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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

(Mark One)

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004

OR

For the transition period from              to             

Commission file number 333-100330

LBI MEDIA, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (818) 563-5722

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

None

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:

None

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  x    No  ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an accelerated filer (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).     Yes  ¨    No  x

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K  x

As of March 30, 2005, no shares of LBI Media, Inc.’s voting stock were held by non-affiliates.

As of March 30, 2005, there were 100 shares of common stock, $0.01 par value per share, of LBI Media, Inc. issued and outstanding.

Documents Incorporated by Reference: None.

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PART I

ITEM 1. BUSINESS

Market data and other statistical information included in this Business section are based on industry publications, government publications and reports by market research firms or other published independent sources, including the United States Census Bureau, Arbitron and Nielsen surveys, Hispanic Business, Inc. and Television Bureau Advertising (TVB).

Overview

We are one of the largest owners and operators of Spanish-language radio and television stations in the United States based on revenues and number of stations. We own 16 radio stations (ten FM and six AM) and four television stations in Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and San Diego, the first, fourth, sixth and thirteenth largest Hispanic markets in the United States, respectively, based on Hispanic television households. We operate radio and television stations in markets that comprise approximately 28% of the U.S. Hispanic population.

Our Los Angeles cluster consists of five Spanish-language radio stations, one AM radio station with time-brokered programming and a television station. Our Houston cluster consists of seven Spanish-language radio stations, two AM radio stations with time-brokered programming and a television station. Our Dallas-Fort Worth cluster consists of one radio station and one television station. We also own a television station serving San Diego, California. In addition, we operate a television production facility, Empire Burbank Studios, in Burbank, California that we primarily use to produce most of our television programming, and we have television production facilities in Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth that will allow us to produce local programming for those markets.

We seek to own and operate radio and television stations in the nation’s largest and most densely populated Hispanic markets. Our strategy is to increase revenue and cash flow in our markets by reformatting acquired stations with locally focused programming, providing creative advertising solutions for clients, executing targeted marketing campaigns to develop a local audience and implementing strict cost controls. We had a substantial debt balance of $282.0 million at December 31, 2004.

Liberman Broadcasting, Inc., a Delaware corporation, currently has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-112773) for the initial public offering of its Class A common stock. Immediately before the anticipated offering, Liberman Broadcasting, Inc. will merge with our indirect parent, LBI Holdings, I, Inc., a California corporation. Liberman Broadcasting, Inc. will survive the merger and effectively reincorporate our indirect parent into a Delaware corporation. In this annual report, “Liberman Broadcasting” refers to LBI Holdings I, Inc. before the merger and Liberman Broadcasting, Inc. after the merger, each on an unconsolidated basis. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we can provide no assurance that the anticipated initial public offering will be consummated in the near future, or at all.

Operating Strategy

The principal components of our operating strategy are set forth below:

Develop popular stations by targeting the local community

Not all Hispanics have the same cultural and ethnic backgrounds. As a result, we create radio and television programming specifically tailored to the preferences of the Hispanic populations living in our markets to create a highly recognizable local station identity. We believe that we are particularly adept at programming to the tastes and preferences of the Hispanics of Mexican heritage, which comprise 81%, 81%, 87% and 88% of the Hispanic populations in Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and San Diego, respectively, according to a 2003 survey by the U.S. Census Bureau. We believe our ability to produce locally targeted programming gives us an advantage over most other Spanish-language broadcasters that develop and distribute their programming on a national or regional basis and, as a result, we have generally been able to achieve and maintain strong station ratings in our markets.

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Cross-promote our radio and television stations

We utilize a portion of our commercial inventory time at both our radio and television stations to run advertisements promoting our other stations and programming, which helps us capitalize on the strong ratings and targeted audience of our stations with no incremental cash outlay. In addition, we utilize our radio and television stations to create complementary programs that attract our radio listeners to our television programs and our television viewers to our radio stations. For example, in Los Angeles and Houston, we produce music variety television shows hosted by our radio station disc jockeys that feature music industry news, interviews and videos of songs played on our popular radio stations in those markets.

Capitalize on our complementary radio and television stations to capture a greater share of advertising revenue

We create cross-selling opportunities by offering our advertisers a customized package that allows them to cross-advertise on radio and television, as well as to cross-merchandise through product integration in our programming. This allows us to effectively compete for a significant portion of an advertiser’s Hispanic budget since advertisers have historically spent over 80% of these budgets on radio and television. We believe that we are able to capture a larger share of advertising revenues in our markets because of our ability to cross-sell and cross-promote our radio and television stations.

Develop a diverse local advertiser base

Consistent with our locally targeted programming strategy, our sales strategy is focused on establishing direct relationships with the local advertising community. Local advertising accounted for approximately 84% of our gross advertising revenue in 2004. We believe that local advertisers are more responsive to Hispanic advertising opportunities in our markets. Other advantages of our locally focused sales strategy include:

Offer cost-effective advertising and value-added services to our advertisers

We believe that we differentiate ourselves from other Spanish-language broadcasters by offering advertisers the greatest value for their advertising dollar. By supporting advertisers’ media campaigns with creative promotions and offering our studio facilities to provide value-added services, we are able to cross-sell our broadcasting properties and attract new customers currently not advertising on radio or television. As a result, we have been able to significantly increase our advertiser base.

