UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 20-F

o		REGISTRATION STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) OR (g) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

OR

þ		ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 or 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2009

OR

o		TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

OR

o		SHELL COMPANY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of event requiring this shell company report

Securities registered or to be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:
None.

Securities for which there is a reporting obligation pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Act:
None.

The number of outstanding shares of each of the issuer’s classes of capital or common stock as of December 31, 2009 was:

111,529,976,540 A Shares
51,580,618,803 B Shares
82,060,017,146 L Shares
82,060,017,146 D Shares

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes þ No o

If this report is an annual or transition report, indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Yes o No þ

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes þ No o

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). o Yes o No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, or a non-accelerated filer. See definition of “accelerated filer and large accelerated filer” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):

Large accelerated filer þ		Accelerated filer o		Non-accelerated filer o

Indicate by check mark which basis of accounting the registrant has used to prepare the financial statements included in this filing:

U.S. GAAP o		International Financial Reporting Standards as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board o		Other þ

If “Other” has been checked in response to the previous question, indicate by check mark which financial statement item the registrant has elected to follow.

Item 17 o Item 18 þ

If this is an annual report, indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes o No þ

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I
Item 1. Identity of Directors, Senior Management and Advisers			3
Item 2. Offer Statistics and Expected Timetable			3
Item 3. Key Information			3
Selected Financial Data			3
Dividends			6
Exchange Rate Information			7
Risk Factors			8
Risk Factors Related to Mexico			8
Forward-Looking Statements			18
Item 4. Information on the Company			19
History and Development of the Company			19
Capital Expenditures			20
Business Overview			21
Item 5. Operating and Financial Review and Prospects			62
Preparation of Financial Statements			62
Results of Operations			63
Item 6. Directors, Senior Management and Employees			92
Item 7. Major Stockholders and Related Party Transactions			104
The Major Stockholders			104
Related Party Transactions			105
Item 8. Financial Information			109
Item 9. The Offer and Listing			109
Trading History of CPOs and GDSs			109
Trading on the Mexican Stock Exchange			110
Item 10. Additional Information			114
Mexican Securities Market Law			114
Bylaws			116
Enforceability of Civil Liabilities			126
Material Contracts			126
Legal Proceedings			127
Exchange Controls			128
Taxation			128
Documents on Display			133
Item 11. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk			133
Item 12. Description of Securities Other than Equity Securities			138
Part II
Item 13. Defaults, Dividend Arrearages and Delinquencies			138
Item 14. Material Modifications to the Rights of Security Holders and Use of Proceeds			138
Item 15. Controls and Procedures			138
Item 16.A. Audit Committee Financial Expert			139
Item 16.B. Code of Ethics			139
Item 16.C. Principal Accountant Fees and Services			139
Item 16.D. Exemptions from the Listing Standards for Audit Committees			140
Item 16.E. Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers			140
Item 16.G. Corporate Governance			142
Part III
Item 17. Financial Statements			144
Item 18. Financial Statements			144
Item 19. Exhibits			144
Exhibit 2.15
Exhibit 4.19
Exhibit 8.1
Exhibit 12.1
Exhibit 12.2
Exhibit 13.1
Exhibit 13.2
Exhibit 23.1

We publish our financial statements in accordance with Mexican Financial Reporting Standards ( Normas de Información Financiera ), or Mexican FRS, which differ in some significant respects from generally accepted accounting principles in the United States, or U.S. GAAP, and accounting procedures adopted in other countries.

Unless otherwise indicated, (i) information included in this annual report is as of December 31, 2009 and (ii) references to “Ps.” or “Pesos” in this annual report are to Mexican Pesos and references to “Dollars,” “U.S. Dollars,” “U.S. dollars,” “$,” or “U.S.$” are to United States dollars.

In this Annual Report, “we,” “us,” “our” or “Company” refer to Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. and, where the context requires, its consolidated entities. “Group” refers to Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. and its consolidated entities.

In 2007, we changed the names of two of our segments — “Sky Mexico” to “Sky”, because we began operations in Central America and the Dominican Republic, and “Cable Television” to “Cable and Telecom” due to the consolidation of Bestel, a telecommunications company, into this segment.

Effective December 2007, we began consolidating Letseb, S.A. de C.V. and its subsidiaries and Bestel USA, Inc., collectively Bestel, in accordance with Mexican FRS; in June 2008, we began consolidating Cablemás, S.A. de C.V. and its subsidiaries, collectively Cablemás, in accordance with Mexican FRS; and in October 2009, we began consolidating Televisión Internacional, S.A. de C.V. and its subsidiaries, collectively TVI, in accordance with Mexican FRS. Bestel, Cablemás and TVI are under the “Cable and Telecom” segment.

Beginning on September 30, 2008, we reported the “Publishing Distribution” segment under the “Other Businesses” segment since this operation was no longer significant to our consolidated financial statements taken as a whole. We have restated our segment results for the prior periods to reflect this change in segment reporting.

Notes to Selected Consolidated Financial Information:

Dividends

Decisions regarding the payment and amount of dividends are subject to approval by holders of a majority of the A Shares and B Shares voting together, generally, but not necessarily, on the recommendation of the Board of Directors, as well as a majority of the A Shares voting separately. Emilio Azcárraga Jean indirectly controls the voting of the majority of the A Shares and, as a result of such control, both the amount and the payment of dividends require his affirmative vote. See “Major Stockholders and Related Party Transactions — The Major Stockholders”. The amounts in this section are presented in nominal historical figures and therefore have not been restated in constant currency units due to a change in Mexican FRS whereby beginning on January 1, 2008 we discontinued recognizing the effects of inflation on our results. On March 25, 2004, our Board of Directors approved a dividend policy under which we currently intend to pay an annual regular dividend of Ps.0.35 per CPO. Also, on May 21, 2004, the Company’s Board of Directors approved a Ps.3,850.0 million cash distribution to stockholders, equivalent to Ps.1.219 per CPO, which included the annual regular dividend of Ps.0.35 per CPO, that is the dividend corresponding to the Series A and L shares and the cumulative preferred dividend corresponding to the Series D shares. On February 22, 2005, our Board of Directors approved a cash distribution to stockholders, equivalent to Ps.1.35 per CPO, equivalent to approximately Ps.4,250.0 million. On April 29, 2005, at a general stockholders’ meeting, our stockholders approved the payment of an extraordinary dividend of Ps.1.00 per CPO, which is in addition to our ordinary dividend of

Ps.0.35 per CPO, for a total dividend of Ps.1.35 per CPO. On April 28, 2006 at a general stockholders’ meeting, our stockholders approved a cash distribution to stockholders for up to Ps.1,104 million, equivalent to Ps.0.00299145 per share, or Ps.0.35 per CPO. On April 27, 2007, at a general stockholders’ meeting, our stockholders approved a cash distribution to stockholders for up to Ps.4,401 million, which includes the payment of an extraordinary dividend of Ps.1.10 per CPO, which is in addition to our ordinary dividend of Ps.0.35 per CPO, for a total dividend of Ps.1.45 per CPO, equivalent to Ps.0.01239316239 per share. On April 30, 2008, at a general stockholders’ meeting, our stockholders approved a cash distribution to stockholders for up to Ps.2,276.3 million, which includes the payment of an extraordinary dividend of Ps.0.40 per CPO, which is in addition to our ordinary dividend of Ps.0.35 per CPO, for a total dividend of Ps.0.75 per CPO, equivalent to Ps.0.00641025641 per share. On April 30, 2009, at a general stockholders’ meeting, our stockholders approved a cash distribution to stockholders of up to Ps.5,204.6 million, which includes the payment of an extraordinary dividend of Ps.1.40 per CPO, which is in addition to our ordinary dividend of Ps.0.35 per CPO, for a total dividend of Ps.1.75 per CPO, equivalent to Ps.0.014957264957 per share. In addition to the dividend payment approved by our stockholders on April 30, 2009, and based on the proposal by our Board of Directors, on December 10, 2009, at a general stockholders’ meeting, our stockholders approved a cash distribution to stockholders for up to Ps.4.0 billion, which includes the payment of an extraordinary dividend of Ps.1.0 per CPO, which is in addition to our ordinary dividend of Ps.0.35 per CPO, for a total dividend of Ps.1.35 per CPO, equivalent to Ps.0.011538461538 per share. The dividend payment approved on December 10, 2009 would have generally been paid in April 2010. We do not expect payment of any additional dividends during 2010. All of the recommendations of the Board of Directors related to the payment and amount of dividends were voted and approved at the applicable general stockholders’ meetings. The agreements related to some of our outstanding indebtedness contain covenants that restrict, among other things, the payment of dividends, under certain conditions.

Exchange Rate Information

Since 1991, Mexico has had a free market for foreign exchange and, since 1994, the Mexican government has allowed the Peso to float freely against the U.S. Dollar. There can be no assurance that the government will maintain its current policies with regard to the Peso or that the Peso will not depreciate or appreciate significantly in the future.

The following table sets forth, for the periods indicated, the high, low, average and period end Mexican Official FIX Rate, or FIX Rate, published by the Mexican Central Bank, expressed in Pesos per U.S. Dollar. The rates have not been restated in constant currency units and therefore represent nominal historical figures.

The above rates may differ from the actual rates used in the preparation of the financial statements and the other financial information appearing in this Form 20-F.

In the past, the Mexican economy has had balance of payment deficits and decreases in foreign exchange reserves. While the Mexican government does not currently restrict the ability of Mexican or foreign persons or entities to convert Pesos to U.S. Dollars, we cannot assure you that the Mexican government will not institute restrictive exchange control policies in the future, as has occurred from time to time in the past. To the extent that the Mexican government institutes restrictive exchange control policies in the future, our ability to transfer or to convert Pesos into U.S. Dollars and other currencies for the purpose of making timely payments of interest and principal of indebtedness, as well as to obtain foreign programming and other goods, would be adversely affected. See “Key Information — Risk Factors — Risk Factors Related to Mexico — Currency Fluctuations or the Devaluation and Depreciation of the Peso Could Limit the Ability of Our Company and Others to Convert Pesos into U.S. Dollars or Other Currencies, Which Could Adversely Affect Our Business, Financial Condition or Results of Operations”.

On June 17, 2010 the FIX Rate was Ps. 12.5925 per U.S.$1.00.

Risk Factors

The following is a discussion of risks associated with our company and an investment in our securities. Some of the risks of investing in our securities are general risks associated with doing business in Mexico. Other risks are specific to our business. The discussion below contains information, among other things, about the Mexican government and the Mexican economy obtained from official statements of the Mexican government as well as other public sources. We have not independently verified this information. Any of the following risks, if they actually occur, could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations or the price of our securities.

Risk Factors Related to Mexico

Economic and Political Developments in Mexico May Adversely Affect Our Business

Most of our operations and assets are located in Mexico. As a result, our financial condition, results of operations and business may be affected by the general condition of the Mexican economy, the devaluation of the Peso as compared to the U.S. Dollar, Mexican inflation, interest rates, regulation, taxation, social instability and other political, social and economic developments in or affecting Mexico over which we have no control.

Mexico Has Experienced and is Currently Experiencing Adverse Economic Conditions, Which Could Have a Negative Impact on Our Results of Operations and Financial Condition

Mexico has historically experienced uneven periods of economic growth. Mexican gross domestic product, or GDP, increased 3.3% and 1.5% in 2007 and 2008, respectively, and decreased by 6.5% in 2009. Mexican GDP growth fell short of Mexican government estimates in 2009; however, according to Mexican government estimates, Mexican GDP is expected to increase by approximately 4.0% in 2010. We cannot assure you that these estimates will prove to be accurate.

Mexico has been adversely affected by the global economic crisis that started in the summer of 2007. The country’s main economic indicators have been negatively affected, including a rise in unemployment, decline of interest rates, higher inflation and a devaluation of the Peso against the U.S. Dollar. This current global economic downturn and/or any future economic downturn, including downturns in the United States and Europe, could affect our financial condition and results of operations. We cannot predict what impact this crisis will have. For example, demand for advertising may decrease both because consumers may reduce expenditures for our advertisers’ products and because advertisers may reduce advertising expenditures and demand for publications, cable television, direct-to-home, or DTH satellite services, pay-per-view programming, telecommunications services and other services and products may decrease because consumers may find it difficult to pay for these services and products.

Developments in Other Emerging Market Countries or in the U.S. May Adversely Affect the Mexican Economy, the Market Value of Our Securities and Our Results of Operations

The market value of securities of Mexican companies, the economic and political situation in Mexico and our financial condition and results of operations are, to varying degrees, affected by economic and market conditions in other emerging market countries and in the United States. Although economic conditions in other emerging market countries and in the United States may differ significantly from economic conditions in Mexico, investors’ reactions to developments in any of these other countries may have an adverse effect on the market value or trading price of securities of Mexican issuers, including our securities, or on our business. In recent years, for example, prices of Mexican debt securities dropped substantially as a result of developments in Russia, Asia, Brazil and the U.S.

Our operations, including the demand for our products or services, and the price of our securities, have also historically been adversely affected by increases in interest rates in the United States and elsewhere. Economic downturns in the United States often have a significant adverse effect on the Mexican economy and other economies globally, which in turn, could affect our financial condition and results of operations.

Our profitability is affected by numerous factors, including changes in viewing preferences, priorities of advertisers and reductions in advertisers’ budgets. Historically, advertising in most forms of media has correlated positively with the general condition of the economy and thus, is subject to the risks that arise from adverse changes in domestic and global economic conditions, consumer confidence and spending. The demand for our products and services in Mexico, the U.S. and in the other countries in which we operate may be adversely affected by the tightening of credit markets and economic downturns. As a global media company, we depend on the demand from customers in Mexico, the U.S. and the other countries in which we operate, and reduced consumer spending that falls short of our projections could adversely impact our revenues and profitability. Although Mexico, the U.S. and other governments have taken steps to increase liquidity in the financial markets, there can be no assurance that such measures will improve the overall business environment in which we operate and we cannot predict the severity or duration of the economic downturn or the impact the economic downturn could have on our results of operations and financial condition.

The Ongoing Uncertainty in Global Financial Markets Could Adversely Affect Our Financing Costs and Exposure to Our Customers and Counterparties

The global financial markets continue to be uncertain, and many companies have limited access to funding. This risk has been exacerbated by concerns over the levels of public debt of, and the weakness of the economies in, Italy, the Republic of Ireland, Greece, Portugal, and Spain, in particular. It is uncertain how long the effects of the global financial markets will persist and how much impact this will have on the global economy in general, or the economies in which we operate, in particular, and whether slowing economic growth in any such countries could result in decreased consumer spending affecting our products and services. If access to credit tightens further and borrowing costs rise, our borrowing costs could be adversely affected. Difficult financial markets may also adversely affect some of our customers. In addition, we enter into derivative transactions with large financial institutions, including contracts to hedge our exposure to interest rates and foreign exchange, and we could be affected by severe financial difficulties faced by our counterparties.

Currency Fluctuations or the Devaluation and Depreciation of the Peso Could Limit the Ability of Our Company and Others to Convert Pesos into U.S. Dollars or Other Currencies, Which Could Adversely Affect Our Business, Financial Condition or Results of Operations

A significant portion of our indebtedness and a significant amount of our costs are U.S. Dollar-denominated, while our revenues are primarily Peso-denominated. As a result, decreases in the value of the Peso against the U.S. Dollar could cause us to incur foreign exchange losses, which would reduce our net income.

Severe devaluation or depreciation of the Peso may also result in governmental intervention, or disruption of international foreign exchange markets. This may limit our ability to transfer or convert Pesos into U.S. Dollars and other currencies for the purpose of making timely payments of interest and principal on our indebtedness and adversely affect our ability to obtain foreign programming and other imported goods. The Mexican economy has suffered current account balance payment of deficits and shortages in foreign exchange reserves in the past. While the Mexican government does not currently restrict, and for more than 15 years has not restricted, the right or ability of Mexican or foreign persons or entities to convert Pesos into U.S. Dollars or to transfer other currencies outside of Mexico, there can be no assurance that the Mexican government will not institute restrictive exchange control policies in the future. To the extent that the Mexican government institutes restrictive exchange control policies in the future, our ability to transfer or convert Pesos into U.S. Dollars or other currencies for the purpose of making timely payments of interest and principal on indebtedness, including the notes, as well as to obtain imported goods would be adversely affected. Devaluation or depreciation of the Peso against the U.S. Dollar or other currencies may also adversely affect U.S. Dollar or other currency prices for our debt securities or the cost of imported goods.

High Inflation Rates in Mexico May Decrease Demand for Our Services While Increasing Our Costs

Mexico historically has experienced high levels of inflation, although the rates have been lower in recent years. The annual rate of inflation, as measured by changes in the Mexican National Consumer Price Index, or NCPI, was 3.8% in 2007, 6.5% in 2008, 3.6% in 2009, and is expected to be 5.2% in 2010. An adverse change in the Mexican economy may have a negative impact on price stability and result in higher inflation than its main trading partners, including the U.S. High inflation rates can adversely affect our business and results of operations in the following ways:

	•		inflation can adversely affect consumer purchasing power, thereby adversely affecting consumer and advertiser demand for our services and products; and
	•		to the extent inflation exceeds our price increases, our prices and revenues will be adversely affected in “real” terms.

High Interest Rates in Mexico Could Increase Our Financing Costs

Mexico historically has had, and may continue to have, high real and nominal interest rates. The interest rates on 28-day Mexican government treasury securities averaged 7.2%, 7.7%, and 5.5% for 2007, 2008, and 2009, respectively. High interest rates in Mexico could increase our financing costs and thereby impair our financial condition, results of operations and cash flow.

Political Events in Mexico Could Affect Mexican Economic Policy and Our Business, Financial Condition and Results of Operations

The Mexican Congress is not controlled by any specific political party. Therefore, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa and his party, the Partido Acción Nacional , or the National Action Party, have faced opposition in Congress during the first three and a half years of his term.

Changes in laws, public policies and government programs may occur in the future. Such changes may have a material adverse effect on the Mexican economic and political situation, which in turn, may adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

In July 2009, new members were elected to the Cámara de Diputados , or the Chamber of Representatives, local Congress of some states, and Governors of six states, among other offices. As a result of these elections, the Partido Revolucionario Institucional or PRI, acquired a significant majority in the Chamber of Representatives. The lack of party alignment between the Chamber of Representatives and the President could result in deadlock and prevent the timely implementation of political and economic reforms, which in turn could have a material adverse effect on Mexican economic policy. It is also possible that political uncertainty may adversely affect Mexico’s economic situation. The new members of Congress have focused on important legal reforms, which have not been and may not be approved, including labor reforms. See “— Existing Mexican Laws and Regulations or Changes Thereto or the Imposition of New Ones May Negatively Affect Our Operations and Revenue”. The effects on the social and political situation in Mexico could adversely affect the Mexican economy, including the stability of its currency. We cannot ascertain, at this time, how any material adverse effect on Mexican economic policy, Mexico’s economic situation, the stability of Mexico’s currency or market conditions may affect our business or the prices for our securities.

Mexican Antitrust Laws May Limit Our Ability to Expand Through Acquisitions or Joint Ventures

Mexico’s Ley Federal de Competencia Económica , or Mexico’s Federal Antitrust Law, and related regulations may affect some of our activities, including our ability to introduce new products and services, enter into new or complementary businesses or joint ventures and complete acquisitions. See “Information on the Company — Business Overview — Investments — Alvafig”.

In addition, Mexico’s Federal Antitrust Law and related regulations or conditions imposed by the Comisión Federal de Competencia , CFC, or Mexican Antitrust Commission, may adversely affect our ability to determine the rates we charge for our services and products or the manner in which we provide our products or services. Approval of the Mexican Antitrust Commission is required for us to acquire certain businesses or enter into certain joint ventures. There can be no assurance that in the future the Mexican Antitrust Commission will authorize certain acquisitions or joint ventures related to our businesses, the denial of which may adversely affect our business strategy, financial condition and results of operations.

Existing Mexican Laws and Regulations or Changes Thereto or the Imposition of New Ones May Negatively Affect Our Operations and Revenue

Existing laws and regulations, including among others, tax laws, could be amended, the manner in which laws and regulations are enforced or interpreted could change, and new laws or regulations could be adopted. Such changes could materially adversely affect our operations and our revenue.

Certain amendments to the existing Ley Federal de Radio y Televisión , or Radio and Television Law, and the Ley Federal de Telecomunicaciones , or Telecommunications Law, have been enacted. In May 2006, several members of the Senate of the Mexican Federal Congress filed a complaint before the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico, seeking a declaration that such amendments were unconstitutional and therefore null and void. This complaint was resolved by the Supreme Court of Justice on June 5, 2007, declaring several provisions of the amendments to the Radio and Television Law and to the Telecommunications Law unconstitutional and therefore null and void. Among the provisions declared as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Justice are the ones referred to in former Article 28 of the Radio and Television Law, pursuant to which holders of concessions had the ability to request authorization to provide additional telecommunications services within the same spectrum covered by a current concession without having to participate in a public bid to offer such services pursuant to a concession and Article 16 of the Radio and Television Law, pursuant to which concessions were granted for a fixed term of 20 years having the possibility to renew such concessions by obtaining from the Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes , or SCT, a certification of compliance with their obligations under the concession. As a result of the Supreme Court of Justice’s ruling, once the transition to digital television and digital radio broadcasting is completed, if we want to provide additional telecommunications services within the same spectrum granted for digital television or digital radio broadcasting, respectively, we will have to follow the provisions of Article 24 of the Telecommunications Law to obtain the concession therefor. Also, there is uncertainty as to how radio and television concessions will be renewed in the future, since the Supreme Court of Justice’s ruling has resulted in requiring the renewal of the concessions to be subject to a public bid process, with a right of preference over other participating bidders given to the incumbent concessionaire. Additionally, some members of the Mexican Federal Congress have expressed their intent to propose a new Radio and Television Law, which could affect, among other things, the framework for granting or renewing concessions.

In 2007, the Mexican Federal Congress published an amendment to the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States, or Mexican Constitution, pursuant to which, among other things, the Federal Electoral Institute ( Instituto Federal Electoral , or IFE) has, during certain periods, the exclusive right to manage and use the Official Television Broadcast Time and the Official Radio Broadcast Time (jointly referred to in this annual report as Official Broadcast Time). For a description of Official Television Broadcast Time and Official Radio Broadcast Time, see “Information on the Company — Business Overview — Business Strategy — Maintaining our Leading Position in the Mexican Television Market — Advertising Sales Plan” and “Information on the Company — Business Overview — Other Businesses — Radio Stations”. The IFE has the exclusive right to use the Official Broadcast Time for its own purposes and for the use of political parties in Mexico (as provided in the Mexican Constitution) for self promotion and, when applicable, to promote their electoral campaigns during election day, pre-campaign and campaign periods (referred to in this annual report as the Constitutional Amendment).

