Revenues Up 17 Percent at TV Azteca

MEXICO CITY, July 25: For the second quarter of this year,
TV Azteca delivered revenues of Ps.2,653 million ($243.1 million) and a profit
of Ps.655 million ($60 million), a 28-percent gain on the year-ago period.

“Outstanding revenue this quarter reflects solid sales in
the domestic and in the U.S. Hispanic markets, where we generate top quality
content and increasingly competitive programming grids,” said Mario San Roman,
the CEO of TV Azteca. “On the strategic front, we made further progress on our
cash-usage plan, with a distribution to shareholders of US$68 million this
period, accumulating distributions of US$473 million in three years.”

Azteca America reported revenues of Ps.106 million ($9.7
million), a 22-percent increase. Programming sales revenues, however, fell to
Ps. 24 million ($2.2 million) from Ps.35 million.