Utilize cost-effective television programming to drive cash flow growth

Our television programming consists of both internally produced and purchased programming which creates a compelling programming line-up for our television stations. Our in-house television production facilities provide us with an efficient cost structure to create programming, such as our popular talk show José Luis Sin Censura, our reality-based programs Buscando Amor and Gana La Verde and our scripted dramas Secretos and Divorcio USA. In addition, we realize programming synergies between our radio and television assets by featuring our radio formats and on-air radio personalities in our television programming. Furthermore, we supplement our internally produced programming with purchased programs, primarily Spanish-language movies, which we obtain from numerous producers in Latin America. As we acquire additional television stations, we are able to further leverage our programming library across a broader base of stations, thereby potentially increasing our profitability.

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Acquisition Strategy

Our acquisition strategy focuses on identifying and acquiring selected assets of radio and television stations in the largest, most densely populated and fastest growing U.S. Hispanic markets to build market-leading Hispanic radio and television clusters. Although these stations often do not target the local Hispanic market at the time of acquisition, we believe they can be successfully reformatted to capture this audience. In analyzing our acquisition opportunities, we consider the following criteria for a station:

We have built a long-term track record of acquiring and developing underperforming radio and television stations that has enabled us to achieve significant increases in our net revenue over the past decade. Since our founding in 1987, we have developed 16 Spanish-language, start-up radio and television stations by reformatting acquired stations with locally focused programming, providing creative advertising solutions for clients, executing targeted marketing campaigns to develop a local audience and implementing strict cost controls. For example, we entered the Houston market in March 2001 and within two and one-half years, we built the second-highest rated Hispanic radio station group and the second-highest rated Hispanic television station in that market. We believe that our record of successfully executing our acquisition strategy in new Hispanic markets will position us to continue creating top-ranked Hispanic station groups in other Hispanic markets. On January 12, 2004, we entered the Dallas-Fort Worth market with the acquisition of selected assets of KMPX-TV for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $37.6 million (including acquisition costs). In addition, on July 20, 2004, we completed the acquisition of the selected assets of a Dallas-Fort Worth radio station for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $16.1 million (including acquisition costs).

Hispanic Market Opportunity

We believe the Hispanic community represents an attractive market for future growth. In 2003, the U.S. Hispanic population was the largest minority group in the United States and, from 2000 to 2003, it was the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population, growing at approximately seven times the rate of the non-Hispanic U.S. population, as reported by the U.S. Census Bureau. The U.S. Hispanic population grew 9.8% from April 2000 to July 2002, accounting for 50% of all U.S. population growth during this period, and is expected to reach approximately 43.7 million people, or 15% of the total U.S. population, by 2010 according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

In addition, advertisers have begun to direct more advertising dollars towards U.S. Hispanics and, consequently, Spanish-language radio and television advertising has grown at more than twice the rate of total radio and television advertising from 1998 to 2003. Spanish-language advertising rates have been rising faster in recent years when compared to the general media, yet these rates are still lower than those for English-language media. As advertisers continue to recognize the buying power of the U.S. Hispanic population, especially in areas where the concentration of Hispanics is very high and where a growing percentage of the retail purchases are made by Hispanic customers, we expect the gap in advertising rates between Spanish-language and English-language media to narrow. As U.S. Hispanic consumer spending continues to grow relative to overall consumer spending, industry analysts expect that advertising expenditures targeted to Hispanics will increase significantly, eventually closing the gap between the current level of advertising targeted to Hispanic station audiences and the current level of advertising targeted to general market station audiences.

We believe we are well positioned to capitalize on the growing Hispanic advertising market given the concentration of the Hispanic population in certain markets in the United States, our attractive position in three of the six largest Hispanic markets in the United States based on Hispanic television households, Los Angeles, Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth, and our record of successfully executing our acquisition strategy in new Hispanic markets.

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Our Markets

The following table sets forth certain demographic information about the markets in which our radio and television stations operate.

Our Radio and Television Stations

The following tables set forth certain information about our radio and television stations and their broadcast markets.

Radio Stations

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Television Stations

Source: Nielsen Media Research, January, 2005

Programming

Radio. Our Spanish-language radio stations are targeted to the Spanish-speaking portion of the Hispanic population that is dominant in the local markets in which we operate. We tailor the format of each of our radio stations to reach a specific target demographic in order to maximize our overall listener base without causing direct

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format competition among our stations. We determine the optimal format for each of our stations based upon extensive local market research. To create brand awareness and loyalty in the local community, we seek to enhance our market positions by sending on-air talent to participate in local promotional activities, such as concerts and live special events or promotions at client locations and other street level activities. These types of events also provide attractive promotional and advertising opportunities for our clients. We also promote our radio stations in our television programming airing in these markets.

The following provides a brief description of our Spanish-language radio station formats:

Our newly acquired Dallas-Fort Worth radio station, KNOR-FM, currently plays an English-language hip hop music format. We plan to convert KNOR-FM into one of our Spanish-language formats once we have completed construction of a new tower site.

Three of our radio stations are operated by third parties under time brokered agreements. Our time brokered stations are a source of stable cash flow given that they are typically operated under long-term contracts with annual price escalators, and we do not incur any of the programming costs associated with these stations. Currently, stations KVNR-AM in the Los Angeles market and KJOJ-AM in the Houston market broadcast Vietnamese-language programming. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, Los Angeles and Houston represent the first- and third-largest Vietnamese markets, respectively, in the United States. KSEV-AM in Houston broadcasts an English-language talk format.