The IFE and the political parties must comply with certain requirements included in the Constitutional Amendment for the use of Official Broadcast Time. During federal electoral periods, the IFE will be granted, per the Constitutional Amendment, 48 minutes per day in each radio station and television channel, to be used during pre-campaign periods in two and up to three minutes per broadcast hour in each radio station and television channel, of which all the political parties will be jointly entitled, to use one minute per broadcast hour. During campaign periods, at least 85% of the 48 minutes per day shall be allocated among the political parties, and the remaining 15% may be used by the IFE for its own purposes. During non-electoral periods, the IFE will be assigned with up to 12% of the Official Broadcast Time, half of which shall be allocated among the political parties. In the event that local elections are held simultaneously with federal elections, the broadcast time granted to the IFE shall be used for the federal and the local elections. During any other local electoral periods, the allocation of broadcast time will be made pursuant to the criteria established by the Constitutional Amendment and as such criteria is reflected in applicable law.

In addition to the foregoing, pursuant to the Constitutional Amendment political parties are forbidden to purchase or acquire advertising time directly or through third parties, from radio or television stations; likewise, third parties shall not acquire advertising time from radio or television stations for the broadcasting of advertisements which may influence the electoral preferences of Mexican citizens, nor in favor or against political parties or candidates to offices elected by popular vote.

We believe we have been operating our business in compliance with the provisions of the Constitutional Amendment; however, we have filed legal actions contesting certain provisions of such Constitutional Amendment.

At this time, the Constitutional Amendment has not had an impact on the results of our radio and television businesses, however we are unable to predict what impact, if any, the Constitutional Amendment may have on our operating results in the future. We cannot predict the outcome of the legal actions brought by the Company against the Constitutional Amendment. A decrease in paid advertising of the nature described above could lead to a decrease in our television or radio revenues.

Article 15-A of the Ley del Seguro Social , Social Security Law, could materially adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations. Such Article 15-A, amended in July 2009, provides that a company that obtains third party personnel services from personnel services’ providers and which receives such personnel services on any of the company’s premises is jointly bound to comply with the obligations related to social security that have to be fulfilled by such personnel services’ providers for the benefit of their respective employees. Such Article 15-A, as amended, also establishes the obligation that the Company sends a list to the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social , Social Security Mexican Institute, of all agreements entered into with personnel services’ providers.

In October 2009, the Mexican Congress approved a tax bill that became effective as of January 1, 2010. The approved tax bill amends and provides for additional changes to several provisions contained within the Mexican tax laws related to income tax, value added tax and excise tax. The corporate income tax rate was increased from 28% to 30% for the years 2010 through 2012 and will be reduced to 29% and 28% in 2013 and 2014, respectively. New rules for the tax consolidation regime were approved. The deferred income tax benefit derived from tax consolidation of a parent company and its subsidiaries is limited to a period of five years; therefore, the resulting deferred income tax will be paid starting in the sixth year following the fiscal year in which the deferred income tax benefit was received. The payment of this tax has to be made in installments: 25% in the first and second year, 20% in the third year, and 15% in the fourth and fifth year. This procedure applies for the deferred income tax resulting from the tax consolidation regime prior to and from 2010, so taxpayers have to pay in 2010 the first installment of the cumulative amount of the deferred tax benefits determined as of December 31, 2004. We believe that the new provisions for the tax consolidation regime have a retroactive application that impacts our results negatively and, thus, we are challenging the constitutionality of these new provisions. Effective January 1, 2010, revenues from telecommunications and pay television services (except access to Internet services, interconnection services between public networks of telecommunications and public telephone services) are subject to a 3% excise tax. Effective January 1, 2010, the excise tax rate on gaming (including bets and drawings) was increased from 20% to 30%. These changes and additional changes to the Mexican tax laws directly affect our consolidated results, our businesses including Pay Television Networks, Sky and Cable and Telecom segments, and the gaming business within our Other Businesses segment. The general value added tax rate was increased from 15% to 16%, and the rate on the border region was increased from 10% to 11%.

Differences Between Mexican FRS and U.S. GAAP May Have an Impact on the Presentation of Our Financial Information

A principal objective of the securities laws of the United States, Mexico and other countries is to promote full and fair disclosure of all material corporate information. However, there may be less publicly available information about foreign issuers of securities listed in the United States than is regularly published by or about domestic issuers of listed securities. In addition, our financial statements are prepared in accordance with Mexican FRS, which differ from U.S. GAAP and accounting procedures adopted in other countries in a number of respects. Thus, financial statements and reported earnings of Mexican companies may differ from those of companies in other countries with the same financial performance. We are required, however, to file an annual report on Form 20-F containing financial statements reconciled to U.S. GAAP. See Note 23 to our financial statements for a description of the principal differences between Mexican FRS and U.S. GAAP applicable to us. In addition, we do not publish U.S. GAAP information in our interim financial results.

Risk Factors Related to Our Major Stockholders

Emilio Azcárraga Jean has Substantial Influence Over Our Management and the Interests of Mr. Azcárraga Jean may Differ from Those of Other Stockholders

We have four classes of common stock: A Shares, B Shares, D Shares, and L Shares. Until June 17, 2009, approximately 45.6% of the outstanding A Shares, 2.7% of the outstanding B Shares, 2.8% of the outstanding D Shares and 2.8% of the outstanding L Shares of our company were held through a trust, or the Stockholder Trust, including shares in the form of CPOs. On June 17, 2009, the Stockholder Trust was terminated and the shares and CPOs which were formerly held through such trust, were delivered to the corresponding beneficiaries. The largest beneficiary of the Stockholder Trust was a trust for the benefit of Emilio Azcárraga Jean. Such trust currently holds 44.4% of the outstanding A shares, 0.1% of the outstanding B shares, 0.1% of the outstanding D shares and 0.1% of the outstanding L shares of the Company. As a result, Emilio Azcárraga Jean controlled until June 17, 2009, the voting of the shares held through the Stockholder Trust, and currently controls the vote of such shares through the Azcárraga Trust. The A Shares held through the Azcárraga Trust constitute a majority of the A Shares whose holders are entitled to vote because non-Mexican holders of CPOs and GDSs are not permitted by law to vote the underlying A Shares. Accordingly, and so long as non-Mexicans own more than a minimal number of A Shares, Emilio Azcárraga Jean will have the ability to direct the election of 11 out of 20 members of our Board, as well as prevent certain actions by the stockholders, including the timing and payment of dividends, if he so chooses. See “Major Stockholders and Related Party Transactions — The Major Stockholders”.

As Controlling Stockholder, Emilio Azcárraga Jean Will Have the Ability to Limit Our Ability to Raise Capital, Which Would Require Us to Seek Other Financing Arrangements

Emilio Azcárraga Jean has the voting power to prevent us from raising money through equity offerings. Mr. Azcárraga Jean has informed us that if we conduct a primary sale of our equity, he would consider exercising his pre-emptive rights to purchase a sufficient number of additional A Shares in order to maintain such power. In the event that Mr. Azcárraga Jean is unwilling to subscribe for additional shares and/or prevents us from raising money through equity offerings, we would need to raise money through a combination of debt or other forms of financing, which we may not obtain, or if so, possibly not on favorable terms.

Risk Factors Related to Our Business

The Operation of Our Business May Be Terminated or Interrupted if the Mexican Government Does Not Renew or Revokes Our Broadcast or Other Concessions

Under Mexican law, we need concessions from the SCT to broadcast our programming over our television and radio stations, cable and DTH satellite systems and to provide telephony services. In July 2004, in connection with the adoption of a release issued by the SCT for the transition to digital television, all of our television concessions were renewed until 2021. The expiration dates for the concessions for our radio stations range from 2015 to 2016 except for the concessions of 3 radio stations, which renewal applications were timely filed before the SCT but are still pending due to the Supreme Court’s ruling on the amendments to the Radio and Television Law. (See “— Risk Factors Related to Mexico — Existing Mexican Laws and Regulations or Changes Thereto or the Imposition of New Ones May Negatively Affect Our Operations and Revenue”). We are unable to predict when we will obtain the renewal to such concessions. The expiration dates of our Cable and Telecommunications concessions range from 2013 to 2038 and our DTH concessions expire in 2020 and 2026. The expiration dates for the concessions for our telephone services range from 2018 to 2026. Cablevisión obtained a telecommunications concession, which expires in 2029, and its concession to transmit an over-the-air UHF restricted television service through channel 46 which expires on November 17, 2010 (the “Channel 46 Concession”). We have filed for a renewal of the Channel 46 Concession and in February 2010 the SCT notified Cablevisión that it will not be renewed; however, we are contesting the resolution of the SCT. In the past, the SCT has typically renewed the concessions of those concessionaires that comply with the requisite procedures set forth for renewal under Mexican law and on the respective concession title; however, in connection with our television and radio concessions, there is uncertainty as to how radio and television concessions will be renewed in the future, since the Supreme Court ruling has resulted in requiring the renewal of the concessions to be subject to a public bid process, with a right of preference over other participating bidders given to the incumbent concessionaire.

Under Mexican law, we need a permit, or Gaming Permit, from the Secretaría de Gobernación , or Mexican Ministry of the Interior, to operate our gaming business. The operation of our gaming business may be terminated or interrupted if the Mexican Government does not renew or revokes our Gaming Permit. The Gaming Permit was granted to us on May 25, 2005 and the expiration date is May 24, 2030. We are unable to predict if we will obtain a renewal of the Gaming Permit.

See “— Risk Factors Related to Mexico — Existing Mexican Laws and Regulations or Changes Thereto or the Imposition of New Ones May Negatively Affect Our Operations and Revenue”.

We Face Competition in Each of Our Markets That We Expect Will Intensify

We face competition in all of our businesses, including television advertising and other media businesses, as well as our strategic investments and joint ventures. In particular, we face substantial competition from TV Azteca, S.A. de C.V., or TV Azteca. We expect increased competition from Univision Communications, Inc., or Univision, as a result of the divestiture of our equity interest in Univision and the termination of a certain participation agreement or the Participation Agreement by and among Televisa, Univision, certain principals of Univision, and Venevision, in connection with the acquisition of Univision by private equity investors. See “Information on the Company — Business Overview — Television — Television Industry in Mexico” and “Information on the Company — Business Overview — Television — Television Broadcasting”. In addition, the entertainment and communications industries in which we operate are changing rapidly because of evolving distribution technologies, including online and digital networks. Our principal competitors in the gaming industry are Corporación Interamericana de Entretenimiento, S.A.B. de C.V., or CIE, and Grupo Caliente S.A. de C.V., or Grupo Caliente.

The telecommunications industry in Mexico has become highly competitive and we face significant competition. Cable operators, who were already authorized to provide bidirectional data and internet broadband services and who have been recently authorized by the Mexican government to also provide voice services, including Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP services, pose a risk to us. As the cable operators’ telephony income may be seen as incremental revenue, the price reduction and the vast coverage may prevent us from growing.

On October 2, 2006, the Mexican federal government enacted a new set of regulations known as Convergence Regulations, or Acuerdo de Convergencia de Servicios Fijos de Telefonía Local y Televisión y/o Audio Restringidos que se Proporcionan a Través de Redes Públicas Alámbricas e Inalámbricas . The Convergence Regulations allow certain concessionaires of telecommunications services to provide other services not included in their original concessions. Cable television providers may be allowed to provide internet and telephone services if certain requirements and conditions are met. In addition, telephone operators, such as Teléfonos de México, S.A.B. de C.V. or Telmex, may be allowed to provide cable television services if certain requirements and conditions are met. We believe that we may face significant competition from new entrants providing telephony services or cable television services, including cable television providers and telephone operators. See “Information on the Company — Business Overview — Cable and Telecom”.

At the end of 2008, DISH, a competitor in the DTH market, launched its services in Mexico.

At the beginning of 2009, TV Azteca began offering HiTV, a television service which consists of the transmission of digital television channels through the technology known as Digital Terrestrial Television, or DTT,  in Mexico City and its metropolitan area using the radioelectric spectrum in the mirror concessions granted to them pursuant to the release issued by the SCT for the transition to digital television. HiTV currently offers approximately 20 channels and charges for the decoder box, a fact which we believe constitutes a pay television service. The SCT and the Mexican Federal Telecommunications Commission, or Cofetel, are currently reviewing the legality of this service since the mirror concessions should be used to replicate the analog channel signals. We are uncertain as to how this service may affect our pay-TV business in the event it is considered legal. In addition, the decoder box that TV Azteca is utilizing to allow viewers to access their HiTV channels also allows the viewers access to the Company’s digital over the air networks without the Company’s permission.

Our future success will be affected by these changes, which we cannot predict. Consolidation in the entertainment, telecommunications and broadcast industries could further intensify competitive pressures. As the pay television, or pay-TV, market in Mexico matures, we expect to face competition from an increasing number of sources, including emerging technologies that provide new services to pay-TV customers and require us to make significant capital expenditures in new technologies and exclusive content. Developments may limit our access to new distribution channels and exclusive content, may require us to make significant capital expenditures in order to have access to new digital and other distribution channels or may create additional competitive pressures on some or all of our businesses.

The Seasonal Nature of Our Business Affects Our Revenue and a Significant Reduction in Fourth Quarter Net Sales Could Impact Our Results of Operations

Our business reflects seasonal patterns of advertising expenditures, which is common in the television broadcast industry, as well as cyclical patterns in periodic events such as the World Cup, the Olympic Games and political elections. We typically recognize a disproportionately large percentage of our television broadcasting advertising net sales in the fourth quarter in connection with the holiday shopping season. For example, in 2007, 2008 and 2009 we recognized 31.9%, 31.3%, and 31.3% respectively, of our net sales in the fourth quarter of the year. Accordingly, a significant reduction in fourth quarter advertising revenue could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Current Litigation We Are Engaged In With Univision May Affect Our Exploitation of Certain Internet Rights in the United States

On January 22, 2009, the Company and Univision announced an amendment to the Program License Agreement (the “PLA”), between Televisa, S.A. de C.V. (“Televisa”), a subsidiary of the Company, and Univision. The amended PLA, which runs through 2017, includes a simplified royalty calculation and is expected to result in increased payments to the Company, as well as a provision for certain yearly minimum guaranteed advertising, with a value of U.S.$66.5 million for fiscal year 2009, to be provided by Univision, at no cost, for the promotion of the Group’s businesses commencing in 2009. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company cannot predict whether future royalty payments will in fact increase.

In connection with this amendment and in return for certain other consideration, Televisa and Univision agreed to dismiss certain claims that were pending in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (the “District Court Action”), with the exception of a counterclaim filed by Univision in October 2006, whereby it sought a judicial declaration that on or after December 19, 2006, pursuant to the PLA, Televisa may not transmit or permit others to transmit any television programming into the United States by means of the Internet (the “Univision Internet Counterclaim”).

The Univision Internet Counterclaim was tried in a non-jury trial before the Hon. Philip S. Gutierrez (the “Judge”) commencing on June 9, 2009. On July 17, 2009, the Judge issued a written decision following trial in favor of Univision. By judgment entered on August 3, 2009, the Judge held: “Under the 2001 PLA between Univision and Televisa, Televisa is prohibited from making Programs, as that term is defined in the PLA, available to viewers in the United States via the Internet.” Televisa filed a notice of appeal of the judgment on August 17, 2009 and filed its opening brief on February 12, 2010. Univision filed its opposition brief to Televisa’s appeal on March 17, 2010 and Televisa filed its reply brief on April 5, 2010. The Court will decide whether to schedule oral argument and when to render a decision. The Judge’s ruling does not grant Univision the right to distribute Televisa’s content over the Internet, and this decision has no effect on the Group’s current business as the Group does not derive any revenues from the transmission of video content over the Internet in the United States.

The Company cannot predict how the outcome of this litigation will affect the Group’s business relationship with Univision with respect to Internet distribution rights in the United States.

Televisa Does Not Maintain Complete Control Over the Operations of Innova

We own a 58.7% interest in Innova, our DTH joint venture in Mexico, Central America and the Dominican Republic. The balance of Innova’s equity is indirectly owned by The DIRECTV Group, Inc., or DIRECTV through its subsidiaries DTH (Mexico) Investment, LTD, DIRECTV Latin America Holdings, Inc., or DIRECTV Holdings, and DIRECTV Latin America LLC, or DTVLA. Although we hold a majority of Innova’s equity, DIRECTV has significant governance rights, including the right to block any transaction between us and Innova. Accordingly, we do not have complete control over the operations of Innova.

We Have Evaluated the Possibility of Potential Losses in Innova in Case of Business Interruption Due to the Loss of Transmission and Loss of the Use of Satellite Transponders, Which Would Adversely Affect Our Net Income

Media and telecom companies, including Innova, rely on satellite transmissions to conduct their day-to-day business. Any unforeseen and sudden loss of transmission or non-performance of the satellite for Innova can cause huge losses to Innova’s business. The unforeseen loss of transmission may be caused due to the satellite’s loss of the orbital slot or the reduction in the satellite’s functional life.

The size of the business interruption impact for Innova in the case of a satellite loss exceeds the insurance we have acquired to cover this risk. In order to reduce the possibility of financial consequences resulting from an unforeseen loss of transmission, Innova entered into an agreement to launch a backup satellite jointly with Sky Brasil Servicos Ltda., or Sky Brasil which was launched in the first quarter of 2010. We cannot predict the extent of losses to Innova in the case of current or new satellite loss or the effectiveness of any alternative strategy.

Risk Factors Related to Our Securities

Any Actions Stockholders May Wish to Bring Concerning Our Bylaws or the CPO Trust Must Be Brought in a Mexican Court

Our bylaws provide that you must bring any legal actions concerning our bylaws in courts located in Mexico City. The trust agreement governing the CPOs provides that you must bring any legal actions concerning the trust agreement in courts located in Mexico City. All parties to the trust agreement governing the CPOs, including the holders of CPOs, have agreed to submit these disputes only to Mexican courts.

Non-Mexicans May Not Hold A Shares, B Shares or D Shares Directly and Must Have Them Held in a Trust at All Times

Non-Mexicans may not directly own A Shares, B Shares or D Shares, but may hold them indirectly through a CPO trust, which will control the voting of the A Shares and B Shares. Under the terms of the CPO Trust, as of December 2008, a non-Mexican holder of CPOs or GDSs may instruct the CPO Trustee to request that we issue and deliver certificates representing each of the shares underlying its CPOs so that the CPO Trustee may sell, to a third party entitled to hold the shares, all of these shares and deliver to the holder any proceeds derived from the sale.

Non-Mexican Holders of Our Securities Forfeit Their Securities if They Invoke the Protection of Their Government

Pursuant to Mexican law, our bylaws provide that non-Mexican holders of CPOs and GDSs may not ask their government to interpose a claim against the Mexican government regarding their rights as stockholders. If non-Mexican holders of CPOs and GDSs violate this provision of our bylaws, they will automatically forfeit the A Shares, B Shares, L Shares and D Shares underlying their CPOs and GDSs to the Mexican government.

Non-Mexican Holders of Our Securities Have Limited Voting Rights

Non-Mexican holders of GDSs are not entitled to vote the A Shares, B Shares and D Shares underlying their securities. The L Shares underlying GDSs, the only series of our Shares that can be voted by non-Mexican holders of GDSs, have limited voting rights. These limited voting rights include the right to elect two directors and limited rights to vote on extraordinary corporate actions, including the delisting of the L Shares and other actions which are adverse to the holders of the L Shares. For a brief description of the circumstances under which holders of L Shares are entitled to vote, see “Additional Information — Bylaws — Voting Rights and Stockholders’ Meetings.”

Our Antitakeover Protections May Deter Potential Acquirors and May Depress Our Stock Price

Certain provisions of our bylaws could make it substantially more difficult for a third party to acquire control of us. These provisions in our bylaws may discourage certain types of transactions involving the acquisition of our securities. These provisions may also limit our stockholders’ ability to approve transactions that may be in their best interests and discourage transactions in which our stockholders might otherwise receive a premium for their Shares over the then current market price, and could possibly adversely affect the trading volume in our equity securities. As a result, these provisions may adversely affect the market price of our securities. Holders of our securities who acquire Shares in violation of these provisions will not be able to vote, or receive dividends, distributions or other rights in respect of these securities and would be obligated to pay us a penalty. For a description of these provisions, see “Additional Information — Bylaws — Antitakeover Protections.”

GDS Holders May Face Disadvantages When Attempting to Exercise Voting Rights as Compared to Other Holders of Our Securities

In situations where we request that The Bank of New York Mellon, the depositary, ask holders for voting instructions, holders may instruct the depositary to exercise their voting rights, if any, pertaining to the deposited securities underlying their GDSs. The depositary will attempt, to the extent practical, to arrange to deliver voting materials to these holders. We cannot assure holders of GDSs that they will receive the voting materials in time to ensure that they can instruct the depositary how to vote the deposited securities underlying their GDSs, or that the depositary will be able to forward those instructions and the appropriate proxy request to the CPO Trustee in a timely manner. For stockholders’ meetings, if the depositary does not receive voting instructions from holders of GDSs or does not forward such instructions and appropriate proxy request in a timely manner, if requested in writing from us, it will provide a proxy to a representative designated by us to exercise these voting rights. If no such written request is made by us, the depositary will not represent or vote, attempt to represent or vote any right that attaches to, or instruct the CPO Trustee to represent or vote, the shares underlying the CPOs in the relevant meeting and, as a result, the underlying shares will be voted in the manner described under “Additional Information — Bylaws — Voting Rights and Stockholders’ Meetings — Holders of CPOs.” For CPO Holders’ meetings, if the depositary does not timely receive instructions from a Mexican or non-Mexican holder of GDSs as to the exercise of voting rights relating to the underlying CPOs in the relevant CPO holders’ meeting, the depositary and the custodian will take such actions as are necessary to cause such CPOs to be counted for purposes of satisfying applicable quorum requirements and, unless we in our sole discretion have given prior written notice to the depositary and the custodian to the contrary, vote them in the same manner as the majority of the CPOs are voted at the relevant CPOs holders’ meeting.

This means that holders of GDSs may not be able to exercise their right to vote and there may be nothing they can do if the deposited securities underlying their GDSs are not voted as they request.

