds. The question is how long they will stay on the subscriber base and how much they contribute to the subscriber base. We don't want to go after those clients. We want to go after those clients that need more service, that are looking to a more resilient provider that not only provides broadband, but provides other services that are very appealing to them, not only in terms of the services and the quality of the services, but also in terms of the overall value proposition. That's our approach.

[Francisco Valim, CEO of Telecom Operations at Grupo Televisa]

I understand some other players in this market have a different approach. We appreciate them, and we think that they are doing a good job, but we have a different strategy, and that reflects itself in growing subscriber base, not at the rate that someone might think it's needed. We think it's more wise what we are doing. In terms of cash flow generation, just like Carlos mentioned, we are generating a ton of cash, and that's what we think drives the business in the long run. Telecom is not a sprint. This is a very long marathon.

[Marcelo Santos, Analyst at JPMorgan]

Okay. Thank you very much.

[Operator]

The next question will come from Lucca Brendim with Bank of America. Please go ahead.

[Lucca Brendim, Analyst at Bank of America]

Hi. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for taking my questions. I have two from my side. The first one, can you give some color on the increase that we've been seeing the last two quarters in lease payments? If there's a specific reason behind that and if this trend will continue or not. The second one, on the regions where you are upgrading to fiber, are you already seeing benefits from that in terms of your competitive position in the region? If you're able to raise ARPU more there or if you're seeing lower churn? Any color on that would be great. Thank you.

[Francisco Valim, CEO of Telecom Operations at Grupo Televisa]

Thank you, Lucca, for your question. Carlos, can you take the first one, please?

[Carlos Phillips, CFO at Grupo Televisa]

Lucca, the main driver of the increase in leases that you've been observing has to do with one of the efficiencies that the team at Izzi has been executing. We used to own most of the auto fleet in the company, and now we've been switching to leasing autos, which has generated a lot of savings in other lines. That's really the main driver in terms of the lease increase.

[Francisco Valim, CEO of Telecom Operations at Grupo Televisa]

Regarding the deployment of a network, the idea here is very simple. All of our new net adds are on fiber, and whenever a client has an issue or needs some service, we upgrade them from our existing network to the fiber network. That's how we are approaching this. What we're seeing is we are able to sell better products, higher prices, and more solutions when we migrate to fiber. We do not do a side-by-side comparison because it's the same subscriber base. As the client decides to see more speed, better services, we migrate them to fiber, and that's easy.

[Francisco Valim, CEO of Telecom Operations at Grupo Televisa]

This is an ongoing process. We do not have two parallel services independent. It's the same service that most of the clients actually do not know if it's fiber or not. We have a survey, our subscriber base many times, and they do not know which technology they are using in their homes. For us, it's basically a technological migration to allow us to be competitive in the long run. In the short run, the network that we have works okay. In the long run, obviously, fiber is the end game. We are ready and working towards migrating the subscriber base to fiber. We'll do that when the clients need or when we feel it's necessary for a more robust or more sizable migration.

[Lucca Brendim, Analyst at Bank of America]

Very clear. Thank you for the answers.

[Francisco Valim, CEO of Telecom Operations at Grupo Televisa]

Thank you.

[Operator]

The next question will come from Phani Kanumuri with HSBC. Please go ahead.

[Phani Kanumuri, Analyst at HSBC]

Thanks, everyone, for taking my questions. The first one is regarding the impact of Starlink. Are you seeing any potential disruptions from Starlink, or do you see them as partners in the telecom sector? The second one is regarding your strategy for TelevisaUnivision. Now that you are considering a much more active M&A strategy in Mexico, depending on the opportunity, do you plan to monetize TelevisaUnivision's stake around the M&A to maintain your leverage? Thanks so much.

[Alfonso de Angoitia, Co-CEO at Grupo Televisa]

Thank you, Phani. Yeah. Starlink. Can you put your mic on mute? Thank you. Thank you, Phani. As to your first question, we believe it would be a mistake to underestimate Starlink and what they're doing in terms of launching 800 new satellites with much higher capacity. However, in our market, with the pricing and the ARPU experience, we believe it's not a threat in the short term in the mass market. Francisco, can you describe what we're doing with them?

[Francisco Valim, CEO of Telecom Operations at Grupo Televisa]

Yeah. We have basically two approaches with Starlink. We have a B2B approach. We have signed an agreement with them early last year, we are ahead of the curve. We are using them as complementary and sometimes a backup to other services to corporate clients. Starlink is happy, we are happy. We have been moving forward very quickly with that deployment.