Television. Our programming content consists primarily of internally produced programs such as single topic talk shows, reality dating shows, local news, and musical variety shows, as well as purchased programs including Spanish-language movies. We own or have the rights to a library of more than 3,200 hours of Spanish-language movies, children’s shows and other programming content available for broadcast on our television stations.

We seek to maximize our television group’s profitability by broadcasting internally produced Spanish-language programming, marketing commercial time to advertisers and selling infomercial advertising.

Production Facilities

We own Empire Burbank Studios, a fully equipped television production complex next to our corporate offices in Burbank, California. The studio provides us with all of the physical facilities needed to produce our own Spanish-language television programming without the variable expense of renting these services from an outside vendor. We believe this enables us to produce our programming at a very low cost relative to our competitors.

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Owning our own production facilities also enables us to control the content of the programs we produce on air. During 2004, we produced the following Spanish-language programs at our Burbank facilities:

In addition, we produce La Raza TV, a music-oriented variety show centered around Norteña music played by our KTJM-FM/KJOJ-FM (La Raza) radio station, in Houston. The show airs on KZJL-TV and KMPX-TV weekdays from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM.

We sell three of our shows, El Show de María Laria, José Luis Sin Censura and Buscando Amor, to independent broadcasters outside of our markets which allows us to recoup a portion of the production costs. We also periodically lease space in our Empire Burbank Studios to third parties which offsets a portion of the cost associated with that facility.

We have moved into new studios and production facilities in Houston and Dallas, enabling us to produce local programming. We plan to begin producing additional local programming in the Houston and Dallas markets in 2005.

Sales and Advertising

Most of our net revenues are generated from the sale of local, regional and national advertising for broadcast on our radio and television stations. For the year ended December 31, 2004, approximately 84% of our gross advertising revenues were generated from the sale of local advertising and approximately 16% of our gross

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advertising revenues were generated from the sale of regional and national advertising. Local sales are made by our sales staff located in Los Angeles, Orange County, Houston, and Dallas. National sales are made by our national sales representative, Spanish Media Rep Team, Inc., an affiliate of our two principal stockholders, in exchange for a commission from us that was based on a percentage of our net revenues from the national advertising sold. We intend to consolidate SMRT’s operations into our operations within the next year on terms we believe will be on an arm’s length basis.

We believe that advertisers can reach the Hispanic community more cost effectively through radio and television broadcasting than through printed advertisements. Advertising rates charged by radio and television stations are based primarily on:

A radio or television station’s listenership or viewership is reflected in ratings surveys that estimate the number of listeners or viewers tuned to the station. Each station’s ratings are used by its advertisers to consider advertising with the radio or television station and are used by us to, among other things, chart audience growth, set advertising rates and adjust programming.

Competition

Radio and television broadcasting are highly competitive businesses. The financial success of each of our radio and television stations depends in large part on our ability to increase our market share of the available advertising revenue, the economic health of the market and our audience ratings. In addition, our advertising revenue depends upon the desire of advertisers to reach our audience demographic.

Our Spanish-language radio stations compete against other Spanish-language radio stations in their markets for audiences and advertising revenue. In Los Angeles, our radio stations compete primarily against Univision Radio (formerly Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation), Spanish Broadcasting Systems, Inc. and Entravision Communications Corporation, three of the largest Hispanic group radio station operators in the United States. In Houston, our radio stations compete primarily against Univision Radio.

Our television stations primarily compete against Univision Communications, Inc. and Telemundo Communications Group, Inc. for audiences and advertising revenue in the Los Angeles, San Diego, Houston, and Dallas-Fort Worth markets.

On September 22, 2003, two of our competitors, Univision Communications, Inc. and Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation, merged with each other. The combined company has resources substantially greater than ours and is our first competitor to operate both radio and television stations in the Los Angeles, Houston, and Dallas-Fort Worth markets.

Employees

As of December 31, 2004, we had approximately 516 employees, of which approximately 363 were full-time employees. We had approximately 184 full-time employees in television and approximately 179 full-time employees in radio. None of our employees are represented by labor unions, and we have not entered into any collective bargaining agreements. We believe that our relations with our employees are good.

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REGULATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO BROADCASTING

General

The FCC regulates television and radio broadcast stations pursuant to the Communications Act of 1934, as amended. Among other things, the FCC:

A licensee’s failure to observe the requirements of the Communications Act or FCC rules and policies may result in the imposition of various sanctions, including admonishment, fines, the grant of renewal terms of less than eight years, the grant of a license with conditions or, in the case of particularly egregious violations, the denial of a license renewal application, the revocation of an FCC license or the denial of FCC consent to acquire additional broadcast properties.

Congress and the FCC have had under consideration or reconsideration, and may in the future consider and adopt, new laws, regulations and policies regarding a wide variety of matters that could, directly or indirectly, affect the operation, ownership and profitability of our television and radio stations, result in the loss of audience share and advertising revenue for our television and radio broadcast stations or affect our ability to acquire additional television and radio broadcast stations or finance such acquisitions. These matters may include:

We cannot predict what changes, if any, might be adopted, nor can we predict what other matters might be considered in the future, nor can we judge in advance what impact, if any, the implementation of any particular proposal or change might have on our business.