The Interests of Our GDS Holders Will Be Diluted if We Issue New Shares and These Holders Are Unable to Exercise Preemptive Rights for Cash

Under Mexican law and our bylaws, our stockholders have preemptive rights. This means that in the event that we issue new Shares for cash, our stockholders will have a right to subscribe the number of Shares of the same series necessary to maintain their existing ownership percentage in that series. U.S. holders of our GDSs cannot exercise their preemptive rights unless we register any newly issued Shares under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, or qualify for an exemption from registration. If U.S. holders of GDSs cannot exercise their preemptive rights, the interests of these holders will be diluted in the event that we issue new Shares for cash. We intend to evaluate at the time of any offering of preemptive rights the costs and potential liabilities associated with registering any additional Shares. We cannot assure you that we will register under the Securities Act any new Shares that we issue for cash. In addition, although the Deposit Agreement provides that the depositary may, after consultation with us, sell preemptive rights in Mexico or elsewhere outside the U.S. and distribute the proceeds to holders of GDSs, under current Mexican law these sales are not possible. See “Directors, Senior Management and Employees — Long-Term Retention Plan” and “Additional Information — Bylaws — Preemptive Rights.”

The Protections Afforded to Minority Stockholders in Mexico Are Different From Those in the U.S.

Under Mexican law, the protections afforded to minority stockholders are different from those in the U.S. In particular, the law concerning fiduciary duties of directors is not well developed, there is no procedure for class actions or stockholder derivative actions and there are different procedural requirements for bringing stockholder lawsuits. As a result, in practice, it may be more difficult for our minority stockholders to enforce their rights against us or our directors or major stockholders than it would be for stockholders of a U.S. company.

The Ley del Mercado de Valores , or the Mexican Securities Market Law, provides additional protection to minority stockholders, such as (i) providing stockholders of a public company representing 5% or more of the capital stock of the public company, an action for liability against the members and secretary of the Board and relevant management of the public company, and (ii) establishing additional responsibilities on the audit committee in all issues that have or may have an effect on minority stockholders and their interests in an issuer or its operations.

It May Be Difficult to Enforce Civil Liabilities Against Us or Our Directors, Executive Officers and Controlling Persons

We are organized under the laws of Mexico. Substantially all of our directors, executive officers and controlling persons reside outside the U.S., all or a significant portion of the assets of our directors, executive officers and controlling persons, and substantially all of our assets, are located outside of the U.S., and some of the parties named in this annual report also reside outside of the U.S. As a result, it may be difficult for you to effect service of process within the United States upon these persons or to enforce against them or us in U.S. courts judgments predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the federal securities laws of the U.S. We have been advised by our Mexican counsel, Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes, S.C., that there is doubt as to the enforceability, in original actions in Mexican courts, of liabilities predicated solely on U.S. federal securities laws and as to the enforceability in Mexican courts of judgments of U.S. courts obtained in actions predicated upon the civil liability provisions of U.S. federal securities laws.

Forward-Looking Statements

This annual report and the documents incorporated by reference into this annual report contain forward-looking statements. We may from time to time make forward-looking statements in periodic reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, on Form 6-K, in annual reports to stockholders, in prospectuses, press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by our officers, directors or employees to analysts, institutional investors, representatives of the media and others. Examples of these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to:

	•		projections of operating revenues, net income (loss), net income (loss) per CPO/share, capital expenditures, dividends, capital structure or other financial items or ratios;
	•		statements of our plans, objectives or goals, including those relating to anticipated trends, competition, regulation and rates;
	•		our current and future plans regarding our online and wireless content division, Televisa Interactive Media, or TIM;
	•		statements concerning our current and future plans regarding our investment in the Spanish television channel Gestora de Inversiones Audiovisuales La Sexta, S.A., or La Sexta;

	•		statements concerning our current and future plans regarding our investment in Grupo de Telecomunicaciones de Alta Capacidad, S.A.P.I. de C.V., or GTAC;
	•		statements concerning our current and future plans regarding our gaming business;
	•		statements concerning our current and future plans regarding the fixed telephony service provided by Empresas Cablevisión, S.A.B. de C.V., or Cablevisión;
	•		statements concerning our transactions with and/or litigation involving Univision;
	•		statements concerning our series of transactions with DIRECTV, and News Corporation, or News Corp.;
	•		statements concerning our transactions with NBC Universal’s Telemundo Communications Group, or Telemundo;
	•		statements concerning our plans to build and launch a new transponder satellite;
	•		statements about our future economic performance or statements concerning general economic, political or social conditions in the United Mexican States, or Mexico, or other countries in which we operate or have investments; and
	•		statements or assumptions underlying these statements.

Words such as “believe”, “anticipate”, “plan”, “expect”, “intend”, “target”, “estimate”, “project”, “predict”, “forecast”, “guideline”, “may”, “should” and similar words and expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, but are not the exclusive means of identifying these statements.

Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. We caution you that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the plans, objectives, expectations, estimates and intentions expressed in these forward-looking statements. These factors, some of which are discussed under “Key Information — Risk Factors”, include economic and political conditions and government policies in Mexico or elsewhere, inflation rates, exchange rates, regulatory developments, customer demand and competition. We caution you that the foregoing list of factors is not exclusive and that other risks and uncertainties may cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements. You should evaluate any statements made by us in light of these important factors.

Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and we do not undertake any obligation to update them in light of new information, future developments or other factors.

Item 4. Information on the Company

History and Development of the Company

Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. is a sociedad anónima bursátil, or limited liability stock corporation, which was organized under the laws of Mexico in accordance with the Ley General de Sociedades Mercantiles, or Mexican Companies Law. Grupo Televisa was incorporated under Public Deed Number 30,200, dated December 19, 1990, granted before Notary Public Number 73 of Mexico City, and registered with the Public Registry of Commerce in Mexico City on Commercial Page (folio mercantil) Number 142,164. Pursuant to the terms of our estatutos sociales, or bylaws, our corporate existence continues through 2105. Our principal executive offices are located at Avenida Vasco de Quiroga, No. 2000, Colonia Santa Fe, 01210 México, D.F., México. Our telephone number at that address is (52) (55) 5261-2000.

Capital Expenditures

The table below sets forth our actual capital expenditures, permanent investments and acquisitions for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009 and our projected capital expenditures for the year ended December 31, 2010. For a discussion of how we intend to fund our projected capital expenditures, investments and acquisitions for 2010, as well as a more detailed description of our capital expenditures, investments and acquisitions in prior years, see “Operating and Financial Review and Prospects — Results of Operations — Liquidity, Foreign Exchange and Capital Resources — Liquidity” and “Operating and Financial Review and Prospects — Results of Operations — Liquidity, Foreign Exchange and Capital Resources — Capital Expenditures, Acquisitions and Investments, Distributions and Other Sources of Liquidity.”

In 2007, 2008 and 2009, we relied on a combination of operating revenues, borrowings and net proceeds from dispositions to fund our capital expenditures, acquisitions and investments. We expect to fund our capital expenditures in 2010, other than cash needs in connection with any potential investments and acquisitions, through a combination of cash from operations and cash on hand. We intend to finance our potential investments or acquisitions in 2010 through available cash from operations, cash on hand and/or borrowings. The amount of borrowings required to fund these cash needs in 2010 will depend upon the timing of cash payments from advertisers under our advertising sales plan.

Business Overview

Grupo Televisa, S.A.B., is the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world based on its market capitalization and a major participant in the international entertainment business. We operate broadcast channels in Mexico and complement our network coverage through affiliated stations throughout the country. As of December 31, 2009, our broadcast television channels had an average sign-on to sign-off audience share of 70.8%. We produce pay television channels with national and international feeds, which reach subscribers throughout Latin America, the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia Pacific. We export our programs and formats to television networks around the world. As of December 31, 2009, we had exported 65,449 hours of programming to approximately 57 countries.

We believe we are the most important Spanish-language magazine publisher in the world, as measured by circulation, with an annual circulation of approximately 153 million magazines publishing 178 titles in approximately 20 countries.

We own 58.7% of Sky, a DTH satellite television provider in Mexico, Central America and the Dominican Republic. We are also a shareholder in three Mexican cable companies, Cablevisión, Cablemás and TVI. We own 51% of Cablevision, 50% of TVI and 58.3% of Cablemás.

We also own Esmas.com, one of the leading digital entertainment web portals in Latin America, a gaming business which includes bingo parlors, a 50% stake in a radio company that as of December 31, 2009 reached 75% of the Mexican territory, a feature film production and distribution company, soccer teams and a stadium in Mexico.

We also own an unconsolidated equity stake in La Sexta, a free-to-air television channel in Spain, and in OCESA, one of the leading live entertainment companies in Mexico.

Business Strategy

We intend to leverage our position as the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world to continue expanding our business while maintaining profitability and financial discipline. We intend to do so by maintaining our leading position in the Mexican television market, by continuing to produce high quality programming and by improving our sales and marketing efforts while maintaining high operating margins. We have been able to withstand the economic downturn as well as the depreciation of the Mexican Peso as a result, in part, of our cost cutting plan, which we put into effect in the last quarter of 2008. For more information on our cost cutting plan see “Operating and Financial Review and Prospects.”

By leveraging all our business segments and capitalizing on their synergies to extract maximum value from our content, we also intend to continue expanding our pay-TV networks business, increasing our international programming sales worldwide and strengthening our position in the growing U.S.-Hispanic market. We also intend to continue developing and expanding Sky, our DTH platform, strengthen our position in the cable and telecommunications industry, continue developing our publishing business and become an important player in the gaming industry.

We intend to continue to expand our business by developing new business initiatives and/or through business acquisitions and investments in Mexico, the United States and elsewhere.

Maintaining Our Leading Position in the Mexican Television Market

Continuing to Produce High Quality Programming. We aim to continue producing the type of high quality television programming that has propelled many of our programs to the top of the national ratings and audience share in Mexico. In 2008 and 2009, our networks aired 69% and 68%, respectively, of the 200 most-watched television programs in Mexico, according to IBOPE Mexico. We have launched a number of initiatives in creative development, program scheduling and on-air promotion. These initiatives include improved production of our highly rated telenovelas, new comedy and game show formats and the development of reality shows and new series. We have improved our scheduling to be better aligned with viewer habits by demographic segment while improving viewer retention through more dynamic on-air graphics and pacing. We have enhanced tune-in promotion both in terms of creative content and strategic placement. In addition, we plan to continue expanding and leveraging our exclusive Spanish-language video library, exclusive rights to soccer games and other events, as well as cultural, musical and show business productions.

In April 2008, we began broadcasting more than 1,000 hours per year of Telemundo’s original programming on Channel 9. We currently and through December 2011, pay Telemundo a fixed license fee for the broadcast of Telemundo’s programming on our Channel 9 Network. Beginning January 2012, we will pay Telemundo a license fee based on a percentage of all revenues generated from sales related to Telemundo programming. In addition, since 2010 we distribute, via Sky and Cablevisión, a new pay television channel in Mexico produced by Telemundo principally featuring Telemundo branded content. See “— Television — Programming — Foreign-Produced Programming”. As a result of the strategic alliance agreement entered into with NBC Universal’s Telemundo, we distribute Telemundo content in Mexico on an exclusive basis across multiple platforms including broadcast television, pay television and our emerging digital platforms. In October 2008, we entered into license agreements to distribute Telemundo’s original content through digital and wireless platforms in Mexico. As part of the agreements, Telemundo provides Televisa Telemundo’s original content, including its highly popular telenovelas currently broadcast on Televisa’s Channel 9, on all of Televisa’s digital platforms including Esmas.com,. Moreover, Televisa also offers mobile wall papers, ring tones and text messaging services based on Telemundo branded content to mobile phone subscribers in Mexico through Televisa’s mobile business unit Esmas Móvil, the leading mobile premium content provider in Mexico. The agreements complement and are part of the strategic alliance to distribute Telemundo’s original content in Mexico across multiple platforms, including, broadcast TV, PayTV and emerging digital platforms.

Improving Our Sales and Marketing Efforts. Over the past few years we have improved our television broadcasting advertising sales strategy by: (i) introducing a cost per rating point basis pricing system; (ii) implementing differentiated pricing by quarter, by channel and by time of day; (iii) reorganizing our sales force into teams focusing on each of our divisions; (iv) emphasizing a compensation policy for salespeople that is performance-based, with variable commissions tied to year-end results for a larger portion of total compensation; and (v) continuing to provide our customers with increased opportunities for product integration.

Maintaining High Operating Segment Income Margins. Our television broadcasting operating segment income margin for 2008 and 2009 was 48.9% and 47.9%, respectively. We intend to continue maintaining high television broadcasting operating segment income margins by increasing revenues and controlling costs and expenses.

Advertising Sales Plan. Our sales force is organized into separate teams, each of which focuses on a particular segment of our business. We sell commercial time in two ways: upfront and scatter basis. Advertisers that elect the upfront option lock in prices for the upcoming year, regardless of future price changes. Advertisers that choose the upfront option make annual prepayments, with cash or short-term notes, and are charged the lowest rates for their commercial time, given the highest priority in schedule placement, and given a first option in advertising during special programs. Scatter advertisers, or advertisers who choose not to make upfront payments but rather advertise from time to time, risk both higher prices and lack of access to choice commercial time slots. We sell advertising to our customers on a cost per rating point basis, whereby our television advertisers are billed for actual minutes used, and the amount billed per minute is based on the price per rating point and actual ratings delivered. This pricing alternative allows an advertiser to purchase advertising time based on the actual ratings of the television programs during which its advertisements are aired. We do not have commitments with advertisers to achieve a certain rating upon broadcast and therefore do not provide any future price adjustments if a certain rating is not met. For a description of our advertising sales plan, see “Operating and Financial Review and Prospects — Results of Operations — Total Segment Results — Advertising Rates and Sales”.

We currently sell only a portion of our available television advertising time. We use a portion of our television advertising time to satisfy our legal obligation to the Mexican government to provide up to 18 minutes per day of our broadcast time between 6:00 a.m. and midnight for public service announcements and 30 minutes per day for public programming (referred to in this annual report as Official Television Broadcast Time), and our remaining available television advertising time to promote, among other things, our television products. We sold approximately 59%, 62%, and 57% of total available national advertising time on our networks during prime time broadcasts in 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively, and approximately 50%, 49%, and 47% of total available national advertising time during all time periods in 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively. See “Operating and Financial Review and Prospects — Results of Operations — Total Segment Results — Television Broadcasting”.

Continue Building Our Pay Television Platforms

DTH. We believe that Ku-band DTH satellite services offer an enhanced opportunity for expansion of pay television services into cable households seeking to upgrade reception of our broadcasting and in areas not currently serviced by operators of cable or multi-channel, multi-point distribution services. We own a 58.7% interest in Innova, or Sky, our joint venture with DIRECTV. Innova is a DTH company with services in Mexico, Central America and the Dominican Republic with approximately 1.96 million subscribers, of which 144,326 were commercial subscribers as of December 31, 2009.

Following the merger with PanAmSat, Intelsat, our primary satellite service provider, renamed the satellites PAS-9 and PAS-3R as IS-9 and IS-3R, respectively. Intelsat recently reported that IS-9 is estimated to have its end of life reduced to October, 2012, and that it anticipates a replacement satellite, IS-21, to start service in the fourth quarter of 2012.

In December 2007, Innova and Sky Brasil Servicos Ltda., or Sky Brasil, reached an agreement with Intelsat Corporation and Intelsat LLC, to build and launch a new 24-transponder satellite, IS-16, for which service will be dedicated to Sky and Sky Brasil over the satellite’s estimated 15-year life. The satellite will provide back up for both platforms, and will also double Sky’s current capacity. Innova plans to use this extra capacity for High Definition, or HD, and other value-added services. The satellite was manufactured by Orbital Sciences Corporation and was launched in the first quarter of 2010. For a description of our satellites, see “— Property, Plant and Equipment — Satellites”.

The key components of our DTH strategy include:

	•		offering high quality programming, including rights to our four over-the-air broadcast channels, exclusive broadcasts of sporting events, such as selected matches of the Mexican Soccer League and the Spanish Soccer League, including La Liga and La Copa del Rey, the NFL Sunday Ticket, NBA Pass, MLB Extra Innings, the NHL and the Golf Channel;
	•		capitalizing on our relationship with DIRECTV and local operators in terms of technology, distribution networks, infrastructure and cross-promotional opportunities;
	•		capitalizing on the low penetration of pay-TV services in Mexico;
	•		expanding our DTH services in Central America and the Caribbean;
	•		providing superior digital Ku-band DTH satellite services and emphasizing customer service quality; and
	•		continuing to leverage our strengths and capabilities to develop new business opportunities and expand through acquisitions.

Pay Television Networks. Through our 16 pay-TV brands and 31 national and international feeds, we reached more than 23 million subscribers throughout Latin America, the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia Pacific in 2009. Our pay-TV channels include, among others, three music, four movie, seven variety and entertainment channels, one recently launched 24 hour news channel, Foro TV and one recently launched sports channel, Televisa Deportes Network, or TDN, which was launched in July 2009 and offers 24-hour-a-day programming 365 days a year. TDN features more than eight hours a day of proprietary content, including exceptional editorial content, story coverage, commentary and transmission of national and international soccer tournaments, American football, basketball, baseball, golf, wrestling, boxing and extreme sports. The content is available in standard definition and includes the exclusive transmission and retransmission of certain matches of the Mexican first division soccer tournament, as well as additional matches broadcast simultaneously; the Spanish soccer cup, including exclusive transmission of two matches per week; Noticiero Televisa Deportes; the 2010 soccer World Cup; the UFC Ultimate Fighting Championship; and much more. This pay-TV sports channel resulted from a licensing agreement that Televisa has entered into with Barra Deportiva, S.A. de C.V., the new independent producer formed from the association of Televisa and Deportes y Medios Panamericana, S.A. de C.V. owned by Estadio W. We hold a 49% full voting stake in Barra Deportiva, S.A. de C.V. Through TuTV, our joint venture with Univision, we distribute five pay-TV channels within the United States. These channels, whose content includes film, music and lifestyle programming, reached more than 1.9 million households in 2009.

Cable. We are a shareholder in three Mexican cable companies, Cablevisión, Cablemás and TVI. With a subscriber base of over 632,061 cable television subscribers (all of which were digital subscribers), as of December 31, 2009 and over 1.9 million homes passed as of December 31, 2009, Cablevisión, the Mexico City cable system in which we own a 51% interest, is one of the most important cable television operators in Mexico. Cablevisión’s strategy aims to increase its subscriber base, average monthly revenues per subscriber and penetration rate by:

	•		continuing to offer high quality programming;
	•		continuing to upgrade its existing cable network into a broadband bidirectional network;
	•		maintaining its 100% digital service in order to stimulate new subscriptions, substantially reduce piracy and offer new value-added services;
	•		increasing the penetration of its high-speed and bidirectional internet access and other multimedia services as well as providing a platform to offer internet protocol, or IP, and telephony services;
	•		continuing the roll out of digital set-top boxes and the roll out, which began in the third quarter of 2005, of advanced digital set-top boxes which allow the transmission of high definition programming and recording capability; and
	•		continuing to leverage our strengths and capabilities to develop new business opportunities and expand through acquisitions.

Cablevisión has introduced a variety of new multimedia communications services over the past few years, such as interactive television and other enhanced program services, including high-speed internet access through cable modem as well as IP telephony. As of December 31, 2009, Cablevisión had 250,550 cable modem customers compared to 199,731 at December 31, 2008. The growth we have experienced in Cablevisión has been driven primarily by the conversion of our system from analog to digital format. Accordingly, Cablevisión has concluded its plan to switch its analog subscriber base to the digital service. In addition, Cablevisión introduced video on demand, or VOD, services and, in May 2007 received governmental approval to introduce telephony services. On July 2, 2007, Cablevisión began to offer IP telephony services in certain areas of Mexico City and as of December 31, 2009, it had 133,829 IP telephone lines in service. As of December 31, 2009, Cablevisión has offered the service in every area in which its network is bidirectional.

As of May 2010, we owned 58.3% of the capital stock and 49% of the voting stock of Cablemás. Cablemás operates in 49 cities. As of December 31, 2009, the Cablemás cable network served more than 912,825 cable television subscribers, 289,006 high-speed internet subscribers and 146,406 IP-telephony lines, with approximately 2.73 million homes passed. On August 8, 2007, the Mexican Antitrust Commission authorized, subject to compliance with certain conditions, the conversion of our long-term notes into 99.99% of the equity of Alvafig, and on December 11, 2007, after we appealed the first decision of the Mexican Antitrust Commission, the conversion of our long-term convertible notes into 99.99% of the equity of Alvafig was authorized subject to compliance with certain new conditions. The initial two conditions that have already been met, and that going forward must be complied with on a continuous basis, are: (1) to make available, subject to certain conditions, our over the air channels to pay-TV operators on non-discriminatory terms (“must offer”) and (2) that our pay-TV platforms carry, upon request and subject to certain conditions, over the air channels operating in the same geographic zones where such pay-TV platforms provide their services (“must carry”). There are other conditions that have been met and that have to be met, which we believe we are complying with on a timely basis, including the termination of the Stockholder Trust which took place on June 17, 2009.

In March 2006, our subsidiary, Corporativo Vasco de Quiroga, S.A. de C.V., or CVQ, acquired a 50% interest in TVI. TVI is a telecommunications company offering pay television, data and voice services in the metropolitan area of Monterrey and other areas in northern Mexico. As of December 31, 2009, TVI had 1.0 million homes passed, served more than 237,062 cable television subscribers, 112,105 high-speed internet subscribers and 75,779 telephone lines.

CVQ notified the Mexican Antitrust Commission of its intent to acquire a 50% interest in TVI, and after appealing the decision of such authority at the first stage of the process on February 23, 2007, the Mexican Antitrust Commission authorized the intended acquisition, subject to compliance with certain conditions. We believe that as of this date, CVQ has complied on a regular basis with all of such conditions. See “Key Information — Risk Factors — Risk Factors Related to Mexico — Mexican Antitrust Laws May Limit Our Ability to Expand Through Acquisitions or Joint Ventures”.

Expanding Our Publishing Business

With a total approximate circulation of 153 million magazines during 2009, we believe our subsidiary, Editorial Televisa, S.A. de C.V., or Editorial Televisa, is the most important Spanish-speaking publishing company in the world in number of magazines distributed. Editorial Televisa publishes 178 titles; 113 are wholly-owned and produced in-house and the 65 remaining titles are licensed from world renowned publishing houses, including Spanish language editions of some of the most prestigious brands in the world. Editorial Televisa distributes its titles to approximately 20 countries, including Mexico, the United States and countries throughout Latin America.

