Entravision Appoints Maria Lopez-Knowles to Chief Marketing Officer

SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Entravision Communications Corporation (NYSE: EVC), a diversified media company serving Latino audiences and communities, today announced that it has promoted María Lopez-Knowles from Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of its Pulpo Media business unit to the newly created position of CMO of Entravision.

Lopez-Knowles will oversee Entravision's multimedia marketing efforts across its diverse broadcast, radio and digital properties, as well as develop and manage Entravision's corporate marketing strategy in order to achieve the company's strategic objectives. Lopez-Knowles will report directly to Walter F. Ulloa, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Entravision.

"We're pleased that Maria will expand her role at Entravision and lead our marketing efforts," says Ulloa. "Her strong foundation in multicultural segmentation and in-depth Latino market insights across generations brings a unique skill set to this role. María's over 30 years of advertising and marketing expertise make her the ideal candidate to further strengthen Entravision's integrated approach to our marketing and digital businesses."

Entravision's Pulpo division is a data-driven platform offering hyper-specific segmentation, personalized messaging, programmatic execution and in-depth analytics to marketers using its world-class proprietary technology. Pulpo is ranked by comScore Media Metrix® as #1 in Hispanic Reach based on its Hispanic Ad Focus (#1 with Spanish Dominant, Bilingual, and English dominant Hispanics, respectively) and #1 in comScore's new Bicultural Audience Network category. Entravision offers advertisers a one-stop solution that leverages Latino-focused television and radio properties, Hispanic Big Data and Analytics (Luminar), and Pulpo's digital network.

"I am thrilled to increase my engagement across the Entravision organization," says Lopez-Knowles. "Entravision's understanding of the Latino market, and its commitment to embracing all segments of our Hispanic community, across all available media, is unparalleled in the industry. I share Entravision's vision and passion and look forward to evolving the brand and its offerings, to better serve both our advertisers and the Latino market in its entirety."

Lopez-Knowles was previously a Pulpo Advisory Board member and joined Pulpo Media full time in August 2013 as CMO in charge of Marketing and Sales Planning. Before Pulpo, Lopez-Knowles served as President of GlobalHue Latino, a leading multicultural agency, and prior to that was at McCann Worldgroup (an Interpublic Company), where she founded and led a division of its MRM (McCann Relationship Marketing) Unit, exclusively focused on targeting acculturated Hispanics digitally. Lopez-Knowles has been the recipient of the ADCOLOR^® Innovator award.  A graduate of Loyola University of the South, and the University of New Orleans, she holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology and a graduate degree in Mass Communications, with a specialty in Film and Television.  She is a second-generation Hispanic and is bilingual and bicultural.

About Entravision Communications Corporation
Entravision Communications Corporation is a diversified media company serving Latino audiences and communities with an integrated platform of solutions and services that includes television, radio, digital media and data analytics to reach Latino audiences across the United States and Latin America. Entravision has 58 primary television stations, including in 20 of the nation's top 50 Latino markets, and is the largest affiliate group of both the top-ranked Univision television network and Univision's UniMás network. Entravision also operates one of the nation's largest groups of primarily Spanish-language radio stations, consisting of 49 owned and operated radio stations, and Entravision Solutions, a national sales representation and marketing organization specializing in Spanish-language media platforms and radio networks. Entravision also offers a variety of digital media platforms and services, including digital content, digital advertising platforms, including the #1-ranked online advertising platform in Hispanic reach, and data analytics solutions designed to maximize the opportunity for advertisers and marketers to connect with the growing Latino consumer market. Entravision shares of Class A Common Stock are traded on The New York Stock Exchange under the symbol: EVC.

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