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FCC Licenses

Television and radio stations operate pursuant to licenses that are granted by the FCC for a term of eight years, subject to renewal upon application to the FCC. During the periods when renewal applications are pending, petitions to deny license renewal applications may be filed by interested parties, including members of the public. The FCC may hold hearings on renewal applications if it is unable to determine that renewal of a license would serve the public interest, convenience and necessity, or if a petition to deny raises a “substantial and material question of fact” as to whether the grant of the renewal applications would be inconsistent with the public interest, convenience and necessity. However, the FCC is prohibited from considering competing applications for a renewal applicant’s frequency, and is required to grant the renewal application if it finds:

If as a result of an evidentiary hearing, the FCC determines that the licensee has failed to meet the requirements for renewal and that no mitigating factors justify the imposition of a lesser sanction, the FCC may deny a license renewal application. Historically, FCC licenses have generally been renewed. We have no reason to believe that our licenses will not be renewed in the ordinary course, although there can be no assurance to that effect. The non-renewal of one or more of our stations’ licenses could have a material adverse effect on our business.

The FCC licenses some television stations as low power television stations. Low power television stations generally operate at lower power and cover a smaller geographic area than full-service television stations, are not entitled to carriage by cable television and direct broadcast satellite operators and must accept interference from, and eliminate interference to, full-service television stations. Our station KSDX in San Diego is a low power television station.

Transfer and Assignment of Licenses

The Communications Act requires prior consent of the FCC for the assignment of a broadcast license or the transfer of control of a corporation or other entity holding a license. In determining whether to approve an assignment of a television or radio broadcast license or a transfer of control of a broadcast licensee, the FCC considers a number of factors pertaining to the licensee including compliance with various rules limiting common ownership of media properties, the “character” of the licensee and those persons holding “attributable” interests therein, the Communications Act’s limitations on foreign ownership and compliance with the FCC rules and regulations.

To obtain the FCC’s prior consent to assign or transfer a broadcast license, appropriate applications must be filed with the FCC. If the application to assign or transfer the license involves a substantial change in ownership or control of the licensee, for example, the transfer or acquisition of more than 50% of the voting equity, the application must be placed on public notice for a period of 30 days during which petitions to deny the application may be filed by interested parties, including members of the public. If an assignment application does not involve new parties, or if a transfer of control application does not involve a “substantial” change in ownership or control, it is a pro forma application, which is not subject to the public notice and 30-day petition to deny procedure. The regular and pro forma applications are nevertheless subject to informal objections that may be filed any time until the FCC acts on the application. If the FCC grants an assignment or transfer application, interested parties have 30 days from public notice of the grant to seek reconsideration of that grant. The FCC has an additional ten days to set aside such grant on its own motion. When ruling on an assignment or transfer application, the FCC is prohibited from considering whether the public interest might be served by an assignment or transfer to any party other than the assignee or transferee specified in the application.

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The FCC has granted its consent to the merger of LBI Holdings I, Inc. into Liberman Broadcasting, Inc., and the anticipated issuance of the Class A common stock offered by Liberman Broadcasting, Inc.

Foreign Ownership Rules

Under the Communications Act, a broadcast license may not be granted to or held by persons who are not U.S. citizens, by any corporation that has more than 20% of its capital stock owned or voted by non-U.S. citizens or entities or their representatives, by foreign governments or their representatives or by non-U.S. corporations. Furthermore, the Communications Act provides that no FCC broadcast license may be granted to or held by any corporation directly or indirectly controlled by any other corporation of which more than 25% of its capital stock is owned of record or voted by non-U.S. citizens or entities or their representatives, foreign governments or their representatives or by non-U.S. corporations, if the FCC finds the public interest will be served by the refusal or revocation of such license. These restrictions apply similarly to partnerships, limited liability companies and other business organizations. Thus, the licenses for our stations could be revoked if more than 25% of our outstanding capital stock is issued to or for the benefit of non-U.S. citizens in excess of these limitations.

Multiple Ownership and Cross-Ownership Rules

The FCC generally applies its other broadcast ownership limits to “attributable” interests held by an individual, corporation or other association or entity. In the case of a corporation holding broadcast licenses, the interests of officers, directors and those who, directly or indirectly, have the right to vote 5% or more of the stock of a licensee corporation are generally deemed attributable interests, as are positions as an officer or director of a corporate parent of a broadcast licensee.

Stock interests held by insurance companies, mutual funds, bank trust departments and certain other passive investors that hold stock for investment purposes only become attributable with the ownership of 20% or more of the voting stock of the corporation holding broadcast licenses. On December 3, 2001, the FCC reinstated the single majority shareholder exemption to these attribution rules, which provides that the interests of minority shareholders in a corporation are not attributable if a single entity holds 50% or more of that corporation’s voting stock.

A time brokerage agreement with another television or radio station in the same market creates an attributable interest in the brokered television or radio station as well for purposes of the FCC’s local television or radio station ownership rules, if the agreement affects more than 15% of the brokered television or radio station’s weekly broadcast hours.

Debt instruments, non-voting stock, options and warrants for voting stock that have not yet been exercised, insulated limited partnership interests where the limited partner is not “materially involved” in the media-related activities of the partnership and minority voting stock interests in corporations where there is a single holder of more than 50% of the outstanding voting stock whose vote is sufficient to affirmatively direct the affairs of the corporation generally do not subject their holders to attribution.