We believe that Editorial Televisa leads at least 18 of the 20 markets in which we compete in terms of readership.

Increasing Our International Programming Sales Worldwide and Strengthening Our Position in the Growing U.S.-Hispanic Market

We license our programs to television broadcasters and pay-TV providers in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe and Africa. Excluding the United States, in 2009, we licensed 65,449 hours of programming in approximately 57 countries throughout the world. We intend to continue exploring ways of expanding our international programming sales.

In November 2005, the government of Spain granted a concession for a nationwide free-to-air analog television channel and two nationwide free-to-air digital television channels to La Sexta, a consortium that includes Televisa, which holds a 40.517% equity interest therein; Grupo Globomedia and the Mediapro Group, which control a 51.658% equity interest, indirectly, through their interest in GAMP Audiovisual, S.A., or GAMP; and as of November 2006, Gala Desarrollos Comerciales, S.L. or Gala, which holds a 7.825% equity interest which it acquired from GAMP. La Sexta began broadcasting on March 27, 2006. Through our investment in La Sexta, we believe we are able to capitalize on the size of Spain’s advertising market, as well as the potential synergies between the country’s entertainment market and our current markets. For a description of our arrangements with La Sexta, see “— Investments — La Sexta”.

The U.S.-Hispanic population, estimated to be 48.4 million, or approximately 15.8% of the U.S. population according to U.S. Census estimates published May 14, 2009, is currently one of the fastest growing segments in the U.S. population, with the growth among Hispanics responsible for half of the U.S. population gains between 2000 and 2009. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that the Hispanic population will be approximately 21% of the U.S. population by the year 2025. Hispanics are expected to account for U.S.$1.3 trillion of U.S. consumer spending, or 9.9% of the U.S. total disposable income, by 2014, outpacing the expected growth in total U.S. consumer expenditures.

We intend to leverage our unique and exclusive content, media assets and long-term associations with others to benefit from the growing demand for entertainment among the U.S.-Hispanic population.

We supply television programming for the U.S.-Hispanic market through Univision, the leading Spanish-language media company in the United States. In exchange for this programming, during 2007, 2008, 2009, Univision paid us U.S.$138.0 million, U.S.$146.5 million and U.S.$143.0 million, respectively, in royalties. For a description of our arrangements with Univision, see “— Univision”.

In March 2007, at the closing of the acquisition of Univision, all of our shares and warrants in Univision were cancelled and converted into cash in an aggregate amount of U.S.$1,094.4 million. As a result of such conversion, we no longer hold an equity interest in Univision. We are also no longer bound by the provisions of certain participation agreement by and among Televisa, Univision, certain principals of Univision, and Venevision, or the Participation Agreement, except in the case that we enter into certain transactions involving direct broadcast satellite or DTH satellite to the U.S. market. The Participation Agreement had formerly restricted our ability to enter into certain transactions involving Spanish-language television broadcasting and a Spanish-language television network in the U.S. without first offering Univision the opportunity to acquire a 50% economic interest. Subject to certain restrictions which may continue to bind us by reason of the 2001 Program License Agreement, or PLA, between Televisa Internacional, S.A. de C.V. and Univision, and other limited exceptions, we can now engage in certain business opportunities in the growing U.S. Hispanic marketplace relating to programming or otherwise without offering Univision participation in such opportunities. See “— Univision”.

We maintain a joint venture, TuTv, with Univision through which we operate and distribute a suite of Spanish-language television channels for digital cable and satellite delivery in the United States. In May 2003, TuTv entered into a five-year distribution agreement with DISH Network Corporation, formerly EchoStar Communications Corporation, the third largest provider of Latino pay-TV programming in the U.S., for three of the five existing channels. In October 2008, TuTv extended this agreement through December 2012, and in relation to the extension launched the Mexican regional music network Bandamax as well as one more channel for a total of four. TuTv currently distributes five cable channels, including two movie channels and three channels featuring music videos, celebrity lifestyle and interviews and entertainment news programming. In 2009, channels distributed by TuTv reached approximately 1.9 million subscribers through EchoStar Communications Corporation, DIRECTV Puerto Rico, Cox, Time Warner and other smaller systems. See “— Univision”.

Developing New Businesses and Expanding through Acquisitions

We plan to continue leveraging our strengths and capabilities to develop new business opportunities and expand through acquisitions and investments in Mexico, the United States and elsewhere. Any such acquisition or investment, which could be funded using cash on hand, our equity securities and/or the issuance of debt securities, could be substantial in size.

We plan to continue growing our gaming business which consists of bingo and sports books halls, and a national lottery. As of December 31, 2009, we had 26 bingo and sports books halls in operation, under the brand name “Play City”. In accordance with our permit, we plan to continue opening bingo and sports books halls over the course of the next three years, to result in a total of 65. In addition, during 2007 we launched Multijuegos, an online lottery with access to a nationwide network of approximately 6,000 electronic terminals. The bingo and sports books halls and Multijuegos are operated under the Gaming Permit obtained from the Mexican Ministry of the Interior, to establish, among other things, up to 65 bingo and sports books halls and number draws throughout Mexico. In the first quarter of 2009, we negotiated an orderly termination of the existing contract with Scientific Games, our technology partner for the operations of our online lottery business, and on June 30, 2009 entered into new agreements by which Multijuegos obtained from Scientific Games a license for the lottery software and all the electronic terminals, communications equipment and hardware of the lottery system to operate directly the same.

On August 30, 2009, we entered into a strategic alliance agreement with Genomma Lab Internacional, S.A.B. de C.V., or Genomma Lab, to sell and distribute personal care and over the counter pharmaceuticals in the United States and Puerto Rico. The strategic alliance will operate through Televisa Consumer Products USA, or TCP, a company owned 51% by Televisa and 49% by Genomma Lab. The sale and distribution of Genomma Lab’s products will be an integral part of the activities of TCP. As part of this alliance, on October 8, 2009, TCP entered into, among others, a commercial supply agreement with Genomma Lab. We will make available our different media platforms in the United States and Puerto Rico to TCP, which will provide Genomma Lab’s brands with significant advertising in the targeted markets corresponding to Genomma Lab’s business model. This will enable Genomma Lab to expand the extensive success of its brands beyond Mexico and Latin America by accessing a Hispanic market of approximately 50 million consumers with an estimated purchasing power of over $870 billion annually while leveraging Televisa’s reach and name recognition in the Hispanic market. The transaction was closed on October 8, 2009 and we launched operations in March 2010.

On February 15, 2010, we entered into an Investment and Securities Subscription Agreement, or Investment Agreement with NII pursuant to which we will acquire a 30% equity interest in Comunicaciones Nextel de Mexico, S.A. de C.V., or Nextel Mexico, for an aggregate purchase price of $1.44 billion. Under the Investment Agreement, we will be granted an option to acquire an additional 7.5% equity interest in Nextel Mexico that will be exercisable on either the third or fourth anniversary of completion of the initial investment. NII will continue to hold the remaining equity interests in Nextel Mexico. Under the Investment Agreement, the parties agreed to form a consortium to participate together in an auction of licenses authorizing the use of certain frequency bands for wireless communication services in Mexico, which is currently being conducted by the Comisión Federal de Telecomunicaciones , or The Federal Telecommunications Commission, in Mexico. Completion of the transactions contemplated by the Investment Agreement including the acquisition by Televisa of the equity interest is conditioned upon, among other things, the consortium’s success in acquiring spectrum in the auction and receiving the necessary licenses to use such spectrum.

On March 18, 2010, Telefónica Móviles de México, S.A. de C.V., Editora Factum, S.A. de C.V., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, and Megacable agreed to jointly participate, through a consortium, in the public bid for a pair of dark fiber wires held by the Mexican Federal Power Commission, or CFE ( Comisión Federal de Electricidad ). On June 9, 2010, the SCT granted the consortium a favorable award in the bidding process for a 20 year contract for the lease of 19,457 kilometers of dark fiber-optic capacity, along with a corresponding concession to operate a public telecommunications network using a new technology model known as power line communications, or PLC, and broadband over power lines communications, or BPL. The consortium, through GTAC, in which each of Telefónica, Editora Factum and Megacable has an equal equity participation, will pay Ps.883.8 million as consideration for the concession. GTAC plans to have the network ready to offer commercial services in approximately 18 months, and expects to invest close to an additional Ps.1.3 billion during the term of the lease to get the network ready for service. This new fiber optic network will represent for us a new alternative to access data transportation services, increasing competition in the Mexican telecommunications market and therefore improving the quality of the services offered. The fiber optic network will aim to increase broadband internet access for businesses as well as households in Mexico.

We expect that in the future we may identify and evaluate opportunities for strategic acquisitions of complementary businesses, technologies or companies. We may also consider joint ventures and other collaborative projects and investments.

Television

Television Industry in Mexico

General. There are ten television stations operating in Mexico City and approximately 458 other television stations elsewhere in Mexico. Most of the stations outside of Mexico City retransmit programming originating from the Mexico City stations. We own and operate four of the ten television stations in Mexico City, Channels 2, 4, 5 and 9. These stations are affiliated with 219 repeater stations and 33 local stations outside of Mexico City. See “— Television Broadcasting”. We also own an English-language television station in Mexico on the California border. Our major competitor, TV Azteca, owns and operates Channels 7 and 13 in Mexico City, which we believe are affiliated with 85 and 93 stations, respectively, outside of Mexico City. Televisora del Valle de Mexico, S.A. de C.V., or Televisora del Valle de México, owns the concession for CNI Channel 40, a UHF channel that broadcasts throughout the Mexico City metropolitan area. The Mexican government currently operates two stations in Mexico City, Channel 11, which has 9 repeater stations, and Channel 22. There are also 21 independent stations outside of Mexico City which are unaffiliated with any other stations. See “— Television Broadcasting”.

We estimate that approximately 23.1 million Mexican households have television sets, representing approximately 91.2% of the total households in Mexico as of December 31, 2009. We believe that approximately 97.7% of all households in Mexico City and the surrounding area have television sets.

Ratings and Audience Share. All television ratings and audience share information included in this annual report relate to data supplied by IBOPE Mexico, a privately owned market research firm based in Mexico City. IBOPE Mexico is one of the 15 global branch offices of IBOPE. IBOPE Mexico conducts operations in Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterrey and 25 other Mexican cities with a population over 500,000, and the survey data provided in this annual report covers data collected from national surveys. IBOPE Mexico reports that its television surveys have a margin of error of plus or minus 5%.

As used in this annual report, “audience share” for a period means the number of television sets tuned into a particular program as a percentage of the number of households watching over-the-air television during that period without regard to the number of viewers. “Rating” for a period refers to the number of television sets tuned into a particular program as a percentage of the total number of all television households. “Average audience share” for a period refers to the average daily audience share during that period, and “average rating” for a period refers to the average daily rating during that period with each rating point representing one percent of all television households. “Prime time” is 4:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., seven days a week, “weekday prime time” is 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, and “sign-on to sign-off” is 6:00 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week. The average ratings and average audience share for our television networks and local affiliates and programs relate to conventional over-the-air television stations only; cable services, multi-channel, multi-point distribution system and DTH satellite services, videocassettes and video games are excluded.

Programming

Programming We Produce. We produce a significant part of the Spanish-language television programming in the world. In 2007, 2008 and 2009, we produced approximately 68,800 hours, 72,900, and 71,300 hours, respectively, of programming for broadcast on our network stations and through our cable operations and DTH satellite joint ventures, including programming produced by our local stations.

We produce a variety of programs, including telenovelas, newscasts, situation comedies, game shows, reality shows, children’s programs, comedy and variety programs, musical and cultural events, movies and educational programming. Our telenovelas are broadcast either dubbed or subtitled in a variety of languages throughout the world.

Our programming also includes broadcasts of special events and sports events in Mexico promoted by us and others. Among the sports events that we broadcast are soccer games and professional wrestling matches. See “— Other Businesses — Sports and Show Business Promotions”. In 2007, we broadcast the 2007 FIFA Under-20 World Cup, certain matches of the CONCACAF Gold Cup, and the Copa America. In 2008, we broadcast the 2008 Olympic Games held in Beijing, China, and the 2008 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup. In 2009, we broadcast the 2009 Confederations Cup, the 2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup, the 2009 FIFA Under-17 World Cup and the 2009 FIFA Under-20 World Cup.

Our programming is produced primarily at our 30 studios in Mexico City. We also operate 18 fully equipped remote control units. Some of our local television stations also produce their own programming. These local stations operate 41 studios and 35 fully equipped remote control units. See “— Television Broadcasting — Local Affiliates”.

Foreign-Produced Programming. We license and broadcast television programs produced by third parties outside Mexico. Most of this foreign programming is from the United States and includes television series, movies and sports events, including coverage of Major League Baseball games and National Football League games. Foreign-produced programming represented approximately 49%, 45%, and 44% of the programming broadcast on our four television networks in 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively. A substantial majority of the foreign-produced programming aired on our networks was dubbed into Spanish and was aired on Channels 4 and 5, with the remainder aired on Channel 9.

Talent Promotion. We operate Centro de Educación Artística, a school in Mexico City, to develop and train actors and technicians. We provide instruction free of charge, and a substantial number of the actors appearing on our programs have attended the school. We also promote writers and directors through a writers’ school as well as various contests and scholarships.

The programs shown on our networks are among the most watched television programs in Mexico. Based on IBOPE Mexico surveys during 2007, 2008 and 2009, our networks aired 146, 137, and 136, respectively, of the 200 most watched television programs throughout Mexico and produced 16, 17, and 16, respectively, of the 25 most watched television programs in Mexico. Most of the remaining top 25 programs in those periods were soccer games and special feature films that were aired on our networks.

The following charts compare the average audience share and average ratings during prime time hours, weekday prime time hours and from sign-on to sign-off hours, of our television networks as measured by the national audience, from January 2007 through December 2009, shown on a bimonthly basis.

Average Audience Share
January 2007 — December 2009(1)

Average Ratings
January 2007 — December 2009(1)

Channel 2 Network. Channel 2, which is known as “ El Canal de las Estrellas ”, or “The Channel of the Stars”, together with its affiliated stations, is the leading television network in Mexico and the leading Spanish-language television network in the world, as measured by the size of the audience capable of receiving its signal. Channel 2’s programming is broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week, on 127 television stations located throughout Mexico. The affiliate stations generally retransmit the programming and advertising transmitted to them by Channel 2 without interruption. Such stations are referred to as “repeater” stations. We estimate that the Channel 2 Network reaches approximately 22.8 million households, representing 98.5% of the households with television sets in Mexico. The Channel 2 Network accounted for a majority of our national television advertising sales in each of 2007, 2008 and 2009.

According to the Política Nacional para la Introducción de los Servicios de Televisión Digital Terrestre or the National Policy for the Introduction of Terrestrial Digital Television Services in Mexico dictated by the SCT, in May 2005, Mexico City’s Channel 2 obtained a license to transmit DTV services on Channel 48 as its second channel throughout the transition period from analog to digital television, which is estimated to end by the year 2021. Also, six repeaters of the Channel 2 Network located in Guadalajara, Monterrey, and four cities along the border with the United States of America have obtained similar licenses. Since December 2005, these DTV stations have been in place and fully operational.

The following table shows the average audience share of the Channel 2 Network during prime time hours, weekday prime time hours and sign-on to sign-off hours for the periods indicated:

The Channel 2 Network targets the average Spanish-speaking family as its audience. Its programs include soap operas (telenovelas), news, entertainment, comedy and variety programs, movies, game shows, reality shows and sports. The telenovelas make up the bulk of the prime time lineup and consist of romantic dramas that unfold over the course of 120 to 200 half-hour episodes. Substantially all of Channel 2’s programming is aired on a first-run basis and virtually all of it, other than Spanish-language movies, is produced by us.

Channel 5 Network. In addition to its anchor station, Channel 5 is affiliated with 66 repeater stations located throughout Mexico. We estimate that the Channel 5 Network reaches approximately 21.2 million households, representing approximately 91.8% of households with television sets in Mexico. We believe that Channel 5 offers the best option to reach the 18-34 year old demographic, and we have extended its reach into this key group by offering new content.

According to the National Policy for the Introduction of Terrestrial Digital Television Services in Mexico dictated by the SCT, in September 2005, Mexico City’s Channel 5 obtained a license to transmit DTV services in Channel 50 as its second channel during the transition period estimated to end by the year 2021. Also, two repeaters of the Channel 5 Network had obtained a similar license. Since December 2005, these DTV stations have been in place and fully operational.

The following table shows the average audience share of the Channel 5 Network during prime time hours, weekday prime time hours and sign-on to sign-off hours during the periods indicated:

We believe that Channel 5 has positioned itself as the most innovative television channel in Mexico with a combination of reality shows, sitcoms, dramas, movies, cartoons and other children’s programming. The majority of Channel 5’s programs are produced outside of Mexico, primarily in the United States. Most of these programs are produced in English. In 2009, we aired 27 of the 50 top-rated movies.

Channel 4 Network. Channel 4 broadcasts in the Mexico City metropolitan area and, according to our estimates, reaches over 5.3 million households, representing approximately 22.8% of television households in Mexico in 2009. As described above, as part of our plan to attract medium-sized and local Mexico City advertisers, we focused the reach of this network throughout Mexico and revised the format of Channel 4 to create 4TV in an effort to target viewers in the Mexico City metropolitan area. We currently sell local advertising time on 4TV to medium-sized and local advertisers at rates comparable to those charged for advertising on local, non-television media, such as radio, newspapers and billboards. However, by purchasing local advertising time on 4TV, medium-sized and local advertisers are able to reach a wider audience than they would reach through local, non-television media.

According to the National Policy for the Introduction of Terrestrial Digital Television Services in Mexico dictated by the SCT, in September 2005, Mexico City’s Channel 4 obtained a license to transmit DTV services in Channel 49 as its second channel during the analog to digital transition period estimated to end by the year 2021. As of December 2005, this DTV station has been installed and fully operational.

The following table shows the average audience share of the Channel 4 Network during prime time hours, weekday prime time hours and sign-on to sign-off hours during the periods indicated, including audience share for local stations:

4TV targets young adults and stay-at-home parents. Its programs consist primarily of news, comedy, sports, and entertainment shows produced by us, as well as a late night home shopping program, foreign-produced series, mini-series and movies, which are dubbed or subtitled in Spanish. 4TV has succeeded in attracting a larger share of the Mexico City television audience by broadcasting two local newscasts relating to the Mexico City metropolitan area.

Channel 9 Network. In addition to its anchor station, Channel 9 is affiliated with 27 repeater stations, approximately 39% of which are located in central Mexico. We estimate that Channel 9 reaches approximately 16.8 million households, representing approximately 72.8% of households with television sets in Mexico. Channel 9 broadcasts in 26 of the 27 cities other than Mexico City that are covered by national surveys.

According to the National Policy for the Introduction of Terrestrial Digital Television Services in Mexico dictated by the SCT, in October 2006, Mexico City’s Channel 9 obtained a license to transmit DTV services in Channel 44 as its second channel during the transition period estimated to end by the year 2021. As of January 2007, this DTV station has been operational. Also, as disclosed above, in April 2008, we began broadcasting Telemundo’s original programming on Channel 9.

The following table shows the average audience share of the Channel 9 Network during prime time hours, weekday prime time hours and sign-on to sign-off hours during the periods indicated:

The Channel 9 Network targets families as its audience. Its programs principally consist of movies, sports, sitcoms, game shows, telenovelas produced by third parties, news and re-runs of popular programs from Channel 2. In April 2008, we began broadcasting more than 1,000 hours per year of Telemundo’s original programming on Channel 9. See “Business Strategy — Maintaining Our Leading Position in the Mexican Television Market — Continuing to Produce High Quality Programming”.

Local Affiliates. There are currently 33 local television stations affiliated with our networks, of which 18 stations are wholly owned, one station is minority owned and 14 stations are independent affiliated stations. These stations receive part of their programming from Channels 4 and 9. See “— Channel 4 Network”. The remaining programs aired consist primarily of programs licensed from our program library and locally produced programs. The locally produced programs include news, game shows, musicals and other cultural programs and programs offering professional advice. In 2007, 2008 and 2009, the local television stations owned by us produced 48,100 hours, 49,500 hours, and 48,600 hours, respectively, of programming. Each of the local affiliates maintains its own sales department and sells advertising time during broadcasts of programs that it produces and/or licenses. Generally, we pay the affiliate stations that we do not wholly own a fixed percentage of advertising sales for network affiliation.

According to the National Policy for the Introduction of Terrestrial Digital Television Services in Mexico dictated by the SCT, six of the 18 local stations wholly owned have obtained licenses to transmit DTV services in their service area during the transition period estimated to end by year 2021. These six DTV stations are in place and fully operational.

Border Stations. We currently own XETV, a Tijuana based television station which operates under a concession from the SCT from Mexico (The “Border Station”) on the Mexico/U.S. border that broadcasts English-language programs pursuant to a permit granted by The Ministry of The Interior, which is renewed yearly. The Border Station is affiliated with the Tijuana/San Diego market, under an affiliation agreement with The CW Network LLC, or CW Network. The CW Network was formed as a joint venture between Warner Bros. Entertainment and CBS Corporation. The Border Station broadcasts under renewable permits issued by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, to the station and to CW that authorize electronic cross-border programming transmissions. XETV is operated through a station operating agreement with Bay City Television, a U.S. corporation indirectly owned by Televisa. XETV’s FCC cross-border permit was renewed on June 30, 2008 for a five-year term expiring on June 30, 2013. The CW’s cross-border FCC permit began on August 8, 2008 for a five-year term and will expire on August 8, 2013.

Pay Television Networks. We produce or license a suite of Spanish and English-language television channels for pay-TV systems in Mexico, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia. These channels include programming such as general entertainment, telenovelas, movies and music-related shows, interviews and videos. Some of the programming included in these channels is produced by us while other programming is acquired or commissioned from third parties. As of December 2009, we had over 23 million subscribers worldwide.

In 2007, 2008 and 2009, we produced approximately 10,100 hours, 13,200 hours, and 13,300 hours, respectively, of programming and videos, for broadcast on our pay-TV channels. The names and brands of our channels include: Telehit , Ritmoson Latino , Bandamax , De Película , De Película Clásico , Unicable , Cinema Golden Choice 1 & 2, Cinema Golden Choice Latinoamérica, Canal de Telenovelas , American Network , Canal de las Estrellas Latinoamérica, Canal de las Estrellas Europa , Canal 2 Delay-2hrs Clasico TV , TDN and Foro TV .