[Francisco Valim, CEO of Telecom Operations at Grupo Televisa]

We are also starting a new phase with Starlink, which is a B2C phase, which is also complementary to what we offer. When we have fiber, obviously fiber provides an excellent solution, but where we do not have, combining that with the content that we offer is where we are going with Starlink. Together with Starlink in both B2B and B2C, we see a lot of room for improvement, I think that's a very profitable partnership for both sides.

[Phani Kanumuri, Analyst at HSBC]

Okay, thanks. On the TelevisaUnivision stake?

[Alfonso de Angoitia, Co-CEO at Grupo Televisa]

Well, the strategy, as we have communicated in the past, is basically what we see as the future is growing ViX as our streaming service. I think we gained a lot of strength, and we moved in the right direction using the World Cup as leverage. In Mexico, ViX was the only streaming platform that had 104 games, so that was the total amount of games of the World Cup. We, in essence, launched a product that had all those games, and we were very successful with it. We sold around a million add-ons of that service. We're gaining ground and speed of growth. We're very happy with the prospects of ViX. We believe that to be an essential part of our strategic future. It's all around ViX and, of course, maintaining the strength and our market share on linear television.

[Phani Kanumuri, Analyst at HSBC]

Okay, thank you everyone.

[Operator]

The next question will come from Matthew Harrigan with Benchmark. Please go ahead.

[Matthew Harrigan, Equity Research Analyst at The Benchmark Company]

Thank you. A European telecom peer of yours, Liberty Global, had some really interesting presentation numbers from the study that McKinsey and Google did on AI-related OpEx savings. They really broke down the cost buckets where they are applicable and some pretty substantial percentage cost reductions to realize over a period of time. I know you probably have done similar things. I know TelevisaUnivision has, obviously Google is an owner there, as I recall. What do you think the long-term AI benefits are to some of the blocking and tackling operational side? Is there any concern over token costs increasing? That is certainly an issue with some U.S. companies that are involved with the hyperscalers. Thank you.

[Alfonso de Angoitia, Co-CEO at Grupo Televisa]

Thank you for your question, Matthew. It is a great question. I will answer in respect to TelevisaUnivision. Francisco is doing a lot of stuff that has to do with AI on the Izzi side, so he can answer that part. I would say that at TelevisaUnivision, we are doing all types of things with AI. We are working on the production side. This is with several specialized companies. We are working on the production side. We are working on the set designing side. We are working with special effects. We are working with the musicalization of our programs and shows. We are working with a great company called ElevenLabs in what has to do with dubbing.

[Alfonso de Angoitia, Co-CEO at Grupo Televisa]

Now you can do great dubbing with the voices of the actors and actresses with AI. This company is providing us an excellent product where we conduct, for example, a telenovela into Portuguese or into Korean. Very efficiently taking the great products that we have, those telenovelas, and launch them in Korea or in Turkey or all over the world. We are working on all fronts as to what we can do with AI. We have seen this brings tremendous efficiencies, especially to our production, to our, as I mentioned, set designing, special effects, musicalization, et cetera. We are very happy with the prospects there in terms of not only on the cost side, but also on the revenue side, as I mentioned, in being able to tap into different languages and take those products to different countries throughout the world.

[Francisco Valim, CEO of Telecom Operations at Grupo Televisa]

In terms of Izzi, we also have deployed AI in several processes, from sales to collections. It is all already embedded in all of those processes. One of the questions people ask is, what about the cost of tokens? We took an approach that many companies have taken, is bringing the infrastructure internally. We do not go outside, we do not pay, in essence, tokens. We have storage, cloud storage, and GPUs that do that internally. That has two advantages. One, we manage the cost precisely. We do not have to go messing with the guessing what is going to happen. Two, it also prevents any leakage of potential data. We do already have infrastructure and already AI in all of our processes from sales to collections. Obviously, this is an ongoing process, an ongoing evolution.

[Francisco Valim, CEO of Telecom Operations at Grupo Televisa]

Like you said, I think Marcelo had asked the same question earlier in terms of evolving the cost. We see that as improvement moving forward as well.

[Matthew Harrigan, Equity Research Analyst at The Benchmark Company]

Great. Thank you.

[Operator]

This concludes our question and answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Mr. Alfonso de Angoitia for any closing remarks.

[Alfonso de Angoitia, Co-CEO at Grupo Televisa]

Thank you for participating in our call. If you have any questions, please give us a call and have a great weekend.

[Operator]

The conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.

Participants

Executives

• Alfonso de Angoitia, Co-CEO
• Francisco Valim, CEO of Telecom Operations
• Carlos Phillips, CFO

Analysts

• Alejandro Gallostra, Analyst at BBVA
• Marcelo Santos, Analyst at JPMorgan
• Lucca Brendim, Analyst at Bank of America
• Phani Kanumuri, Analyst at HSBC
• Matthew Harrigan, Equity Research Analyst at The Benchmark Company