However, the FCC now applies a rule, known as the equity-debt-plus rule, that causes certain creditors or investors to be attributable owners of a station, regardless of whether there is a single majority shareholder or other applicable exception to the FCC’s attribution rules. Under this rule, a major programming supplier (any programming supplier that provides more than 15% of the station’s weekly programming hours) or a same-market media entity will be an attributable owner of a station if the supplier or same-market media entity holds debt or equity, or both, in the station that is greater than 33% of the value of the station’s total debt plus equity. For purposes of the equity-debt-plus rule, equity includes all stock, whether voting or nonvoting, and, equity held by insulated limited partners in limited partnerships. Debt includes all liabilities, whether long-term or short-term. If a party were to purchase stock which, in combination with other of our debt or equity interests, amounts to more than 33% of the value of one or more of our station’s total debt plus equity and such party were a major programming supplier or a same-market media entity, such interest could result in a violation of one of the ownership rules. As a result of such violation, we may be unable to obtain from the FCC one or more authorizations needed to conduct our broadcast business and may be unable to obtain FCC consents for certain future acquisitions unless either we or the investor were to remedy the violation.

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The FCC’s ownership rules affect the number, type, and location of broadcast and newspaper properties that we might acquire in the future. The ownership rules now in effect limit the aggregate audience reach of television stations that may be under common ownership, operation and control, or in which a single person or entity may hold office or have more than a specified interest or percentage of voting power, to 39% of the total national audience. FCC rules also place certain limits on common ownership, operation, and control of, or cognizable or “attributable” interests or voting power in:

The FCC completed a comprehensive review of its ownership rules in 2003, significantly relaxing restrictions on the common ownership of television stations, radio stations and daily newspapers within the same local market. Many of the new rules have yet to take effect due to legal challenges. New rules that effectively tighten restrictions on local radio ownership, however, are in place. The outcome of litigation and legislative efforts and the ultimate landscape of FCC ownership regulation are in flux and may not be resolved for some time.

Specifically, on June 24, 2004, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit released a split-decision rejecting many of the new rules governing media ownership adopted by the FCC in 2003. While affirming the FCC in certain respects, the Third Circuit found fault with the FCC’s proposed new limits on media combinations, remanded them to the agency for further proceedings, and extended the stay on the effectiveness of the new rules it had imposed in September 2003. As a result, with the exception of certain new regulations governing local radio ownership – which took effect after the agency successfully petitioned the court to lift the stay as it applied to those rules – pre-July 2003 restrictions continue to govern media transactions, pending completion of the agency proceedings on remand and further review by the Third Circuit, or appeals to the United States Supreme Court.

The discussion below reviews the rules currently in effect, the changes contemplated in the FCC’s 2003 decision, and the Third Circuit’s response to the revised ownership regulations that the FCC adopted. These ongoing proceedings, as well as Congressional action, could dramatically change the rules or affect our ability to acquire additional radio and televisions stations. Both the FCC and Congress, however, are currently considering proposals that would expand the low-power FM service.

Local Television Ownership Rule

Under the local television ownership rule currently in effect, an owner may operate two television stations assigned to the same market (defined as the Designated Market Area (DMA) created by the Nielsen media research firm based on historical television viewing patterns) so long as either:

The FCC will consider waiving these ownership restrictions in certain cases involving failing or failed stations or stations which are not yet built.

Should they become effective, the FCC’s new local television ownership rules will allow an entity to own two television stations in any market with at least five television stations. However, no single entity may own more than one television station ranked among the top four in a local market based on audience ratings.

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The FCC’s new rules would also allow, in certain circumstances, common ownership of three television stations in a single market. In the largest markets—those with 18 or more television stations—a company would be permitted to own three TV stations, although this portion of the rule also would be subject to the “top four” limitation described above.

The FCC’s new local television ownership rules also include a provision for waiver of the “top four” standard in certain circumstances. In markets with 11 or fewer television stations, the FCC would allow parties to seek waivers of the “top four” restriction and evaluate on a case-by-case basis whether joint ownership would serve the public interest.

The Third Circuit upheld the FCC’s decision to retain a prohibition of common ownership of more than one top four-ranked station in a given market. The Court remanded for further consideration, however, the other numerical limits applicable to same-market TV combinations.

Local Radio Ownership

The Communications Act and the FCC impose specific limits on the number of commercial radio stations an entity can own in a single market. The local radio ownership rules are as follows:

In contrast to the other local media ownership rules, the FCC did not attempt to significantly relax its radio rules in 2003. The agency decided to retain these numerical caps, which were set by Congress in the 1996 Act. The FCC did adjust certain aspects of the radio rules, however, by adopting a new definition of a “radio market,” deciding to take noncommercial radio stations into account in its determination of market size and limiting the transferability of existing radio clusters that would not comply with the new regulations. The Third Circuit upheld these changes and, upon FCC request, in September 2004 lifted its stay as applied to these rules. However, the Court of Appeals remanded the agency’s decision to retain the numerical caps, and that aspect of the FCC’s decision remains under review.