TuTv, which operates and distributes a suite of Spanish-language television channels in the United States, began operations in the second quarter of 2003 and currently distributes five cable channels, including two movie channels and three channels featuring music videos, celebrity lifestyle and interviews and entertainment news programming. See “— Univision”. In May 2003, TuTv entered into a five-year distribution agreement with DISH Network Corporation, formerly EchoStar Communications Corporation for three of the five existing channels. In October 2008, TuTv extended this agreement through December 2012, and in relation to the extension launched the Mexican regional music network Bandamax as well as one more channel for a total of four. See “— Univision”.

Programming Exports. We license our programs and our rights to programs produced by other television broadcasters and pay-TV providers in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Europe and Africa. We collect licensing fees based on the size of the market for which the license is granted or on a percentage of the advertising sales generated from the programming. In addition to the programming licensed to Univision, we licensed approximately 60,308 hours, 64,803 hours, and 65,449 hours of programming in 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively. See “— Univision” and “Operating and Financial Review and Prospects — Results of Operations — Total Segment Results — Programming Exports”. As of December 31, 2009, we had approximately 225,567 half-hours of television programming in our library available for licensing.

Expansion of Programming Reach. Our programs can be seen in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Europe and Africa. We intend to continue to expand our sales of Spanish-language programming internationally through pay-TV services.

Publishing

We believe we are the most important publisher and distributor of magazines in Mexico, and of Spanish-language magazines in the world, as measured by circulation.

With a total circulation of approximately 153 million copies in 2009, we publish 178 titles that are distributed in approximately 20 countries, including the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru and Panama, among others. See “— Other Businesses — Publishing Distribution”. Our main publications in Mexico include a weekly entertainment and telenovelas magazine, TV y Novelas , Vanidades , a popular bi-weekly magazine for women; Caras , a monthly leading lifestyle and socialite magazine; Eres , a bi-weekly magazine for teenagers; Conozca Más , a monthly science and culture magazine; and Furia Musical , a bi-weekly musical magazine that promotes principally Banda and Onda Grupera music performers. Our other main publications in Latin America and the United States include Vanidades, TV y Novelas U.S.A. and Caras.

We publish the Spanish-language edition of several magazines, including Cosmopolitan , Good Housekeeping , Harper’s Bazaar, Seventeen , and Popular Mechanics through a joint venture with Hearst Communications, Inc.; PC Magazine , pursuant to a license agreement with Ziff-Davis Media, Inc.; Maxim , pursuant to a license agreement with Alpha Media Group, Inc.; Marie Claire , pursuant to a license agreement with Marie Claire Album; Men’s Health and Prevention, Women’s Health, Runner’s World , pursuant to a license agreement with Rodale Press, Inc.; Sport Life and Automóvil Panamericano , as well as other special editions of popular automotive magazines, through a joint venture with Motorpress Iberica, S.A.; Muy Interesante and Padres e Hijos pursuant to a joint venture with GyJ España Ediciones, S.L.C. en C.; and Disney Princesas , Disney Winnie Pooh, Disney Hadas, Power Rangers and Playhouse Disney , pursuant to a license agreement with Disney Consumer Products Latin America, Inc. We also publish a Spanish-language edition of National Geographic , National Geographic Traveler and of National Geographic Kids in Latin America and in the United States through a licensing agreement with National Geographic Society. In addition, we publish a Spanish-language edition of OK! pursuant to a license agreement with Northern & Shell Luxembourg Branch as well as several comics pursuant to a license agreement with Marvel Characters, B.V.

During 2007, we acquired Editorial Atlántida, a leading publishing company in Argentina. Editorial Atlántida publishes a total of 11 magazines and operates a book publishing business, interactive websites, and numerous brand-extension projects.

During 2009, we launched three new titles, Atrévete a Soñar, a telenovela-themed licensed magazine, Poder y Negocios Venezuela and Poder y Negocios Perú , which are wholly owned business titles.

Cable and Telecom

Cablevisión

The Cable Television Industry in Mexico. Cable television offers multiple channels of entertainment, news and informational programs to subscribers who pay a monthly fee. These fees are based on the package of channels they receive. See “— Digital Cable Television Services”. According to Mexico’s cable television trade organization, Cámara Nacional de la Industria de Televisión por Cable , or CANITEC, there were approximately 1,408 cable concessions in Mexico as of December 31, 2009, serving approximately 5.1 million subscribers.

Mexico City Cable System. We own a 51% interest in Cablevisión, one of the most important cable television operators in Mexico, which provides cable television services to subscribers in Mexico City and surrounding areas. See Note 24 to our year-end financial statements. As of December 31, 2009, Cablevisión had over 632,061 cable television subscribers all of which were digital subscribers. On March 27, 2009, the shareholders of Cablevisión approved the issuance of an additional 657,467,502 common shares and an increase in its capital stock for an amount of Ps.328,733,751.00 for which Ps.3,371,266,237.00 was paid as premium for the subscription of such capital increase. This capital increase did not change the percentage ownership of Televisa in Cablevisión. CPOs, each representing two series A shares and one series B share of Cablevisión, are traded on the Mexican Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “CABLE”.

Digital Cable Television Services. Cablevisión was the first multi-system operator in Mexico to offer an on-screen interactive programming guide, video on demand, high definition channels as well as Motorola and TiVo ^® DVR services throughout Mexico City. Along with its digital cable service, Cablevisión also offers high speed internet and a competitive digital telephone service in a 100% bundled portfolio. Through its world class network, Cablevisión is able to distribute high quality video content, unique video services, last generation interactivity with “Cablevisión On Demand”, 1080i high definition, impulse and order pay-per-view, a-la-carte programming, among other products and services, with added value features and premium solutions for consumers. Cablevisión’s 100% digital cable service offers six main programming packages ranging in price from Ps.189.00 to Ps.679.00 (VAT included), which as of April 30, 2009 included up to 280 linear channels: 194 video channels (this comprises 10 over-the-air channels, Fox, ESPN, CNN International, HBO, Disney Channel, TNT, and others), 56 audio channels and 21 pay-per-view channels.

Video-on-Demand and Pay-Per-View Channels. Cablevisión currently offers its Video-On-Demand platform as well as 21 pay-per-view cable television channels in each of its digital service packages. The Video-On-Demand Service and the pay-per-view channels show films and special events programs, including sports and musical events among other content.

Cablevisión Television Revenues. Cablevisión’s revenues are generated from subscriptions for its cable services and from sales of advertising to local and national advertisers. Subscriber revenues come from monthly service and rental fees, and to a lesser extent, one-time installation fees. Its current monthly service fees range in price from Ps.189.00 to Ps.679.00. See “— Digital Cable Television Services”. The Mexican government does not currently regulate the rates Cablevisión charges for its basic and digital premium service packages, although we cannot assure you that the Mexican government will not regulate Cablevisión’s rates in the future. If the SCT were to determine that the size and nature of Cablevisión’s market presence was significant enough so as to have an anti-competitive effect, then the SCT could regulate the rates Cablevisión charges for its various services.

Cablevisión Television Initiatives. Cablevisión plans to continue offering the following multimedia communications services to its subscribers:

	•		enhanced programming services, including video games, video on demand, high definition, impulse pay per view;
	•		Broadband internet services; and
	•		IP telephony services.

In May 2007, Cablevisión received a concession to offer fixed telephony services through its network. On July 2, 2007, Cablevisión began to offer IP telephony services in certain areas of Mexico City and by the end of 2009 offered the service in every area in which its network is bidirectional, which represents 84.7% of its total network.

In order to provide these multimedia communications services, Cablevisión requires a cable network with bi-directional capability operating at a speed of at least 750 MHz and a digital set-top box. In order to provide these new services, Cablevisión is in the process of upgrading its existing cable network. Cablevisión’s cable network currently consists of more than 13,500 kilometers with over 1.9 million homes passed. In 2009, Cablevisión expanded its network by over 1,424 kilometers. As of December 31, 2009, 14.66% of Cablevisión’s network runs at least at 450 MHz, approximately 6.82% of Cablevisión’s network runs at least at 550 MHz, approximately 14.15% of Cablevisión’s network runs at least at 750 MHz, approximately 45.6% runs at least at 870 MHz, approximately 18.77% of Cablevisión’s network runs at least at 1 GHz, and approximately 84.72% of Cablevisión’s network has bidirectional capability.

Cablemás.

Cablemás Cable System. As of May 2009, we owned 58.3% of the capital stock and 49% of the voting stock of Cablemás. Cablemás operates in 49 cities. As of December 31, 2009, the Cablemás cable network served more than 912,825 cable television subscribers, 289,006 high-speed internet subscribers and 146,406 IP-telephony lines, with approximately 2.73 homes passed.

As of December 31, 2009 Cablemás’ cable network consisted of 16,584 kilometers of cable. Cablemás is in the final stage of converting its existing cable network into a broadband bidirectional network, operating from 550MHz to 860MHz with the ability to transmit video, data and voice at high-speeds. Currently, 88% of Cablemás’ cable network has bidirectional capability, of which 93% was operating at or greater than 550 MHz and 83% was operating at or greater than 750 MHz.

Cablemás Revenues. Cablemás has experienced strong organic growth due to successful implementation of its business strategy, introduction of new products and services and wide acceptance of its bundling offerings.

Cablemás’ overall strategy is to increase its penetration levels in each of its markets, through greater value-added services in pay TV, in its active participation in the consolidation of the industry, and through the continued and successful roll-out of Triple-Play services. Cablemás considers itself one of the fastest growing cable television companies in Mexico. Its installed network and its access to subscribers’ homes provide opportunities to achieve sales of inter-related services, including video, data (internet) and telephony, as demand for value-added packages develops.

Cablemás’ investments to increase its networks’ bandwidth and make them bidirectional have allowed it to provide additional products which have enhanced its product offerings. These include:

	•		Digital signal, Video-on-Demand, and high-definition programming among others, for cable television
	•		Broadband internet services; and
	•		IP telephony services.

These additional products have allowed Cablemás to increase the average revenue generated per subscriber at no substantial incremental cost and at an economic advantage to consumers.

Cablemás Services. Since its beginning as a cable system concessionaire Cablemás has grown to offer cable television services, high-speed internet access and telephony services. Currently, Cablemás offers four types of video packages to its customers, which include: “Minibasic” (U.S.$13), “Basic” (U.S.$26), “Superbasic” (U.S.$39) and “Premium” (basic or superbasic rate plus up to U.S.$20). Cablemás packages include up to 80 video channels. In addition to the above, Cablemás offers high speed internet services ranging from 256 kbps (U.S.$18) to 3 Mbps (U.S.$53) and telephony services, which are offered in 100 minute packages (U.S.$14) up to 800 minute packages (U.S.$29).

TVI. In March 2006, our subsidiary CVQ acquired a 50% interest in TVI, a telecommunications company offering pay television, data and voice services in the metropolitan area of Monterrey and other areas in northern Mexico.

As of December 31, 2009, TVI had 1.0 million homes passed, served more than 237,062 cable television subscribers, 112,105 high-speed internet subscribers and 75,779 telephone lines.

Bestel. In December 2007, our indirect majority-owned subsidiary, Cablestar, completed the acquisition of shares of companies owning the majority of the assets of Bestel, a privately held, facilities-based telecommunications company in Mexico, for U.S.$256.0 million in cash plus an additional capital contribution of U.S.$69.0 million. In connection with the financing of the acquisition of the majority of the assets of Bestel, Cablevisión, Cablemás and TVI, which as of December 2007, held 69.2%, 15.4% and 15.4% of the equity stock of Cablestar, respectively, each entered into five year term loan facilities for U.S.$225.0 million, U.S.$50.0 million and U.S.$50.0 million, respectively. In June 2009, the Company acquired TVI’s indebtedness under the above mentioned term loan facility. In July 2009, the Company exchanged its loan balance in connection with such credit facility for the 15.4% interest TVI held in Cablestar. Bestel focuses on providing voice, data, and managed services to domestic and international carriers and to the enterprise, corporate, and government segments in both Mexico and the United States. Bestel owns a fiber-optic network of approximately 8,000 kilometers that covers several important cities and economic regions in Mexico and has direct crossing of its network into Dallas, Texas, Nogales, Arizona, and San Diego, California in the United States. This enables the company to provide high capacity connectivity between the United States and Mexico.

Other Businesses

Publishing Distribution . We estimate that we distribute approximately 50%, in terms of volume, of the magazines circulated in Mexico through our subsidiary, Distribuidora Intermex, S.A. de C.V., or Intermex. We believe that our distribution network reaches over 300 million Spanish-speaking people in approximately 20 countries, including Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru and Panama. We also estimate that our distribution network reaches over 28,000 points of sale in Mexico and over 75,000 points of sale outside of Mexico. We also own publishing distribution operations in six countries. Our publications are also sold in the United States, the Caribbean and elsewhere through independent distributors. In 2008 and 2009, 63.9% and 62.2%, respectively, of the publications distributed by our company were published by our Publishing division. In addition, our distribution network sells a number of publications published by joint ventures and independent publishers, as well as DVD’s, calling cards, sticker albums, novelties and other consumer products.

Televisa Interactive Media. TIM is the Company’s online and wireless content division. This venture includes Esmas, our Spanish-language horizontal internet portal; Esmas Móvil, our mobile value added service unit; and Tvolucion.com, Televisa’s online video on demand streaming service. TIM leverages Televisa’s and third party premium and extensive Spanish-language content, including news, sports, business, music and entertainment, editorials, life and style, technology, health, kids and an opinion survey channel, and offers a variety of services, including search engines, chat forums, and news bulletins.

With a wide range of content channels, online and mobile services, and more than 400 million page views per month and more than 23 million monthly unique users in 2009, we believe that TIM has positioned itself as one of the leading digital entertainment portals in Mexico and Hispanic territories. Currently, 72% of TIM’s page views come from Mexico and the rest comes from the U.S. and Latin America.

In October 2008, we entered into license agreements to distribute Telemundo’s original content through digital and wireless platforms in Mexico. As part of the agreements, Telemundo provides Televisa original content, including its highly popular telenovelas currently broadcast on Televisa’s Channel 9, on all of Televisa’s digital platforms including Esmas.com. Moreover, Televisa also offers mobile wall papers, ring tones and text messaging services based on Telemundo branded content to mobile phone subscribers in Mexico through Televisa’s mobile business unit Esmas Móvil, the leading mobile premium content cell phone provider in Mexico. The agreements complement and are part of the strategic alliance to distribute Telemundo’s original content in Mexico across multiple platforms, including, broadcast TV, PayTV and emerging digital platforms.

Since April 2004, Esmas.com has been offering premium content service to mobile phones while leveraging the cell phone networks in Mexico, the U.S. and Latin America. In 2009, Esmas Móvil sent more than 25 million premium messages to more than approximately 7 million mobile subscribers. Most of the content demanded by users consists of news and sports text alerts, interactive TV promotions, lotteries, wallpapers games and music. We believe that due to the Mexican public’s affinity for the high quality and wide range of Televisa’s programming content, TIM has become one of the leading premium content mobile service providers in Mexico and in Latin America.

In connection with the series of agreements we entered into with Univision in December 2001, as described under “— Univision”, we amended the previous PLA such that, for a five-year period ending in December 2006, we agreed to limit our rights to transmit over the internet our programming to which Univision had television rights in the United States. For a description of current litigation we filed against Univision relating to our rights with respect to internet distribution, see “Key Information — Risk Factors — Risk Factors Related to Our Business — Current Litigation We Are Engaged In With Univision May Affect Our Exploitation of Certain Internet Rights in the United States”.

Sports and Show Business Promotions. We actively promote a wide variety of sports events and cultural, musical and other entertainment productions in Mexico. Most of these events and productions are broadcast on our television stations, cable television system, radio stations and DTH satellite services. See “— Television — Programming”, “— Cable and Telecom — Digital Cable Television Services”, “— Cable and Telecom — Pay-Per-View Channels”, “— Radio Stations”, and “— DTH Joint Ventures — Mexico and Central America”.

Soccer. We have title to some of Mexico’s professional soccer teams. These teams currently play in the Mexican First Division and are among the most popular and successful teams in Mexico. Each team plays two 17 game regular seasons per year. The best teams of each regular season engage in post-season championship play.

We own the Azteca Stadium which has a seating capacity of approximately 105,000 people. Azteca Stadium has hosted two World Cup Soccer Championships. In addition, América and the Mexican National Soccer team generally play their home games at this stadium. We have exclusive rights to broadcast the home games of certain Mexican First Division soccer teams.

Promotions. We promote a wide variety of concerts and other shows, including beauty pageants, song festivals and nightclub shows of popular Mexican and international artists.

Feature Film Production and Distribution. We produce first-run Spanish-language feature films, some of which are among Mexico’s top films based on box office receipts. We co-produced four feature films in 2007, four in 2008, and one in 2009. We have previously established co-production arrangements with Mexican film production companies, as well as with major international companies such as Miravista, Warner Bros., Plural Entertainment and Lions Gate Films. We will continue to consider entering into co-production arrangements with third parties in the future, although no assurance can be given in this regard.

We distribute our films to Mexican movie theaters and later release them on video for broadcast on cable and network television. In 2008 we released two feature films through movie theaters and in 2009 we released Cabeza de Buda , one of our coproduced feature films, through movie theaters. We also distribute our feature films outside of Mexico.

We distribute feature films produced by non-Mexican producers in Mexico. Under an agreement with Warner Bros., we were the exclusive distributor in Mexico of their feature films from January 1, 1999, until December 31, 2009. As of January 1, 2010, Warner Bros decided to grant the distribution rights of its films in Mexico to Universal Pictures. In 2007, 2008, 2009 and up to May 7, 2010 we distributed 49, 43, 40 and 7 feature films, respectively, including several U.S. box office hits. We also distribute independently produced non-Mexican and Mexican films in Mexico, the United States and Latin America.

At December 31, 2009, we owned or had rights to approximately 21 Spanish-language films and 130 movies on video titles. Many of these films and titles have been shown on our television networks, cable system and DTH services.

Gaming Business. In 2006, we launched our gaming business which consists of bingo and sports books halls, and a national lottery. As of December 31, 2009, we had 26 bingo and sports books halls in operation, under the brand name “Play City”. In accordance with our Gaming Permit, we plan to continue opening bingo and sports books halls over the course of the next three years, to result in a total of 65. In addition, during 2007 we launched Multijuegos, an online lottery with access to a nationwide network of approximately 6,000 electronic terminals. The bingo and sports books halls and Multijuegos are operated under the Gaming Permit obtained from the Mexican Ministry of the Interior, to establish, among other things, up to 65 bingo and sports books halls and number draws throughout Mexico. In the first quarter of 2009, we negotiated an orderly termination of the existing contract with Scientific Games, our technology partner for the operations of our online lottery business, and on June 30, 2009, entered into new agreements by which Multijuegos obtained from Scientific Games a license for the lottery software and all the electronic terminals, communications equipment and hardware of the lottery system to operate directly the same.

Radio Stations. Our radio business, Sistema Radiópolis, S.A. de C.V., or Radiópolis, is operated under a joint venture with Grupo Prisa, S.A., a leading Spanish communications group. Under this joint venture, we hold a controlling 50% full voting stake in this subsidiary and we have the right to appoint the majority of the members of the joint venture’s board of directors. Except in the case of matters that require unanimous board and/or stockholder approval, such as extraordinary corporate transactions, the removal of directors and the amendment of the joint venture’s organizational documents, among others, we control the outcome of most matters that require board of directors and/or stockholder approval. We also have the right to appoint Radiópolis’ Chief Financial Officer. The election of Radiópolis’ Chief Executive Officer requires a unanimous vote from the joint venture’s board of directors.

Radiópolis owns and operates 17 radio stations in Mexico, including three AM and three FM radio stations in Mexico City, five AM and two FM radio stations in Guadalajara, one AM station in Monterrey, one FM radio station in Mexicali, one AM station in San Luis Potosí and one AM station in Veracruz. Some Radiópolis stations transmit powerful signals which reach beyond the market areas they serve. For example, XEW-AM and XEWA-AM transmit signals that under certain conditions may reach the southern part of the United States. XEW-AM may also reach most of southern Mexico. In June 2004, Radiópolis entered into an agreement with Radiorama, S.A. de C.V., or Radiorama, one of Mexico’s leading radio networks, which added 56 affiliate stations (30 AM, 18 FM and 8 combination stations) to Radiópolis’ existing network, expanding its total network, including owned and operated and affiliate stations, to 121 stations (including 11 combination stations). After giving effect to the transaction with Radiorama, we estimate that Radiópolis’ radio stations reach 73 cities in Mexico. Our programs aired through our radio stations network reach approximately 75 percent of Mexico’s population. We plan to continue to explore ways to expand the reach of our radio programming and advertising through affiliations with third parties and through acquisitions.

According to Investigadores Internacionales Asociados, S.C., or INRA, in 2007, 2008 and 2009, XEW-AM ranked, on average, tenth, thirteenth, and thirteenth, respectively, among the 34 stations in the Mexico City metropolitan area AM market, XEQ-FM, ranked, on average, seventh, sixth, and seventh, respectively, among the 29 stations in the Mexico City metropolitan area FM market, and XEBA ranked, on average, second, second, and second, respectively, among 26 stations in the Guadalajara City metropolitan FM market. INRA conducts daily door-to-door and automobiles interviews in the Mexico City metropolitan area to determine radio listeners’ preferences. Outside Mexico City, INRA conducts periodic surveys. We believe that no other independent surveys of this nature are routinely conducted in Mexico.

Our radio stations use various program formats, which target specific audiences and advertisers, and cross-promote the talent, content and programming of many of our other businesses, including television, sports and news. We produce some of Mexico’s top-rated radio formats, including W Radio (News-talk), Estadio W (Sports), Ke Buena (Mexican music), 40 Principales (Pop music) and Besame Radio (Spanish ballads). W Radio, Ke Buena and 40 Principales formats are also broadcast through the internet.

The successful exclusive radio broadcasting of the 2006 Soccer World Cup and 2008 Olympic Games placed Radiópolis among the highest rating sports-broadcasting radio stations in Mexico.

During the last five years, Radiópolis has organized 20 massive live musical events with leading artists in both musical formats, gathering a record attendance of approximately 175,000 people during the last two events, which were performed at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City. The events organized by Radiópolis have become among the most popular music-related events among the musical radio stations in Mexico.

We sell both national and local advertising on our radio stations. Our radio advertising sales force sells advertising time primarily on a scatter basis. See “— Television — Television Broadcasting — Advertising Sales Plan”. In addition, we use some of our available radio advertising time to satisfy our legal obligation to the Mexican government to provide up to 35 minutes per day of our broadcast time, between 6:00 a.m. and midnight for public service announcements, and 30 minutes per day for official programming (referred to in this annual report as “Official Radio Broadcast Time”).

