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Urban One, Inc. (UONE)

Q3 2024 Earnings Call· Tue, Nov 12, 2024

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Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by and welcome to the Urban One 2024 Third Quarter Earnings Call. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. We will begin the call with the following safe harbor statement. During this conference call, Urban One will be sharing with you certain projections or other forward-looking statements regarding future events or its future performance. Urban One cautions you that certain factors, including risks and uncertainties referred to in the 10-Ks, 10-Qs, and other reports it periodically files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, could cause the company's actual results to differ materially from those indicated by its projections or forward-looking statements. This call will present information as of November 12, 2024. Please note that Urban One disclaims any duty to update any forward-looking statements made in the presentation. In this call, Urban One may also discuss some non-GAAP financial measures in talking about its performance. These measures will be reconciled to GAAP either during the course of this call or in the company's press release, which can be found on its website at www.urban1.com. A replay of this conference call will be available from 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time, November 12, 2024, until 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time, November 19, 2024. Callers may access the replay by calling 1 (866) 207-1041. International callers may dial directly at 1 (402) 970-0847. The replay access code is 3607803. Access to live audio and a replay of the conference will also be available on Urban One's corporate website at www.urban1.com. The replay will be made available on the website for 7 days after the call. No other recordings or copies of this call are authorized or may be relied upon. I will now turn the call over to Alfred C. Liggins, Chief Executive Officer of Urban One, who is joined by Peter Thompson, Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Liggins, please go ahead.

Alfred Liggins

Operator

Thank you, operator, very much. Also joining us is Kris Simpson, who's our General Counsel; Karen Wishart, our Chief Administrative Officer; and Jody Drewer, our Chief Financial Officer at TV One. Thanks, and welcome to the Q3 earnings call. As you've seen in the press release, we released our numbers this morning for Q3. We've continued to experience advertising headwinds in Q3 as we've expected. So the company has continued to reduce its indebtedness. In the quarter, we repurchased $14.5 million of our outstanding bonds at $0.75 on the dollar. Q4 -- excuse me, revenues are forecasting at this point to be almost about flat because of a robust political spending of approximately $20.5 million. That's in comparison to about $22.5 million in 2020. So not quite as good but not bad. However, there is a continuing weakness in our Cable TV segment. That's going to require us to modify our year-end EBITDA guide from $110 million to a range of $102 million to $105 million. We expect to have a year-end cash balance of $140 million by 12/31 of this year. And we'll continue to manage through this in a prudent manner and march towards our continued debt reduction. With that, I'm going to turn it over to Peter Thompson to go through the details of the quarter, and then we'll open it up for Q&A. Peter?

Peter Thompson

Analyst

Thank you, Alfred. And just to clarify, those are full-year political numbers, not just Q4. Obviously, the bulk is in Q4, but they were full-year numbers that Alfred gave and full-year comps for 2020. Just going through the numbers. Consolidated net revenues was down 6.3% year-over-year for the 3 months ended September 30, 2024, at approximately $110.4 million. Net revenue for the radio broadcasting segment was $39.7 million, a decrease of 1.1% year-over-year, but down 3.6% on a same-station basis. Excluding political, net revenue was down 4.8% year-over-year, down 7.7% on a same-station basis. According to Miller Kaplan, our local advertising sales were down 4.7% against our markets that were down 5.7%. And national advertising sales were down 6.2% against our markets that were down 0.6%. Net revenue for the Reach Media segment was $10.2 million in the third quarter, down 8.2% from the prior year, and adjusted EBITDA was $3.7 million for the quarter, up from $3.4 million last year. Net revenues for the digital segment were flat in Q3 at $20.4 million direct national sales were down, driven by decreased advertiser demand, but connected TV and podcast revenue showed growth compared to last year. Adjusted EBITDA for that segment was $6.4 million, down 13.5%. We recognized approximately $40.7 million of revenue from our cable television segment during the quarter, which was a decrease of 13%. Cable TV advertising revenue was down 13.3%. Delivery erosion continued down 29% in total day P25-54, resulting in a rate decrease impact of approximately $4.7 million, which was partially offset by slightly higher volume and sponsorships. Cable TV affiliate revenue was down by 12.8% with contractual rate increases of approximately $700,000 being more than offset by approximately $3.5 million in net subscriber revenue churn. Churn is trending at about 11% per annum. Cable…

Alfred Liggins

Operator

Thank you very much, Peter. Operator, could you open it up for questions, please?

Operator

Operator

Alfred Liggins

Operator

Thank you very much, operator, and thank you all for joining our Q3 conference call. Please feel free to reach out to Peter or I off-line if you have any additional questions that you forgot to ask or didn’t get a chance to ask. We look forward to talking to you next quarter.

Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, that does conclude your conference for today. Thank you for your participation and for using AT&T Teleconference. You may now disconnect.