As a result, the rule that changes the way in which a radio “market” is defined is now in effect. This rule defines local radio markets using a geographic market approach assigned by Arbitron rather than a signal contour method. The new local radio ownership rule also includes both commercial and noncommercial stations in counting the number of stations in a given radio market. Because of the change in market definition, our Houston radio cluster does not comply with the new rules, but the “grandfathering” provisions of the FCC’s new rules permit us to retain it. We may not, however, be able to sell the entire cluster to a single party in the future. In addition, the radio market definition under the new rules could limit the number of additional radio stations that we can acquire.

Cross-Ownership Restrictions

The cross-ownership rules currently in effect generally prohibit common ownership of a newspaper and a broadcast property in the same market. The cross-ownership rules do permit a television station owner to own one radio station in the same market as its television station. In addition, a television station owner is permitted to own additional radio stations, not to exceed the local ownership limits for the market, as follows:

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A “media voice” includes each independently-owned and operated full-power television and radio station and each daily newspaper that has a circulation exceeding 5% of the households in the market, plus one voice for all cable television systems operating in the market.

The FCC’s new ownership rules would replace the existing newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership restriction as well as the radio/television cross-ownership limits with new “cross-media limits.”

Smaller Markets. In markets with three or fewer television stations in the DMA, the FCC’s new rules would prohibit cross-ownership among television stations, radio stations and daily newspapers.

Mid-Sized Markets. In markets with between four and eight television stations in the DMA, media combinations would be limited to one of the three following:

Large Markets. In markets with nine or more television stations in the DMA, there would be no limits on television, newspaper and radio cross-ownership. Local television and radio ownership limits still exist in such markets.

Although the Third Circuit determined that the FCC’s decision to eliminate its outright ban on newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership was justified, the Court also found that the new cross-media limits were based on irrational assumptions and inconsistencies. The cross-media limits, consequently, were remanded to the FCC for further consideration.

National TV Ownership Limit

In its 2003 decision, the FCC modified the national TV ownership cap – the percentage of U.S. households that a single owner can reach through common owned television stations – from 35% to 45% of the national audience. In that same decision, the FCC decided to retain the 50% “discount” that it currently grants to ultra-high frequency (“UHF”) stations, finding that the discount continues to be necessary to promote competition. While the legal proceedings surrounding the FCC’s new ownership rules were ongoing, legislation was enacted that required the FCC to raise the national television ownership cap to 39%. The Third Circuit consequently ruled that challenges to the national television ownership cap are now moot, and the 39% cap is the current law.

The court also declared that the legislative action mooted questions about the UHF discount, which had been challenged by several parties. The Third Circuit concluded that the FCC could consider changes to the discount in a separate rulemaking proceeding.

The FCC’s current rules prohibit a single entity from reaching more than 35% of nationwide television households. Legislation was recently enacted that requires the FCC to raise that cap to 39%. The rules provide for a so-called “UHF discount,” a 50% “discount” that the FCC grants to UHF stations in calculating an entity’s national audience reach.

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Our ability to acquire additional television and radio stations, our acquisition strategy and our business may be significantly affected by the new multiple ownership and cross-ownership rules, ongoing FCC or Congressional review or amendment to the new rules, as well as litigation challenging and possible court action upon the new rules.

Because of these multiple and cross-ownership rules, if a shareholder, officer or director of Liberman Broadcasting or one of its subsidiaries holds an “attributable” interest in one or more of our stations, that shareholder, officer or director may violate the FCC’s rules if that person or entity also holds or acquires an attributable interest in other television or radio stations or daily newspapers, depending on their number and location. If an attributable shareholder, officer or director of Liberman Broadcasting or one of its subsidiaries violates any of these ownership rules, we may be unable to obtain from the FCC one or more authorizations needed to conduct our broadcast business, and may be unable to obtain FCC consents for certain future acquisitions.

Programming and Operation

The Communications Act requires broadcasters to serve the “public interest.” Since 1981, the FCC has gradually relaxed or eliminated many of the more formalized procedures it developed to promote the broadcast of certain types of programming responsive to the needs of a broadcast station’s community of license. Nevertheless, a broadcast licensee continues to be required to present programming in response to community problems, needs and interests and to maintain certain records demonstrating its responsiveness. The FCC will consider complaints from the public about a broadcast station’s programming when it evaluates the licensee’s renewal application, but complaints also may be filed and considered at any time. Stations also must follow various FCC rules that regulate, among other things, political broadcasting, the broadcast of obscene or indecent programming, sponsorship identification, the broadcast of contests and lotteries, certain types of advertising such as for out-of-state lotteries and gambling casinos, and technical operation.

The FCC requires that licensees must not discriminate in hiring practices. In light of a 2001 court ruling that vacated FCC requirements that licensees follow certain specific practices with respect to minority hiring, the FCC has adopted employment-related rules that require licensees to engage in certain recruiting and “outreach” efforts, among other things, and to make several new filings to the FCC. In late 2004, the FCC began monitoring broadcasters’ compliance with equal employment requirements through random audits and targeted investigations.

The FCC rules also prohibit a broadcast licensee from simulcasting more than 25% of its programming on another radio station in the same broadcast service (that is, AM/AM or FM/FM). The simulcasting restriction applies if the licensee owns both radio broadcast stations or owns one and programs the other through a local marketing agreement, provided that the contours of the radio stations overlap in a certain manner.

