Televisa is the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world based on its market capitalization and a major participant in the international entertainment business. It operates four broadcast channels in Mexico City, produces and distributes 24 pay-TV brands for distribution in Mexico and the rest of the world, and exports its programs and formats to the U.S. through Univision Communications Inc. (“Univision”) and to other television networks in over 50 countries. Televisa is also an active participant in Mexico’s telecommunications industry. It has a majority interest in Sky, a leading direct-to-home satellite television system operating in Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Central America and in four cable and telecommunications businesses: Cablevisión, Cablemás, TVI, and Bestel. Through its cable companies, Televisa offers video, voice, and broadband services. Televisa also has interests in magazine publishing and distribution, radio production and broadcasting, professional sports and live entertainment, feature-film production and distribution, the operation of a horizontal Internet portal, and gaming. In addition, Televisa has a 50% equity stake in GSF Telecom Holdings, S.A.P.I. de C.V. (“GSF”), the controlling company of Grupo Iusacell, S.A. de C.V. (“Iusacell”), Mexico’s third largest mobile telecom provider in terms of sales. In the United States, Televisa has equity and debentures that, upon conversion and subject to any necessary approval from the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) in the United States, would represent approximately 38% on a fully diluted, as-converted basis of the equity capital in Broadcasting Media Partners, Inc. (“BMP”), the controlling company of Univision, the leading media company serving the United States Hispanic market.
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