Investments

OCEN. In October 2002, we acquired a 40% stake in Ocesa Entretenimiento, S.A. de C.V., or OCEN, a subsidiary of CIE, which owns all of the assets related to CIE’s live entertainment business unit in Mexico. OCEN’s business includes the production and promotion of concerts, theatrical, family and cultural events, as well as the operation of entertainment venues, the sale of entrance tickets (under an agreement with Ticketmaster Corporation), food, beverages and merchandising, and the booking and management of Latin artists. OCEN owns 51% of a company named As Deporte, S.A. de C.V., the principal triathlon and athletic competition producer in Mexico, and promoter of other sporting events in Mexico, such as the Ironman competition.

During 2008 and 2009, OCEN promoted more than 3,721 and 4,497 events, respectively, and managed 15 entertainment venues in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey, providing an entertainment platform that established OCEN as a principal live entertainment company in Mexico.

Additionally, during 2009, OCEN promoted several shows in Central America and Colombia, looking to expand its regional dominance of live entertainment over new territories. Important components of OCEN’s business strategy for 2009 and 2010 are the increased on-line presence through the internet site www.ocesa.com.mx, pursuing a reduction of marketing costs, and enhanced understanding of the consumer and direct communication with OCEN’s user base through social networks and digital contents.

Mutual Fund Venture. On June 22, 2010, we sold our 40.84% interest in Más Fondos to Profie Mexicana, S.A. de C.V., our former partner in this venture. Such sale is subject to the authorization of the Mexican Bank and Securities Commission, or Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores, or CNBV.

Más Fondos sells mutual funds that are owned and managed by third parties to individual and institutional investors, and distributes 136 funds managed by 9 entities and operates under a license granted by the CNBV.

Volaris. In October 2005, we acquired a 25% interest in Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A. de C.V. and in Concesionaria Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A. de C.V., (jointly, “Vuela”), pursuant to which we made a capital contribution in the amount of U.S.$25.0 million. During 2006, we made capital contributions of U.S.$7.5 million, in 2008 we made capital contributions of U.S.$12.0 million, and in 2009 we have made capital contributions of up to U.S.$5.0 million to date. We are not obligated to make any further capital contributions to Vuela. Vuela has obtained a concession to own, manage and operate a low-cost carrier airline in Mexico, which is called Volaris. Volaris began operations in March 2006. Our partners in this venture are Sinca Inbursa, S.A. de C.V., The Discovery Americas I, L.P., a private equity fund managed by Protego Asesores Financieros and Discovery Capital Corporation, and Grupo TACA, one of the leading airline operators in Latin America. We provide the in-flight entertainment for Volaris.

La Sexta. In November 2005, the government of Spain granted a concession for a nationwide free-to-air analog television channel and two nationwide free-to-air digital television channels to La Sexta, a consortium that includes Televisa, which holds a 40.517% equity interest therein; Grupo Globomedia and the Mediapro Group, which control a 51.658% equity interest, indirectly, through their interest in GAMP; and as of November 2006, Gala, which holds a 7.825% equity interest which it acquired from GAMP. La Sexta began broadcasting on March 27, 2006.

As part of the agreement with our partners to (i) complete funding the La Sexta business plan in its entirety for the first three years of operations, and (ii) to acquire part of the capital stock of Imagina (formerly, “Grupo Afinia”), an entity which resulted from the merger between the Mediapro Group and Grupo Árbol, we received, among other rights, a call option under which we had the right to subscribe, at a price of € 80.0 million, a percentage of the capital stock of Imagina that was to be determined by the application of a formula related to the enterprise value of Imagina at the time of the exercise of the call option.

In exchange for the call option and certain other rights granted in connection therewith, we agreed to grant Mediapro Arbol, an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Imagina, a credit facility for up to € 80.0 million to be used exclusively for equity contributions by Imagina to La Sexta; provided, among other obligations, that if a third party acquired a portion of the capital stock of Imagina, and any borrowings had been made thereunder, the credit facility would be cancelled and any outstanding amount would have to be repaid to us with the proceeds from the acquisition by the third party.

In March 2007, Torreal Sociedad de Capital de Riesgo de Regimen Simplificado, S.A., acquired a 20% stake in Imagina. As a result of such acquisition, (i) the credit facility has been cancelled, and no repayment of the credit facility was necessary because no borrowings had been made thereunder; and (ii) our partners decided to terminate the call option granted to us in connection with the possible Imagina investment and paid a € 29 million termination fee.

With the investment in La Sexta, we expect to capitalize on the size and growth trends in Spain’s advertising market, as well as the potential synergies between the country’s entertainment market and our current markets. La Sexta began broadcasting on March 27, 2006.

During 2008, we made additional capital contributions of € 44.4 million. During 2009, we made additional capital contributions of € 35.7 million. During 2010, we have made loans to La Sexta of € 21.5 million to date.

For a description of our commitments of capital contributions in 2008 and 2009 related to this investment, See “Operating and Financial Review and Prospects — Results of Operations — Contractual Obligations and Commercial Commitments — Contractual Obligations Off the Balance Sheet”.

Alvafig. In November 2006, we invested U.S.$258.0 million in long-term notes convertible, at our option and subject to regulatory approval, into 99.99% of the equity of Alvafig, the holding company of a 49% interest in the voting stock of Cablemás. In February 2008, we invested U.S.$100.0 million in an additional issuance of long-term notes convertible into 99.99% of the equity of Alvafig, which proceeds were used by Alvafig to increase its interest in Cablemás. On May 16, 2008, we converted all of the convertible long-term notes into 99.99% of the capital stock of Alvafig. Cablemás operates in 49 cities. As of December 31, 2009, the Cablemás cable network served more than 912,825 cable television subscribers, 289,006 high-speed internet subscribers and 146,406 IP-telephony lines, with approximately 2.73 million homes passed. On August 8, 2007, the Mexican Antitrust Commission authorized, subject to compliance with certain conditions, the conversion of our long-term notes into 99.99% of the equity of Alvafig, and on December 11, 2007, after we appealed the first decision of the Mexican Antitrust Commission, the conversion of our long-term convertible notes into 99.99% of the equity of Alvafig was authorized subject to compliance with certain new conditions. The initial two conditions that have already been met, and that going forward must be complied with on a continuous basis, were to make available, subject to certain conditions, our over the air channels to pay-TV operators on non-discriminatory terms (“must offer”) and that our pay-TV platforms carry upon request and subject to certain conditions, over the air channels operating in the same geographic zones where such pay-TV platforms provide their services (“must carry”). There are other conditions that have been met and that have to be met, which we believe we are complying with on a timely basis, including the termination of the Stockholder Trust which took place on June 17, 2009.

Grupo de Telecomunicaciones de Alta Capacidad, S.A.P.I. de C.V. On March 18, 2010, Telefónica Móviles de México, S.A. de C.V., Editora Factum and Megacable agreed to jointly participate, through a consortium, in the public bid for a pair of dark fiber wires held by the CFE. On June 9, 2010 the SCT granted the consortium a favorable award in the bidding process for a 20 year contract for the lease of 19,457 kilometers of dark fiber-optic capacity, along with a corresponding concession to operate a public telecommunications network using a new technology model known as power line communications, or PLC, and broadband over power lines communications, or BPL. The consortium, through GTAC, in which each of Telefónica, Editora Factum and Megacable has an equal equity participation, will pay Ps.883.8 million as consideration for the concession. GTAC plans to have the network ready to offer commercial services in approximately 18 months, and expects to invest close to an additional Ps.1.3 billion during the term of the lease to get the network ready for service. This new fiber optic network will represent for us a new alternative to access data transportation services, increasing competition in the Mexican telecommunications market and therefore improving the quality of the services offered. The fiber optic network will aim to increase broadband internet access for businesses as well as households in Mexico.

We have investments in several other businesses. See Notes 2 and 5 to our year-end financial statements.

DTH Joint Ventures

Background. In November 1995, we, along with Globopar, News Corp. and, at a later date, Liberty Media, agreed to form a number of joint ventures to develop and operate DTH satellite services for Latin America and the Caribbean basin.

We indirectly own interests in DTH satellite joint ventures in Mexico, Central America, and the Dominican Republic. No assurance can be given that the DTH joint venture we currently run or that we may own in the future will be successful.

For a description of capital contributions and loans we have made to date to those ventures, see “Operating and Financial Review and Prospects — Results of Operations — Liquidity, Foreign Exchange and Capital Resources — Capital Expenditures, Acquisitions and Investments, Distributions and Other Sources of Liquidity” and “Major Stockholders and Related Party Transactions — Related Party Transactions — Capital Contributions and Loans”.

We have also been developing channels exclusively for pay-TV broadcast. Through our relationship with DIRECTV, we expect that our DTH satellite service will continue to negotiate favorable terms for programming rights with both third parties in Mexico and with international suppliers from the United States, Europe and Latin America and elsewhere.

In December 2003, News Corp. acquired a 34% equity interest in DIRECTV, and transferred its ownership interest in DIRECTV to Fox Entertainment Group, Inc., an 82% owned subsidiary of News Corp. Innova’s Social Part Holders Agreement provides that neither we nor News Corp. nor DIRECTV may directly or indirectly operate or acquire an interest in any business that operates a DTH satellite system in Mexico, Central America and the Dominican Republic (subject to limited exceptions).

In October 2004, DIRECTV Mexico announced that it was shutting down its operations and we, Innova, News Corp., DIRECTV, Liberty Media and Globopar entered into a series of agreements relating to our DTH joint ventures. With respect to the DTH joint venture in Mexico:

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Innova and DIRECTV Mexico entered into a purchase and sale agreement, pursuant to which Innova agreed to purchase DIRECTV Mexico’s subscriber list for two promissory notes with an aggregate original principal amount of approximately Ps.665.7 million;

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Innova, Innova Holdings and News Corp. entered into an option agreement, pursuant to which News Corp. was granted options to acquire up to a 15% equity interest in each of Innova and Innova Holdings, dependent upon the number of subscribers successfully migrating to Innova, in exchange for the two promissory notes referred above that were delivered to DIRECTV Mexico;

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DIRECTV and News Corp. entered into a purchase agreement pursuant to which DIRECTV acquired (i) the right (which DIRECTV concurrently assigned to DTVLA) to purchase from News Corp. the options granted to News Corp. by Innova and Innova Holdings to purchase up to an additional 15% of the outstanding equity of each of such entities pursuant to the option agreement described above and (ii) the right to acquire News Corp.’s 30% interest in Innova and Innova Holdings;

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DIRECTV and Liberty Media, entered into a purchase agreement pursuant to which DIRECTV agreed to purchase all of Liberty Media’s 10% interest in Innova and Innova Holdings for U.S.$88.0 million in cash. DIRECTV agreed that we may purchase two-thirds (2/3) of any equity interest in Innova and Innova Holdings sold by Liberty Media; and

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we and Innova entered into a channel licensing agreement pursuant to which Innova will pay us a royalty fee to carry our over-the-air channels on its DTH service.

In February 2006, DIRECTV notified us that the DTH business operations of DIRECTV Mexico have ceased and the following transactions were completed:

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DIRECTV Holdings exercised its right to acquire News Corp.’s 30% interest in Innova and DTVLA exercised the right to purchase the options granted to News Corp. by Innova and Innova Holdings to purchase up to an additional 12% of the outstanding equity of each of such entities pursuant to the previously disclosed option agreement;

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DTVLA exercised an option to purchase 12% of Innova and Innova Holdings which was based on the number of subscribers successfully migrating to Innova, by delivering to Innova and Innova Holdings the two promissory notes issued in connection with Innova’s purchase of DIRECTV Mexico’s subscriber list for cancellation in October 2004;

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DIRECTV Mexico made cash payments to Innova totaling approximately U.S.$2.7 million pursuant to a letter agreement entered into by both parties in October 2004 in connection with the purchase of the DIRECTV Mexico’s subscriber list. The payments were made due to certain ineligible subscribers, applicable sign-up costs, and other costs under the side letter;

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DIRECTV Holdings purchased all of Liberty Media’s 10% interest in Innova. As described below, we exercised the right to acquire two-thirds of this 10% equity interest acquired from Liberty Media; and

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we entered into an amended and restated guaranty with PanAmSat Corporation (now Intelsat Corporation) pursuant to which the proportionate share of Innova’s transponder lease obligation guaranteed by us was to cover a percentage of the transponder lease obligations equal to our percentage ownership of Innova. As a result of our acquisition of two-thirds of the equity interests that from Liberty Media, the guarantee has been readjusted to cover a percentage of the transponder lease obligations equal to our percentage ownership of Innova.

On April 27, 2006 we acquired two-thirds of the equity interests that DIRECTV acquired from Liberty Media, therefore we and DIRECTV own 58.7% and 41.3%, respectively, of Innova’s equity.

On March 27, 2008 News Corp. and Liberty Media announced the closing of a series of transactions, including a transaction in which Liberty obtained a controlling stake in DIRECTV whereby News Corp. transferred to Liberty its 41% interest in DIRECTV’s outstanding shares. As of December 2008, after a series of transactions Liberty increased its economic ownership in DIRECTV to 53%.

Mexico and Central America. We operate “Sky”, our DTH satellite joint venture in Mexico, through Innova. We indirectly own 58.7% of this joint venture. As of December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009, Innova’s DTH satellite pay-TV service had approximately 1,585,100, 1,759,801, and 1,959,700 gross active subscribers, respectively. Innova primarily attributes its successful growth to its superior programming content, its exclusive transmission of sporting events such as soccer tournaments and special events such as reality shows, its high quality customer service and its nationwide distribution network with approximately 1,500 points of sale. In addition to the above, Innova also experienced growth during 2007, due to new subscribers from operations in Costa Rica and The Dominican Republic, during 2008, due to continuing growth in Central America and the addition of Nicaragua, Guatemala and Panama operations and during 2009 due mainly to continuing growth in Central America and the Dominican Republic. Sky continues to offer the highest quality and exclusive content in the Mexican pay-TV industry. Its programming packages combine our over-the-air channels with other DTH exclusive channels produced by News Corp.

During 2009, Sky offered exclusive content such as one out of every five soccer matches from the Mexican First Division 2009 Tournament, the widest coverage of the Spanish soccer league, the NFL Sunday Ticket, Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League and NBA PASS. Sky also added new channels to its lineup, such as TVC Platino, Teleformula, Cadena 3, Milenio TV, Telemundo and Baby TV. In addition to new programming contracts, Sky continues to operate under arrangements with a number of third party programming providers to provide additional channels to its subscribers. Sky also has arrangements with the major studios.

Until 2008, Sky offered 238 digital channels through five programming packages: Basic (87 video channels, 50 audio channels and 29 pay-per-view); Fun (133 video channels, 50 audio channels and 29 pay-per-view); Movie City (142 video channels, 50 audio channels and 29 pay-per-view); HBO/Max (146 video channels, 50 audio channels and 29 pay-per-view); and Universe (159 video channels, 50 audio channels and 29 pay-per-view) for a monthly fee of Ps.228.00, Ps.302.00, Ps.428.00, Ps.478.00 and Ps.618.00, respectively. The subscriber receives a “prompt payment” discount if the monthly subscription payment is made within 12 days after the billing date.

As of 2009, Sky also broadened its product offering by launching MiSky and VeTV, two new, lower-priced packages that are highly attractive to customers with lower budgets. MiSky is the first modular offering in Mexico that enables our clients to add thematic packages to a base package that includes 25 of the most watched channels. VeTV, a prepaid basis product, offers a low-cost package that includes the free-to-air channels as well as other pay-TV channels that appeal to the whole family.

Programming package monthly fees for residential subscribers, net of a prompt payment discount if the subscriber pays within 12 days of the billing date, are the following: Basic Ps.151.00, Fun Ps.267.00, Movie City Ps.381.00, HBO/Max Ps.431.00 and Universe Ps.571.00. Monthly fees for each programming package do not reflect a monthly rental fee in the amount of Ps.161.00 for the decoder necessary to receive the service (or Ps.148.00 if the subscriber pays within 12 days of the billing date) and a one-time installation fee which depends on the package and payment method.

Sky devotes 20 pay-per-view channels to family entertainment and movies and eight channels are devoted to adult entertainment. In addition, Sky assigns five extra channels exclusively for special events, known as Sky Events, which include concerts and sports. Sky provides some Sky Events at no additional cost while it sells others on a pay-per-view basis.

In order to more effectively compete against cable operators in the Mexican Pay-TV market, in September 2005, Sky launched the “Multiple Set-Top Box” concept, which allows its current and new subscribers to have up to four set-top boxes in their homes with independent programming on each TV. Sky also launched SKY+, a PVR set-top box, which enables its subscribers to record up to 120 hours of their favorite programs by programming dates and hours or selecting the program directly from the program guide.

The installation fee is based on the number of set up boxes and the method of payment chosen by the subscriber. The monthly cost consists of a programming fee plus a rental fee for each additional box.

Programming. We are a major source of programming content for our DTH joint venture and have granted our DTH joint venture DTH satellite service broadcast rights to all of our existing and future program services (including pay-per-view services on DTH), subject to some pre-existing third party agreements and other exceptions and conditions. Through its relationships with us and DIRECTV, we expect that the DTH satellite service in Mexico will be able to continue to negotiate favorable terms for programming both with third parties in Mexico and with international suppliers from the United States, Europe and Latin America. At the end of 2008, DISH, a new competitor in the DTH market, launched its services in Mexico and we are uncertain as to how DISH’s entry into the DTH market could affect our DTH business. At the beginning of 2009, HiTV, a television service which consists of the transmission of digital television channels through the technology known as DTT, started operating in Mexico City and its metropolitan area. HiTV currently offers approximately 20 channels, including Televisa’s digital over the air networks. The SCT and Cofetel are currently reviewing the legality of this service. We are uncertain as to how this service may affect our pay-TV business.

Univision

We have a number of programming arrangements with Univision, the leading Spanish-language media company in the United States, which owns and operates the Univision Network, the most-watched Spanish-language television network in the United States and the TeleFutura broadcast and Galavision satellite/cable television networks. Information regarding Univision’s business which appears in this annual report has been derived primarily from public filings made by Univision with the SEC and the FCC.

We previously owned shares and warrants representing an approximate 11.3% equity interest in Univision, on a fully diluted basis. On March 29, 2007, Univision was acquired by a group of investors, and, as a result, all of Televisa’s shares and warrants in Univision were cancelled and converted into cash in an aggregate amount of approximately U.S.$1,094.4 million. As a result of the closing of the acquisition of Univision, we lost our right to designate a member to the board of directors of Univision. Accordingly, our former designee to the board of directors of Univision, Ricardo Maldonado Yáñez, resigned from the board.

We have agreed to supply programming to Univision under a program license agreement or PLA that expires in December 2017 (unless earlier terminated), under which we granted Univision an exclusive license to broadcast in the United States, solely on the Univision Network, Galavision Network and TeleFutura Network, substantially all Spanish-language television programming, including programming with Spanish subtitles, for which we own the United States television broadcast rights, subject to exceptions, including certain co-productions, soccer games, and certain non-episodic and non-continuing programs. See “Operating and Financial Review and Prospects — Results of Operations — Total Segment Results — Programming Exports”. On January 22, 2009, the Company and Univision entered into an amendment to and restatement of the PLA. The amended and restated PLA, which still runs through 2017, includes a simplified royalty calculation. We are entitled to a royalty of 9.36% of a defined royalty base plus 2.02% of any excess of that royalty base over US$1.55 billion. The royalty base generally includes, on an accrual basis, net advertising revenue, net subscriber fee revenue, national representation commissions, joint marketing and sales agreements income and other revenues from the Univision Network, Galavision Network and Telefutura Network and Univision’s owned and operated television stations and Puerto Rico stations. In exchange for these programming royalties, regardless of the amount of our programming used by Univision, we have agreed that we will provide Univision with 8,531 hours of programming per year for the term of the PLA. See “Key Information — Risk Factors — Risk Factors Related to Our Business — Current Litigation We Are Engaged In With Univision May Affect Our Exploitation of Certain Internet Rights in the United States” for a description of our current disputes with Univision relating to our internet distribution rights. The foregoing description of the PLA is qualified in its entirety by the text of the PLA, as amended, which is incorporated by reference as exhibits 4.4, 4.5 and 4.18 hereto.

We and Univision entered into definitive agreements in April 2003 to commence a joint venture to introduce our satellite and cable pay-TV programming into the United States. The joint venture company, TuTv, commenced operations in the second quarter of 2003. It currently distributes five channels, including two of our existing movie channels and three channels featuring music videos, celebrity lifestyle and interviews and entertainment news programming, and will create future channels available in the United States that feature our programming. In May 2003, TuTv entered into a five-year distribution agreement with DISH Network Corporation, formerly EchoStar Communications Corporation, the third largest provider of Latino pay-TV programming in the U.S., for three of the five existing channels. In October 2008, TuTv extended this agreement through December 2012, and in relation to the extension launched the Mexican regional music network Bandamax as well as one more channel for a total of four. TuTv is jointly controlled by Univision and Televisa.

We have an international program rights agreement with Univision that requires Univision to grant us and Venevision the right to broadcast, outside the United States, programs produced by Univision for broadcast on the Univision Network or Galavision Network under this agreement. We have the exclusive right to broadcast, among others, certain programs that were being produced on October 2, 1996 (the “Grandfathered Programs”) in Mexico and Venevision has the exclusive right to broadcast these programs in Venezuela. We and Venevision each, have an undivided right to broadcast the Grandfathered Programs in all other territories (other than the United States, but including Puerto Rico). As for programs other than Grandfathered Programs (“New Programs”), we and Venevision have the exclusive broadcast and related merchandising rights for Mexico and Venezuela, respectively, but Univision retains all rights for the rest of the world. The rights to the Grandfathered Programs and New Programs granted to us will continue until the termination of the PLA and will then revert back to Univision.

The PLA entered into by the Company and Univision in January 2009 superseded the program license agreement with Univision whereby we granted Univision an exclusive right to broadcast our television programming in Puerto Rico, subject to some exceptions.

