For Entravision Communications‘ first three months of 2026, an increase in digital advertising revenue and retransmission fees helped spark a 4% year-over-year increase in its net revenue.
That said, lower broadcast advertising revenue and decreased revenue from spectrum usage rights played their respective roles, as Entravision’s Media segment operating loss rose by 100% from the first quarter of last year.
Indeed, the Media Operating Loss was $5.22 million, ballooning from $2.61 million. While Local advertising revenue increased 6% and national advertising revenue decreased 18%, excluding political revenue.
A 64% cost of revenue increase for Media to $5.37 million, from $3.27 million, was seen in Q1 2026; direct operating expenses for the division rose by 6% to $28.14 million, from $26.6 million.
Yet, the fact Entravision’s Media division has its challenges has long been eclipsed by its global Advertising and Technology Services segment — and investors immediately responded in after-hours trading. As of 4:39pm Eastern, NYSE-traded “EVC” was up by a whopping 68%, to $6.60.
Just how robust was ATS net revenue? It jumped to $154.55 million in Q1 ’26 from $50.87 million a year earlier, fueling a 114% gain in consolidated revenue to $196.97 million, jumping from $91.85 million.
The consolidated operating profit? That came in at $29.09 million, rising from $3.89 million.
Total it up, and net income attributable to common shareholders of $12.36 million ($0.13 per share) was seen, swinging from a net loss of $47.97 million (-$0.53) in Q1 2025.
That said, Entravision in Q1 2025 took a $23.67 million impairment charge.