“Must Carry” Rules and Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999

FCC regulations implementing the 1992 Cable Act require each full-service television broadcaster to elect, at three year intervals beginning October 1, 1993, to either:

We have elected “must carry” with respect to each of our full-power stations for the three-year election cycle beginning January 1, 2003. Our next election will be due on October 1, 2005.

Under the FCC’s rules currently in effect, cable systems are only required to carry one signal from each local broadcast television station. The cable systems that carry our stations’ analog signals will not be required to carry our digital signal until we discontinue our analog broadcasting. Also, under current FCC rules, the cable systems will be required to carry only one channel of digital signal from each of our stations, even though we may be capable of broadcasting multiple programs simultaneously within the bandwidth that the FCC has allotted to us for digital broadcasting.

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The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999, which has been extended through December 31, 2009, allows satellite carriers to deliver “distant” broadcast programming to subscribers who are unable to obtain television network programming over the air from local television stations. It also allows satellite carriers to provide subscribers with “local-into-local” programming, but imposes a requirement analogous to the Cable Act’s “must carry” rules: Any satellite company that has chosen to provide local-into-local service must provide subscribers with all of the local broadcast television signals that are assigned to the market and where television licensees ask to be carried on the satellite system. We have taken advantage of this law to secure carriage of our full-service stations in those markets where the satellite operators have implemented local-into-local service.

Time Brokerage Agreements

We have entered into time brokerage agreements under which we are given the right to broker time on stations owned by third parties, or agree that other parties may broker time on our stations. Historically, we have only purchased time on stations owned by third parties prior to purchasing selected assets of that station. By using time brokerage agreements, we can provide programming and other services to a station proposed to be acquired before we receive all applicable FCC and other governmental approvals. As indicated, we have, from time to time, entered into time brokerage agreements giving third parties the right to broker time on stations owned by us.

FCC rules and policies generally permit time brokerage agreements if the station licensee retains ultimate responsibility for and control of the applicable station. As a part of that requirement, the licensee of a time-brokered station is required to maintain certain personnel at the time-brokered station. We may not be able to air all of our scheduled programming on a station with which we have time brokerage agreements and we may not receive the anticipated revenue from the sale of advertising for that programming. Likewise, we may not receive the payments from the time brokers to whom we have sold time on our stations.

Stations may enter into cooperative arrangements known as joint sales agreements. Under the typical joint sales agreement, a station licensee obtains, for a fee, the right to sell substantially all of the commercial advertising on a separately owned and licensed station in the same market. It also involves the provision by the selling party of certain sales, accounting and services to the station whose advertising is being sold. Unlike a time brokerage agreement, the typical joint sales agreement does not involve programming. The Third Circuit, however, upheld the FCC’s 2003 decision to make radio joint sales agreements attributable for multiple ownership purposes, and the new rule took effect in September 2004. The FCC has also initiated a rulemaking proceeding to consider whether television joint sales agreements should be attributable for purposes of its media ownership rules.

As part of its increased scrutiny of television and radio station acquisitions, the Department of Justice has stated publicly that it believes that time brokerage agreements and joint sales agreements could violate the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, if such agreements take effect prior to the expiration of the waiting period under that Act. Furthermore, the Department of Justice has noted that joint sales agreements may raise antitrust concerns under Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act and has challenged them in certain locations. The Department of Justice also has stated publicly that it has established certain revenue and audience share concentration benchmarks with respect to television and radio station acquisitions, above which a transaction may receive additional antitrust scrutiny.

Digital Television Services

The FCC has adopted rules for implementing digital television service in the U.S. Implementation of digital television will improve the technical quality of television signals and provide broadcasters the flexibility to offer new services, including, but not limited to, high-definition television and data broadcasting.

The FCC has established service rules and adopted a table of allotments for digital television. Under the table, certain eligible broadcasters with a full-service television station are allocated a separate channel for digital television operation. When the transition to digital television is complete, stations will be required to operate as single digital channel and to surrender any other channel on which they previously operated in a non-digital mode. Stations may be required to surrender the extra channel by the end of 2006, except that the deadline may be extended until digital television receivers reach an 85% market penetration.

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Under the FCC’s digital television rules, stations are allowed to initially satisfy the obligation to begin broadcasting a digital television signal by broadcasting a signal that serves, at least, each full-service television station’s applicable community of license, rather than to broadcast at full authorized power. These rules have permitted us to operate our digital television facilities in Los Angeles, Houston and Dallas at lower power pursuant to special temporary authority from the FCC. We began broadcasting with a digital signal on KRCA-TV and KZJL-TV in November 2002 and August 2003, respectively, and KMPX-TV, which we acquired in January 2004, has been operating with a digital signal since July 2003.

The FCC has adopted timetables that require stations to select their post-transition digital channels during 2005 and 2006. In addition, the FCC has set deadlines for certain stations to increase their digital facilities to operate at full authorized power. Equipment and other costs are associated with these requirements.

We have developed a plan for complying with the FCC’s continuing digital television requirements. During 2005 and 2006, we will elect the currently-allotted digital channels for KZJL-TV and KMPX-TV as their permanent post-transition digital channels. In the case of KRCA-TV, we will need to change the frequency on which our digital station operates. By July 1, 2006, we must complete construction of digital facilities for KZJL-TV and KMPX-TV at full authorized power. In the case of KRCA, we will continue to operate the existing reduced-power facilities until the end of 2006, when we may be required to complete construction of full-power digital facilities on the post-transition KRCA-TV digital channel, except that this deadline may be extended until digital television receivers reach an 85% market penetration.