As a result of the closing of the acquisition of Univision, we are no longer bound by the provisions of the Participation Agreement, except in the case that we enter into certain transactions involving direct broadcast satellite or DTH satellite to the U.S. market. The Participation Agreement had formerly restricted our ability to enter into certain transactions involving Spanish-language television broadcasting and a Spanish-language television network in the U.S. without first offering Univision the opportunity to acquire a 50% economic interest. Subject to compliance with the limited restrictions of the surviving terms of the Participation Agreement and the terms of the PLA, we can now engage in business opportunities in the growing U.S. Hispanic marketplace relating to programming and other businesses without offering Univision participation in such opportunities. We are still engaged in litigation with Univision, as described in “Key Information — Risk Factors — Risk Factors Related to Our Business — Current Litigation We Are Engaged In With Univision May Affect Our Exploitation of Certain Internet Rights in the United States”, and “Additional Information — Legal Proceedings”.

In addition, on September 5, 2008, Televisa filed a Complaint for Declaratory Relief against Univision before the Superior Court of the State of California, for the County of Los Angeles, seeking a declaration of its rights vis-a-vis Univision with respect to the United States broadcast rights to home games of the Mexican League First Division soccer teams owned by Televisa (the “Soccer Complaint”). In the Soccer Complaint, Televisa sought a declaration that it has the legal right to broadcast in the United States, or license to third parties to broadcast in the United States, the home games of the Mexican League First Division soccer teams owned by Televisa. In September, 2008 Univision filed a Cross-Complaint against Televisa, alleging among other causes of action, a claim for declaratory relief that it retained the exclusive U.S. broadcast rights to home games of the Mexican League First Division soccer teams owned by Televisa under the terms of the Program License Agreement. On October 9, 2008, pursuant to an agreement between Televisa and Univision and an Order of the Court, Televisa submitted its Complaint for Declaratory Relief and Univision’s cause of action for declaratory relief to a private referee pursuant to a California code provision. Trial was held on November 11-12 2008, before the private referee, the Honorable Richard Neal (Ret.) of Judicial Arbitration Mediation Services (“JAMS”). On December 18, 2008 Justice Neal filed a Decision in Televisa’s favor whereby he resolved that Televisa was entitled to a declaration and judgment that Univision’s broadcast rights to home games of the Mexican League First Division soccer teams owned by Televisa expired on December 19, 2008 (the “Statement of Decision”). Univision dismissed with prejudice the other claims raised in its Cross-Complaint against Televisa. On June 4, 2009, Honorable Ernest M. Hiroshige, Judge of the Superior Court of the State of California, for the County of Los Angeles, adjudged and decreed a final judgment consistent with the Statement of Decision, in favor of Televisa.

Competition

We compete with various forms of media and entertainment companies in Mexico, both Mexican and non-Mexican.

Television Broadcasting

Our television stations compete for advertising revenues and for the services of recognized talent and qualified personnel with other television stations (including the stations owned by TV Azteca) in their markets, as well as with other advertising media, such as radio, newspapers, outdoor advertising, cable television and a multi-channel, multi-point distribution system, or MMDS, and DTH satellite services. We generally compete with 199 channels throughout Mexico, including the channels of our major competitor, TV Azteca, which owns and operates Channels 7 and 13 in Mexico City, which we believe are affiliated with 178 stations outside of Mexico City. Televisora del Valle de México owns the concession for Channel 40, a UHF channel that broadcasts in the Mexico City metropolitan area. Based upon IBOPE Mexico surveys, during 2007, 2008 and 2009 the combined average audience share throughout Mexico of both the Channel 7 and 13 networks was 31.0%, 28.8%, and 30.2%, respectively, during prime time, and 29.1%, 27.7%, and 29.2%% respectively, during sign-on to sign-off hours. See “— Television — Television Industry in Mexico”.

In addition to the foregoing channels, there are additional operating channels in Mexico with which we also compete, including Channel 11, which has 9 repeater stations, and Channel 22 in Mexico City, which are operated by the Mexican government. Our television stations are the leading television stations in their respective markets. See “— Television — Television Broadcasting”.

Our English and Spanish-language border stations compete with English and Spanish-language television stations in the United States, and our Spanish-language productions compete with other English and Spanish-language programs broadcast in the United States.

We are a major supplier of Spanish-language programming in the United States and throughout the world. We face competition from other international producers of Spanish-language programming and other types of programming.

Publishing

Each of our magazine publications competes for readership and advertising revenues with other magazines of a general character and with other forms of print and non-print media. Competition for advertising is based on circulation levels, reader demographics and advertising rates.

Cable and Telecom

According to the most recent information from CANITEC, there were approximately 1,408 cable concessions in Mexico as of December 31, 2009 serving approximately 5.1 million subscribers. Cablevisión, Cablemás and TVI compete with Innova, our DTH joint venture. See “— DTH Satellite Services”. Cablevisión also faces competition from Dish Mexico, a joint venture between MVS Comunicaciones and set-top provider EchoStar. Dish Mexico is a new DTH operator and competes in some segments against Cablevisión in Mexico City and the surrounding areas mainly driven by its Ps.149 basic package. Dish Mexico has been in operation for one year and offers 36 channels to its subscribers. Furthermore, since Cablevisión, Cablemás and TVI operate under non-exclusive franchises, other companies may obtain permission to build cable television systems, DTH, IPTV and MMDS systems in areas where they presently operate. In addition, pursuant to the Telecommunications Law, Cablevisión, Cablemás and TVI are required to provide access to their cable network to the extent it has available capacity on its network.

In addition, in connection with internet access services and other new products and multimedia communications services, cable operators, who were already authorized to provide bidirectional data and internet broadband services, have been authorized by the Mexican government to also provide voice services, including VoIP services.

On October 2, 2006, the Mexican federal government enacted a new set of regulations known as the Convergence Regulations. The Convergence Regulations allow certain concessionaires of telecommunications services to provide other services not included in their original concessions. Cable television providers may be allowed to provide internet and telephone services. In addition, telephone operators, such as Telmex, may be allowed to provide cable television services if certain requirements and conditions are met. We believe that we may face significant competition from new entrants providing telephony services, including cable television providers. See “Key Information — Risk Factors — Risk Factors Related to our Business — We Face Competition in Each of Our Markets That We Expect Will Intensify”.

As a result of the aforementioned, Cablevisión, Cablemás and TVI will face competition from several media and telecommunications companies throughout Mexico, including internet service providers, DTH services and other personal communications and telephone companies, including us and our affiliates.

Radio

The radio broadcast business is highly competitive in Mexico. Our radio stations compete with other radio stations in their respective markets, as well as with other advertising media, such as television, newspapers, magazines and outdoor advertising. Among our principal competitors in the radio broadcast business are Grupo Radio Centro, S.A. de C.V., which owns or operates approximately 100 radio stations throughout Mexico, 11 of which are located in Mexico City, and Grupo Acir, which owns or operates approximately 160 radio stations in Mexico, seven of which are located in Mexico City.

Competition for audience share in the radio broadcasting industry in Mexico occurs primarily in individual geographic markets. Our radio stations are located in highly competitive areas. However, the strength of the signals broadcast by a number of our stations enables them to reach a larger percentage of the radio audience outside the market areas served by their competitors.

Feature Film Production and Distribution

Production and distribution of feature films is a highly competitive business in Mexico. The various producers compete for the services of recognized talent and for film rights to scripts and other literary property. We compete with other feature film producers, Mexican and non-Mexican, and distributors in the distribution of films in Mexico. See “— Other Businesses — Feature Film Production and Distribution”. Our films also compete with other forms of entertainment and leisure time activities.

DTH Satellite Services

Innova presently competes with, or expects to compete with, among others, cable systems (including Cablevisión), MMDS systems, national broadcast networks (including our four networks), regional and local broadcast stations, other DTH concessions, unauthorized C-band and Ku-band television signals obtained by Mexican viewers on the gray market, radio, movie theaters, video rental stores, internet and other entertainment.

Consolidation in the entertainment and broadcast industries could further intensify competitive pressures. As the pay-TV market in Mexico matures, and as the offering of bundled services that include internet, data and telephony increases, Innova expects to face competition from an increasing number of sources. Emerging technologies that provide new services to pay-TV customers as well as new competitors in the DTH field or telecommunication players entering into video services would require us to make significant capital expenditures in new technologies.

In October 2008, DISH Mexico, a joint venture between MVS and DISH, a U.S. based DTH company operating with certain arrangements with Telmex, started operations in Mexico through a DTH concession. DISH currently operates nationwide.

At the beginning of 2009, HiTV, a television service which consists of the transmission of digital television channels through the technology known as DTT, started operating in Mexico City and its metropolitan area. HiTV currently offers approximately 20 channels, including Televisa’s digital over the air networks. The SCT and Cofetel are currently reviewing the legality of this service. We are uncertain as to how this service may affect our pay-TV business.

Gaming Business

Our principal competitors in the gaming industry are, with respect to bingo and sports halls, CIE and Grupo Caliente, and, with respect to Multijuegos, the governmental lotteries of Pronósticos and Lotería Nacional.

Regulation

Our business, activities and investments are subject to various Mexican federal, state and local statutes, rules, regulations, policies and procedures, which are constantly subject to change, and are affected by the actions of various Mexican federal, state and local governmental authorities. The material Mexican federal, state and local statutes, rules, regulations, policies and procedures to which our business, activities and investments are subject are summarized below. Station XETV, Tijuana, which broadcasts CW Network television programming in the San Diego television market, is also subject to certain regulatory requirements of the FCC, including the obligation to obtain permits for cross-border transmission of programming broadcast to the United States and to obtain licenses to operate microwave and/or satellite earth station transmitting equipment within the U.S. These summaries do not purport to be complete and should be read together with the full texts of the relevant statutes, rules, regulations, policies and procedures described therein.

Television

Mexican Television Regulations

Concessions. Mexico’s Federal Antitrust Law has been amended by Congress. The amendments to Mexico’s Federal Antitrust Law approved by the Mexican Federal Congress have been in full force and effect as of June 29, 2006. The amendments include, among other things, the following newly regulated activities: predatory pricing, exclusivity discounts, cross subsidization and any acts by an agent that result in cost increases or in the creation of obstacles in the production process of its competitors or the demand of the goods or services offered by such competitor. As of the date of this annual report, such amendments have not had a material adverse impact upon our business; however, we cannot predict how these amendments will impact our business in the future.

Certain amendments to the existing Radio and Television Law and the Telecommunications Law have been enacted. In May 2006, several members of the Senate of the Mexican Federal Congress filed a complaint before the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico, seeking a declaration that such amendments were unconstitutional and therefore null and void. This complaint was resolved by the Supreme Court of Justice on June 5, 2007, declaring several provisions of the amendments to the Radio and Television Law and to the Telecommunications Law unconstitutional and therefore null and void. Among the provisions declared as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Justice are the ones referred to in former Article 28 of the Radio and Television Law, pursuant to which holders of concessions had the ability to request authorization to provide additional telecommunications services within the same spectrum covered by a current concession without having to participate in a public bid therefor and Article 16 of the Radio and Television Law, pursuant to which concessions were granted for a fixed term of 20 years having the possibility to renew such concessions by obtaining from the SCT a certification of compliance with their obligations under the concession. As a result of the Supreme Court of Justice’s ruling, once the transition to digital television and digital radio broadcasting is completed, if we want to provide additional telecommunications services within the same spectrum granted for digital television or digital radio broadcasting, respectively, we will have to follow the provisions of Article 24 of the Telecommunications Law to obtain the concession therefor. Also, there is uncertainty as to how radio and television concessions will be renewed in the future, since the Supreme Court of Justice ruling has resulted in requiring the renewal of the concessions to be subject to a public bid process, with a right of preference over other participating bidders given to the incumbent concessionaire. Additionally, some members of the Mexican Federal Congress have expressed their intent to propose a new Radio and Television Law, which could affect, among other things, the framework for granting or renewing concessions. See “Key Information — Risk Factors — Risk Factors Related to Our Business — The Operation of Our Business May Be Terminated or Interrupted if the Mexican Government Does Not Renew or Revokes Our Broadcast or Other Concessions”. Also, either the SCT or the Federal Telecommunications Commission shall provide notice in the Diario Oficial de la Federación , or the Official Gazette of the Federation, of the call for bids and the available television frequencies, and make available the prerequisites for bids from interested parties for a maximum of 30 days.

The bidders shall comply with the following requirements:

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proof of Mexican nationality;

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submission of a business plan;

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submission of technical specifications and descriptions;

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submission of a plan for coverage;

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submission of an investment program;

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submission of a financial program;

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submission of plans for technical development and actualization;

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submission of plans for production and programming;

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receipt of a guaranty to ensure the continuation of the process until the concession is granted or denied; and

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a request for a favorable opinion from the Mexican Antitrust Commission.

Before granting the concession, the Federal Telecommunications Commission shall review the plans and programs submitted and the goals expressed by the bidder for consistency, as well as the results of the call for bids through the public auction. Within 30 days of the determination of a winning bid, such bidder has to provide proof of the required payment.

Television concessions may be granted for a term of up to 20 years.

If the SCT determines that (i) the bidders’ applications do not guarantee the best conditions for the rendering of radio and television services, or (ii) that the offered payment proposals are not sufficient, or, that (iii) the submitted applications do not fulfill the requirements established under the bidding call or the bidding bases, it may terminate the bidding process and not grant the concession to any of the applicants.

The SCT may void the grant of any television concession or terminate or revoke the concession at any time, upon the occurrence of, among others, the following events:

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failure to construct broadcasting facilities within a specified time period;

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changes in the location of the broadcasting facilities or changes in the frequency assigned without prior governmental authorization;

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direct or indirect transfer of the concession, the rights arising therefrom or ownership of the broadcasting facilities without prior governmental authorization;

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transfer or encumbrance, in whole or in part, of the concession, the rights arising therefrom, the broadcasting equipment or any assets dedicated to the concessionaire’s activities, to a foreign government, company or individual, or the admission of any such person as a partner in the concessionaire’s business;

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failure to broadcast for more than 60 days without reasonable justification;

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any amendment to the bylaws of the concessionaire that is in violation of applicable Mexican law; and

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any breach to the terms of the concession title.

None of our concessions has ever been revoked or otherwise terminated.

We believe that we have operated our television concessions substantially in compliance with their terms and applicable Mexican law. If a concession is revoked or terminated, the concessionaire could be required to forfeit to the Mexican government all of its assets or the Mexican government could have the right to purchase all the concessionaire’s assets. In our case, the assets of our licensee subsidiaries generally consist of transmitting facilities and antennas. See “Key Information — Risk Factors — Risk Factors Related to Our Business — The Operation of Our Business May Be Terminated or Interrupted if the Mexican Government Does Not Renew or Revokes Our Broadcast or Other Concessions”.

In July 2004, in connection with the adoption of a release issued by the SCT for the transition to digital television, all of our television concessions were renewed until 2021. DTH concessions expire in 2020 and 2026. The expiration dates for the concessions for our telephone services range from 2018 to 2026. See “Key Information — Risk Factors — Risk Factors Related to Mexico — Existing Mexican Laws and Regulations or Changes Thereto or the Imposition of New Ones May Negatively Affect Our Operations and Revenue”. We are unable to predict when we will obtain the renewal to such concessions. See “Key Information — Risk Factors — Risk Factors Related to Our Business — The Operation of Our Business May Be Terminated or Interrupted if the Mexican Government Does Not Renew or Revokes Our Broadcast or Other Concessions”.

Supervision of Operations. The SCT regularly inspects the television stations and the companies to which concessions have been granted must file annual reports with the SCT.

Television programming is subject to various regulations, including prohibitions on foul language and programming which is offensive or is against the national security or against public order. Under Mexican regulations, the Mexican Ministry of the Interior reviews most television programming and classifies the age group for which the programming is acceptable for viewing. Programs classified for adults may be broadcast only after 10:00 p.m.; programs classified for adults and teenagers over 15 years old may be broadcast only after 9:00 p.m.; programs classified for adults and teenagers under 15 years old may be broadcast only after 8:00 p.m.; and programs classified for all age groups may be shown at any time.

Television programming is required to promote Mexico’s cultural, social and ideological identity. Each concessionaire is also required to transmit each day, free of charge, up to 30 minutes of programming regarding cultural, educational, family counseling and other social matters using programming provided by the Mexican government. Historically, the Mexican government has not used a significant portion of this time.

Networks. There are no Mexican regulations regarding the ownership and operation of a television network, such as the Channel 2, 4, 5 and 9 networks, apart from the regulations applicable to operating a television station as described above.

Restrictions on Advertising. Mexican law regulates the type and content of advertising broadcast on television. Concessionaires may not broadcast misleading advertisements. Under current law, advertisements of alcoholic beverages (other than beer and wine) may be broadcast only after 10:00 p.m. As of January 20, 2004, advertisements for tobacco products are prohibited by amendment to the Ley General de Salud , or the Public Health Law. Advertising for alcoholic beverages must not be excessive and must be combined with general promotions of nutrition and general hygiene. The advertisements of some products and services, such as medicine and alcohol, require approval of the Mexican government prior to their broadcast. Moreover, the Mexican government must approve any advertisement of lotteries and other games.

No more than 18% of broadcast time may be used for advertisements on any day. The SCT approves the minimum advertising rates. There are no restrictions on maximum rates. See “Key Information — Risk Factors — Risk Factors Related to Mexico — Existing Mexican Laws and Regulations or Changes Thereto or the Imposition of New Ones May Negatively Affect Our Operations and Revenue”.

Broadcast Tax. Since 1969, radio and television stations have been subject to a tax which may be paid by granting the Mexican government the right to use 12.5% of all daily broadcast time. In October 2002, the 12.5% tax was replaced by the obligation to the Mexican government to provide up to 18 minutes per day of our television broadcast time and 35 minutes per day of our radio broadcast time between 6:00 a.m. and midnight, in each case distributed in an equitable and proportionate manner. Any time not used by the Mexican government on any day is forfeited. Generally, the Mexican government uses all or substantially all of the broadcast time available under this tax.

Foreign Ownership. Non-Mexican ownership of shares of Mexican enterprises is restricted in some economic sectors, including broadcast television, cable television, radio and DTH satellite services and certain telecommunications services. Under Mexico’s Ley de Inversión Extranjera , or Foreign Investment Law, the Radio and Television Law, and the Reglamento de la Ley de Inversión Extranjera , or the Foreign Investment Law Regulations, foreign investors may not vote the capital stock of Mexican broadcasting companies (other than through “neutral investment” mechanisms, such as through the CPOs held by certain of our stockholders). See “— Satellite Communications — Mexican Regulation of DTH Satellite Services”.

Radio

The regulations applicable to the operation of radio stations in Mexico are identical in all material respects to those applicable to television stations. The expiration dates of our radio concessions range from 2015 to 2016 except for the concessions of 3 radio stations, which renewal applications were timely filed before the SCT but are still pending due to the Supreme Court’s ruling on the amendments to the Radio and Television Law. (See “Key Information — Risk Factors — Risk Factors Related to Mexico — Existing Mexican Laws and Regulations or Changes Thereto or the Imposition of New Ones May Negatively Affect Our Operations and Revenue”). We are unable to predict when we will obtain the renewal to such concessions. See “— Television”, “— Other Businesses — Radio Stations” and “Key Information — Risk Factors — Risk Factors Related to Our Business — The Operation of Our Business May Be Terminated or Interrupted if the Mexican Government Does Not Renew or Revokes Our Broadcast or Other Concessions”.

Cable Television

Concessions. Cable television operators now apply for a public telecommunications network concession from the SCT in order to operate their networks and provide cable television services and other multimedia communications services. Applications are submitted to the SCT and, after a formal review process, a public telecommunications network concession is granted for an initial term of up to 30 years. Cablevisión obtained a telecommunications concession, which expires in 2029, and its Channel 46 Concession, which expires on November 17, 2010. We have filed for a renewal of the Channel 46 Concession and in February 2010, the SCT notified Cablevisión that the Channel 46 Concession will not be renewed. We have initiated legal actions against SCT’s notice seeking to obtain the renewal of such concession. Pursuant to its public telecommunications concession, Cablevisión can provide cable television, limited audio transmission services, specifically music programming, bidirectional internet access and unlimited data transmission services in Mexico City and surrounding areas in the State of Mexico. In addition, in May 2007 the SCT granted Cablevisión a concession allowing Cablevisión to provide local telephony services using the telephony public network. The scope of Cablevisión’s public telecommunications concession is much broader than the scope of its former cable television concession, which covered only cable television services and audio programming.

Cablemás operates under 49 concessions which cover 14 Mexican states. Through these concessions, Cablemás provides cable television services, internet access and bidirectional data transmission. Each concession granted by the SCT allows Cablemás to install and operate a public telecommunications network. The expiration dates for Cablemás’ concessions range from 2013 to 2039.

TVI operates under 4 concessions, which cover two Mexican states. Through these concessions, TVI provides cable television services, bidirectional data transmission and internet and telephony services. Each concession granted by the SCT allows TVI to install and operate a public telecommunications network. The expiration dates for TVI’s concessions range from 2015 to 2028.

A public telecommunications concession may be renewed upon its expiration, or revoked or terminated prior to its expiration in a variety of circumstances including:

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unauthorized interruption or termination of service;

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interference by the concessionaire with services provided by other operators;

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noncompliance with the terms and conditions of the public telecommunications concession;

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the concessionaire’s refusal to interconnect with other operators;

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loss of the concessionaire’s Mexican nationality;

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unauthorized assignment, transfer or encumbrance, in whole or in part, of the concession or any rights or assets;

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the liquidation or bankruptcy of the concessionaire; and

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ownership or control of the capital stock of the concessionaire by a foreign government.

In addition, the SCT may establish under any public telecommunications concession further events which could result in revocation of the concession. Under current Mexican laws and regulations, upon the expiration or termination of a public telecommunications concession, the Mexican government has the right to purchase those assets of the concessionaire that are directly related to the concession, at market value.

Cable television operators, including Cablevisión and Cablemás, are subject to the Telecommunications Law and, since February 2000, have been subject to the Reglamento del Servicio de Televisión y Audio Restringidos , or the Restricted Television and Audio Services Regulations. Under current Mexican law, cable television operators are classified as public telecommunications networks, and must conduct their business in accordance with Mexican laws and regulations applicable to public telecommunications networks which, in addition to the Telecommunications Law and the Restricted Television and Audio Services Regulations, includes the Radio and Television Law and the Reglamento de la Ley Federal de Radio y Televisión.

Under the applicable Mexican law, the Mexican government, through the SCT, may also temporarily seize or even expropriate all of a public telecommunications concessionaire’s assets in the event of a natural disaster, war, significant public disturbance or threats to internal peace and for other reasons related to preserving public order or for economic reasons. The Mexican government is obligated by Mexican law to compensate the concessionaire, both for the value of the assets seized and related profits.

Supervision of Operations. The SCT regularly inspects the operations of cable systems and cable television operators must file annual reports with the SCT.

Under Mexican law, programming broadcast on Cablevisión and Cablemás networks is not subject to judicial or administrative censorship. However, this programming is subject to various regulations, including prohibitions on foul language, programming which is against good manners and customs or programming which is against the national safety or against public order.

Mexican law also requires cable television operators, including Cablevisión and Cablemás, to broadcast programming that promotes Mexican culture, although cable television operators are not required to broadcast a specified amount of this type of programming.

In addition to broadcasting programming that promotes Mexican culture, cable television operators must also set aside a specified number of their channels, which number is based on the total number of channels they transmit, to transmit programming provided by the Mexican government.

Restrictions on Advertising. Mexican law restricts the type of advertising which may be broadcast on cable television. These restrictions are similar to those applicable to advertising broadcast on over-the-air Channels 2, 4, 5 and 9. See “— Regulation — Television — Mexican Television Regulations — Restrictions on Advertising”.

Government Participation. Pursuant to the terms of cable concessions, cable television operators through September 23, 1999, were required to pay, on a monthly basis, absent a waiver from the Mexican government, up to 15% of revenues derived from subscriber revenues and substantially all other revenues, including advertising revenues, to the Mexican government in exchange for use of the cable concession. Most cable concessionaires, including Cablevisión, obtained a waiver on an annual basis to pay 9% of their revenues as participation to the Mexican government, as opposed to 15%. Under the Federal Telecommunications Law and accompanying regulations, cable television operators with public telecommunications network concessions, including Cablevisión, no longer have to pay the Mexican government any percentage of their revenues.

Forfeiture of Assets. Under Mexican regulations, at the end of the term of a public telecommunications concession, assets of concessionaires may be purchased by the Mexican government at market value.

Telecom.

GTAC received a favorable award from the SCT in the recent dark fiber public bid on June 9, 2010. As a result, GTAC will operate one public telecommunications network concession that will be issued for a period of 20 years. The SCT is expected to issue the concession on July 5, 2010. Through this concession, GTAC will be able to lease from the CFE and exploit a portion of the CFE dark fiber network subject matter of the public bid process which range is 19,457 kilometers along different parts of Mexico. GTAC will offer a range of services including transportation services which will allow other telecommunications providers to offer competitive prices and quality services to end users.

Non-Mexican Ownership of Public Telecommunications Networks

Under current Mexican law, non-Mexicans may currently own up to 49% of the outstanding voting stock of Mexican companies with a public telecommunications concession. However, non-Mexicans may currently own up to all of the outstanding voting stock of Mexican companies with a public telecommunications concession to provide cellular telephone services, provided, that the requisite approvals are obtained from the Comisión Nacional de Inversiones Extranjeras , or the Foreign Investment Commission.

Application of Existing Regulatory Framework to Internet Access and IP Telephony Services

Cablevisión and Cablemás may be required, under Mexican law, to permit other concessionaires to connect their network to its network in a manner that enables its customers to choose the network by which the services are carried.

To the extent that a cable television operator has any available capacity on its network, as a public telecommunications network, Mexican law requires the operator to offer third party providers access to its network. Cablevisión and Cablemás currently do not have any capacity available on its network to offer to third party providers and do not expect that they will have capacity available in the future given the broad range of services they plan to provide over their networks.

Satellite Communications

Mexican Regulation of DTH Satellite Services. Concessions to broadcast DTH satellite services are for an initial term of up to 30 years, and are renewable for up to 30 years. We received a 30-year concession to operate DTH satellite services in Mexico utilizing SatMex satellites on May 24, 1996. On November 27, 2000, we received an additional 20-year concession to operate our DTH satellite service in Mexico using the PAS-9 satellite system, a foreign-owned satellite system.

Like a public telecommunications network concession, a DTH concession may be revoked or terminated by the SCT prior to the end of its term in certain circumstances, which for a DTH concession include:

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the failure to use the concession within 180 days after it was granted;

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a declaration of bankruptcy of the concessionaire;

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failure to comply with the obligations or conditions specified in the concession;

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unlawful assignments of, or encumbrances on, the concession; or

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failure to pay to the government the required fees.

At the termination of a concession, the Mexican government has the preemptive right to acquire the assets of a DTH satellite service concessionaire. In the event of a natural disaster, war, significant public disturbance or for reasons of public need or interest, the Mexican government may temporarily seize and expropriate all assets related to a concession, but must compensate the concessionaire for such seizure. The Mexican government may collect fees based on DTH satellite service revenues of a satellite concessionaire.

Under the Telecommunications Law, DTH satellite service concessionaires may freely set customer fees but must notify the SCT of the amount, except that if a concessionaire has substantial market power, the SCT may determine fees that may be charged by such concessionaire. The Telecommunications Law specifically prohibits cross-subsidies.

Non-Mexican investors may currently own up to 49% of full voting equity of DTH satellite system concessionaires; provided that Mexican investors maintain control of the operation. Foreign investors may increase their economic participation in the equity of a concessionaire through neutral investment mechanisms such as the CPO trust.

Regulation of DTH Satellite Services in Other Countries. Our current and proposed DTH joint ventures in other countries are and will be governed by laws, regulations and other restrictions of such countries, as well as treaties that such countries have entered into, regulating the delivery of communications signals to, or the uplink of signals from, such countries. In addition, the laws of some other countries establish restrictions on our ownership interest in some of these DTH joint ventures as well as restrictions on programming that may be broadcast by these DTH joint ventures.

Mexican Gaming Regulations

Pursuant to Mexico’s Federal Law of Games and Draws, or Ley Federal de Juegos y Sorteos , or Gaming Law, and its accompanying regulations, the Reglamento de la Ley Federal de Juegos y Sorteos , or Gaming Regulations, the Mexican Ministry of the Interior has the authority to permit the operation of all manner of games and lotteries that involve betting. This administrative authorization is defined as a permit under the Gaming Regulations. Under the Gaming Regulations, each permit establishes the terms for the operation of the respective activities authorized under the permit and the specific periods for operation of those activities. Permits for games and lotteries that involve betting have a maximum term of 25 years. The holder of the relevant permit must comply with all the terms provided in the permit, the Gaming Law and the Gaming Regulations. We were granted a Gaming Permit on May 25, 2005, which expires on May 24, 2030.

In 2004, the Chamber of Deputies of the Mexican Congress filed a complaint before the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico, seeking a declaration that the enactment of the Gaming Regulations was unconstitutional and, therefore, null and void. In January 2007, the Supreme Court of Justice declared the Gaming Regulations constitutional.

Mexican Antitrust Law

Mexico’s Federal Antitrust Law and the accompanying regulations, the Reglamento de la Ley Federal de Competencia Económica , may affect some of our activities, including our ability to introduce new products and services, enter into new or complementary businesses and complete acquisitions or joint ventures. In addition, Mexico’s Federal Antitrust Law and the accompanying regulations may adversely affect our ability to determine the rates we charge for our services and products. In addition, approval of the Mexican Antitrust Commission is required for us to acquire certain businesses or enter into certain joint ventures. See “Key Information — Risk Factors — Risk Factors Related to Mexico — Mexican Antitrust Laws May Limit Our Ability to Expand Through Acquisitions or Joint Ventures” and “— Existing Mexican Laws and Regulations or Changes Thereto or the Imposition of New Ones May Negatively Affect Our Operations and Revenue”.

The most recent amendments to Mexico’s Federal Antitrust Law, in full force as of June 29, 2006, include among other things the following newly regulated activities: predatory pricing, exclusivity discounts, cross subsidization, and any acts by an agent that result in cost increases or in the creation of obstacles in the production process of its competitors or the demand of the goods or services offered by such competitor.

Under the amendment, the review process of mergers and acquisitions by the Mexican Antitrust Commission is modified by:

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Raising the thresholds to make a concentration a reportable transaction.

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Empowering the Mexican Antitrust Commission to issue a waiting order before a reported transaction may be closed, if such order is issued within ten business days from the date the transaction is reported to the Mexican Antitrust Commission.

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Requiring the Mexican Antitrust Commission to rule upon a reported transaction that the filing party deems that it does not notoriously restrain competition (attaching the necessary evidence), within 15 business days from the filing date.

Additionally, the amendments provide for a significant enhancement of the Mexican Antitrust Commission authority:

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An overreaching authority to determine whether competition, effective competition, market power and competition conditions in a specific market exist or not, either such determination is required under the antitrust law or if required under any other statute that requires a determination of market conditions.

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To issue binding opinions in competition matters whether required by specific statutes, or required by other federal authorities. Such opinions shall also be issued in connection with decrees, regulations, governmental determinations and other governmental acts (such as public bid rules) which may have an anticompetitive effect.

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To issue an opinion related to effective competition conditions in a specific market or to the market power of a given agent in a market.

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To issue an opinion related to the granting of concessions, licenses or permits or the transfer of equity interests in concessionaries or licensees, are to be obtained if so required by the relevant statues or the bid rules.

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To perform visits to economic agents with the purpose of obtaining evidence of violations to the law, including the ability to obtain evidence of the incurrence of a vertical or horizontal restraint. In all cases, the Mexican Antitrust Commission must obtain a judicial subpoena in order to proceed with the visits. Any agent that is subject to such order is bound to allow such visits and to cooperate fully with the Mexican Antitrust Commission.

The amendments also provide for changes in the investigation process of possible illegal conducts.

Mexican Electoral Amendment

In 2007, the Mexican Federal Congress published an amendment to the Mexican Constitution, pursuant to which, among other things, the IFE has the exclusive right to manage and use the Official Broadcast Time. For a description of Official Television Broadcast Time and Official Radio Broadcast Time, see “Information of the Company — Business Overview — Business Strategy — Maintaining Our Leading Position in the Mexican Television Market — Advertising Sales Plan” and “Information of the Company — Business Overview — Other Businesses — Radio Stations”. The IFE has the exclusive right to use the Official Broadcast Time for its own purposes and for the use of political parties in Mexico (as provided in the Mexican Constitution) for self promotion and, when applicable, to promote their electoral campaigns during election day, pre-campaign and campaign periods.

The IFE and the political parties must comply with certain requirements included in the Constitutional Amendment for the use of Official Broadcast Time. During federal electoral periods, the IFE will be granted, per the Constitutional Amendment, 48 minutes per day in each radio station and television channel, to be used during pre-campaign periods in two and up to three minutes per broadcast hour in each radio station and television channel, of which all the political parties will be jointly entitled, to use one minute per broadcast hour. During campaign periods, at least 85% of the 48 minutes per day, shall be allocated among the political parties, and the remaining 15% may be used by the IFE for its own purposes. During non-electoral periods, the IFE will be assigned with up to 12% of the Official Broadcast Time, half of which shall be allocated among the political parties. In the event that local elections are held simultaneously with federal elections, the broadcast time granted to the IFE shall be used for the federal and the local elections. During any other local electoral periods, the allocation of broadcast time will be made pursuant to the criteria established by the Constitutional Amendment and as such criteria is reflected in applicable law.

In addition to the foregoing, pursuant to the Constitutional Amendment political parties are forbidden to purchase or acquire advertising time directly or through third parties, from radio or television stations; likewise, third parties shall not acquire advertising time from radio or television stations for the broadcasting of advertisements which may influence the electoral preferences of Mexican citizens, nor in favor or against political parties or candidates to offices elected by popular vote.

We believe we have been operating our business in compliance with the provisions of the Constitutional Amendment; however, we have filed legal actions contesting certain provisions of such Constitutional Amendment. We cannot predict the outcome of the legal actions brought by the Company against the Constitutional Amendment.

The IFE ruled that some of our subsidiaries infringed the Federal Code of Electoral Institutions and Procedures ( Código Federal de Instituciones y Procedimientos Electorales ). As a consequence thereof, the IFE imposed fines to such subsidiaries in an approximate amount of Ps. 21 million. The relevant subsidiaries challenged the resolutions and the fines before the Federal Electoral Court ( Tribunal Federal Electoral ). The Federal Electoral Court confirmed the rulings and the fines. Although we continue to disagree with the determination of the IFE and the Federal Electoral Court and have challenged the constitutionality of the Electoral Law, our respective subsidiaries paid such fines.

At this time, the Constitutional Amendment has not had an impact upon the results of our radio and television businesses, however we cannot predict what impact, if any, the Constitutional Amendment may have on our operating results in the future. A decrease in paid advertising of the nature described above could lead to a decrease in our television or radio revenues.

Property, Plant and Equipment

Broadcasting, Office and Production Facilities. Our properties consist primarily of broadcasting, production facilities, television and reporter stations, technical operations facilities, workshops, studios and office facilities, most of which are located in Mexico. We own most of our properties or lease offices and facilities through indirect wholly owned and majority owned subsidiaries. There are no major encumbrances on any of our properties, and we currently do not have any significant plans to construct any new properties or expand or improve our existing properties. Our principal offices, which we own, are located in Santa Fe, a suburb of Mexico City. Each of our television stations has individual transmission facilities located in Mexico, substantially all of which we own. Our television production operations are concentrated in four locations in Mexico City, 14 studios in San Angel, 12 studios located in Chapultepec, 3 studios in Santa Fe and 1 studio in Rojo Gomez. We own substantially all of these studios. The local television stations wholly or majority owned by us have in the aggregate 41 production studios. We own other properties used in connection with our operations, including a training center, technical operations facilities, studios, workshops, television and repeater stations, and office facilities. We beneficially own Azteca Stadium, which seats approximately 105,000 people, through a trust arrangement that was renewed in 1993 for a term of 30 years and that may be extended for additional periods. In the aggregate, these properties, excluding Azteca Stadium, currently represent approximately 5.2 million square feet of space, of which over 3.7 million square feet are located in Mexico City and the surrounding areas, and approximately 1.5 million square feet are located outside of Mexico City and the surrounding areas.

Our cable television, radio, publishing and Mexican DTH satellite service businesses are located in Mexico City. We also own the transmission and production equipment and facilities of our radio stations located outside Mexico City.

We also own or lease over a total of 537,865 square feet in properties in the United States, Latin America, Spain and Switzerland in connection with our operations there. We own or lease all of these properties through indirect wholly owned and majority owned subsidiaries. The following table summarizes our real estate and lease agreements in the United States, Latin America, Spain and Switzerland.

Satellites. We currently use transponder capacity on seven satellites: Satmex V, which reaches Mexico, the United States, Latin America, except Brazil, and the Caribbean; Solidaridad II, which reaches only Mexico; Intelsat IS-11, replacement of PAS 3-R (renamed in February 2007 IS-3R) started operations in July 2009, Intelsat IS-11 reaches North America, Western Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean; Galaxy 16 (formerly Galaxy IVR), which reaches Mexico, the U.S. and Canada; IS-905 which reaches Western and Eastern Europe; IS-9 which reaches Central America, Mexico, the Southern United States and the Caribbean and IS-16 which reaches Central America, Mexico, the Southern United States and the Caribbean. The Intelsat IS-9 (formerly PAS-9) satellite is currently in operation, Intelsat reported that IS-9’s estimated end of life has been reduced to October 2012. In March 2010, Sky reached an agreement with a subsidiary of Intelsat to lease 24 transponders on Intelsat IS-21 satellite which will be mainly used for signal reception and retransmission services over the satellite’s estimated 15-year service life. IS-21 satellite intends to replace Intelsat IS-9 as sky’s primary transmission satellite and is currently expected to start service in the fourth quarter of 2012. On April 1, 2010 Intelsat released IS-16 satellite, where Sky has additional twelve transponders to deliver new DTH-HD channels and more DTH SD channels; also this satellite is a back-up satellite for our DTH joint venture operations. For a description of guarantees related to our DTH joint venture transponder obligations, see Note 11 to our year-end financial statements.

On September 20, 1996, PanAmSat (now Intelsat), our primary satellite service provider, agreed to provide U.S. transponder service on three to five PAS-3R Ku-band transponders, at least three of which were intended to be for the delivery of DTH satellite services to Spain. Under the PAS-3R transponder contract, as amended, we were required to pay for five transponders at an annual fee for each transponder of U.S.$3.1 million. We currently have available transponder capacity on two 36 MHz C-band transponders on Galaxy 16 (formerly, Galaxy IVR), which reaches Mexico, the United States and Canada, due to an exchange with three of the five 54 MHz Ku-band transponders on PAS-3R described above. Until April 2010, for each of the 36 MHz C-band transponders we paid an annual fee of approximately U.S.$3.7 million. Subsequent to April 2010, the annual fee for the 36 MHz C-band transponders will be approximately U.S.$1.3 million.

In December 2005, we signed an extension with PanAmSat, for the use of three transponders on PAS-3R satellite until 2009 and 2012 and two transponders in Galaxy IVR (replaced by Galaxy 16) satellite until 2016.

PanAmSat and DIRECTV announced the completion of the sale of PanAmSat on August 20, 2004, to affiliates of Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co. L.P., The Carlyle Group and Providence Equity Partners, Inc.

On June 19, 2006, the FCC announced that it had approved the merger of Intelsat, Ltd., or Intelsat, with PanAmSat Holding Corporation, or PanAmSat. Intelsat and PanAmSat announced the conclusion of their merger transaction on July 3, 2006. Previously, on August 29, 2005, Intelsat and PanAmSat announced the merger of both companies by means of an acquisition of PanAmSat by Intelsat, creating a world-class communications solution provider.

On August 14, 2006, Televisa’s main network broadcast operation was successfully relocated from satellite Galaxy IVR to Galaxy 16. Televisa’s broadcast was formerly conducted through Galaxy IVR, which experienced an irreparable damage that shortened its expected operational life.

On February 1, 2007, Intelsat renamed some of their satellite fleet recently acquired with the merger with PanAmSat: current names for PAS-9 and PAS-3R are IS-9 and IS-3R, respectively. Intelsat kept the name of Galaxy 16. In December 2007, Innova and Sky Brasil reached an agreement with Intelsat Corporation and Intelsat LLC to build and launch a new 24-transponder satellite, IS-16, for which service will be dedicated to Sky and Sky Brasil over the satellite’s estimated 15-year life. The satellite was manufactured by Orbital Sciences Corporation and was successfully launched in February 2010 and started operations in April 2010.

On August 3, 2009, the contract on two remaining transponders of the IS-3R satellite expired (end of life of the satellite). Televisa negotiated a new contract for a new transponder on the IS-905 satellite until August 31, 2012, for the distribution of our content in Europe.

With several new domestic and international satellites having been launched recently, and with several others scheduled for launch in the next few years, including those scheduled for launch by the new Intelsat company, we believe that we will be able to secure satellite capacity to meet our needs in the future, although no assurance can be given in this regard.

Insurance. We maintain comprehensive insurance coverage for our offices, equipment and other property, subject to some limitations, that result from a business interruption due to natural disasters or other similar events, however, we do not maintain business interruption insurance for our DTH business in case of loss of satellite transmission.

Item 5. Operating and Financial Review and Prospects

You should read the following discussion together with our year-end financial statements and the accompanying notes, which appear elsewhere in this annual report. This annual report contains forward-looking statements that reflect our plans, estimates and beliefs. Our actual results could differ materially from those discussed in these forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to these differences include, but are not limited to, those discussed below and elsewhere in this annual report, particularly in “Key Information — Risk Factors”. In addition to the other information in this annual report, investors should consider carefully the following discussion and the information set forth under “Key Information — Risk Factors” before evaluating us and our business.

Preparation of Financial Statements

Our year-end financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Mexican FRS, which differ in some significant respects from U.S. GAAP. Note 23 to our year-end financial statements describes certain differences between Mexican FRS and U.S. GAAP as they relate to us through December 31, 2009. Note 23 to our year-end financial statements provides a reconciliation to U.S. GAAP of net income and total stockholders’ equity. Note 23 to our year-end financial statements also presents all other disclosures required by U.S. GAAP, as well as condensed financial statement data.

As required by Mexican FRS, beginning on January 1, 2008, we discontinued recognizing the effects of inflation in our financial information. Accordingly, our financial statements as of December 31, 2007 and for the year ended on that date are stated in Mexican Pesos in purchasing power as of December 31, 2007. The financial information as of and for the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2009 are not directly comparable to prior periods due to the recognition of inflation effects in financial information in prior periods. Our financial information for the years ended December 31, 2008 and December 31, 2009 maintained the inflation adjustments recognized in prior years in our consolidated stockholders’ equity, and the inflation-adjusted amounts for nonmonetary assets and liabilities at December 31, 2007 became the accounting basis for those assets and liabilities beginning on January 1, 2008 and for subsequent periods. In discussing results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2008 compared to the year ended December 31, 2007, we have provided below in the discussion of line items a percentage increase in certain 2007 line items that reflects the impact the inflation adjustment had when applying inflation accounting to that line item in 2007.

Results of Operations

The following tables set forth our results of operations data for the indicated periods as a percentage of net sales:

Summary of Business Segment Results

The following table sets forth the net sales and operating segment income (loss) of each of our business segments and intersegment sales, corporate expenses and depreciation and amortization for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009. In 2003, we adopted the provisions of Bulletin B-5, “Financial Information by Segments” issued by the Mexican Institute of Public Accountants, or MIPA. This standard requires us to look to our internal organizational structure and reporting system to identify our business segments. In accordance with this standard, we currently classify our operations into seven business segments: Television Broadcasting, Pay Television Networks, Programming Exports, Publishing, Sky, Cable and Telecom, and Other Businesses. In 2007, we changed the names of two of our segments — “Sky Mexico” to “Sky”, because we began operations in Central America and the Dominican Republic, and “Cable Television” to “Cable and Telecom” due to the consolidation of Bestel, a telecommunication company, into this segment. Beginning in 2007 “Radio” was classified into the “Other Businesses” segment and beginning in the third quarter of 2008 “Publishing Distribution” was classified into the “Other Businesses” segment since its operations were no longer significant to the Company’s consolidated financial statements taken as a whole. See “— Recently Issued Mexican Financial Reporting Standards” and Note 1(t) to our year-end financial statements. We have restated our segment results for the prior periods to reflect these changes in segment reporting. Our results for 2008 and 2009, include Cablemás, a significant cable operator in Mexico, in the “Cable and Telecom” segment. Effective June 1, 2008 and October 1, 2009, we began consolidating the assets, liabilities and results of operations of Cablemás and TVI, respectively, in our consolidated financial statements. See Note 2 to our year-end financial statements. In discussing results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2008 compared to the year ended December 31, 2007, we have provided below in the discussion of line items a percentage increase in certain 2007 line items that reflects the impact the inflation adjustment had when applying inflation accounting to that line item in 2007.