Equipment and other costs associated with the transition to digital television, including the necessity of temporary dual-mode operations, the relocation of stations from one channel to another, and the buildout of full-power digital facilities, will impose some near-term financial costs on television stations providing the services. The potential also exists for new sources of revenue to be derived from digital television. We cannot predict the overall effect the transition to digital television might have on our business.

Digital Radio Services

The FCC has recently adopted rules authorizing the implementation of terrestrial digital audio broadcasting technology, including In-Band On-Channel^TM technology for FM radio stations. Digital audio broadcasting’s advantages over traditional analog broadcasting technology include improved sound quality and the ability to offer a greater variety of auxiliary services. In-Band On-Channel^TM technology permits FM stations to transmit radio programming in both analog and digital formats, or in digital only formats, using the bandwidth that the radio station is currently licensed to use. It is unclear what effect those regulations will have on our business or the operations of our radio stations.

The FCC has allocated spectrum to a new technology, satellite digital audio radio service, to deliver satellite-based audio programming to a national or regional audience. The nationwide reach of the satellite digital audio radio service could allow niche programming aimed at diverse communities that we are targeting. Two companies that hold licenses for authority to offer multiple channels of digital, satellite-delivered radio could compete with conventional terrestrial radio broadcasting. These competitors have commenced their operations.

Radio Frequency Radiation

The FCC has adopted rules limiting human exposure to levels of radio frequency radiation. These rules require applicants for renewal of broadcast licenses or modification of existing licenses to inform the FCC whether the applicant’s broadcast facility would expose people or employees to excessive radio frequency radiation. We believe that all of our stations are in compliance with the FCC’s current rules regarding radio frequency radiation exposure.

Low-Power Radio Broadcast Service

The FCC has adopted rules creating a new low-power FM radio service. The low-power FM service consists of two classes of radio stations, with maximum power levels of either 10 watts or 100 watts. The 10 watt

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stations reach an area with a radius of between one and two miles and the 100 watt stations reach an area with a radius of approximately three and one-half miles. Each of these low-power FM stations is required to avoid interference with other existing FM stations, as currently required of full-powered FM stations.

The low-power FM service is exclusively non-commercial. It is difficult to predict what impact, if any, the new low-power FM service will have on competition for our stations’ audiences. Because of the legislation passed by Congress in 2000, which protected incumbent radio broadcasters on frequency three channels away, and because of certain FCC interference standards, we expect that low-power FM service will cause little or no signal interference with our stations.

ITEM 2. PROPERTIES

The types of properties required to support our radio and television stations include offices, studios and transmitter and antenna sites. Through our wholly owned subsidiary, we own studio and office space at 1845 West Empire Avenue, Burbank, California 91504. This property is subject to a mortgage in favor of Jefferson Pilot Financial, with whom one of our indirect subsidiaries has entered into a loan agreement. See “Description of Other Indebtedness—Empire Burbank Loan.” We also own studio and office space at 1813 Victory Place, Burbank, California 91504. In addition, we own offices, studio and production facilities in Houston and Dallas, Texas for our operations there. We own a number of our transmitter and antenna sites and lease or license the remainder from third parties. We generally select our tower and antenna sites to provide maximum market coverage. In general, we do not anticipate difficulties in renewing these site leases. No single facility is material to us, and we believe our facilities are generally in good condition and suitable for our operations.

ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

From time to time, we are involved in litigation incidental to the conduct of our business, but we are not currently a party to any material lawsuit or proceeding against us.

ITEM 4. SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS

No matters were submitted to a vote of our stockholders during the last quarter of our fiscal year ended December 31, 2004.

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PART II

ITEM 5. MARKET FOR THE REGISTRANT’S COMMON STOCK AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS

There is currently no established public trading market for the common stock of LBI Media, Inc. LBI Media, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of LBI Media Holdings, Inc. LBI Media Holdings, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of LBI Holdings I, Inc. Jose and Lenard Liberman each own 50% of the outstanding stock (100 shares of common stock each) of LBI Holdings I, Inc. Liberman Broadcasting, Inc., a Delaware corporation, has filed a Registration Statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission for registration of its Class A common stock. Before the anticipated offering of its Class A common stock, Liberman Broadcasting, Inc. will merge with our current indirect parent, LBI Holdings I, Inc., which will reincorporate our indirect parent from a California corporation to a Delaware corporation.

LBI Media has not sold or reacquired any of its equity securities for the three years ended December 31, 2004, other than in connection with internal restructurings in which no proceeds were received. LBI Media paid dividends to its parent of $767,997 and $183 for each of the years ended December 31, 2003 and 2004, respectively. LBI Media’s senior credit facility and the indenture governing its senior subordinated notes impose restrictions on the payment of cash dividends or payments on account of or on redemption, retirement or purchase of its common stock or other distributions. See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Liquidity and Capital Resources.”

ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA

The following selected financial data is derived from our audited consolidated financial statements. The financial data set forth below should be read in conjunction with, and is qualified in its their entirety by, the corresponding audited consolidated financial statements, related notes and Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations included elsewhere in this annual report.

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We discuss Adjusted EBITDA and the limitations of this financial measure in more detail under “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Finance Condition and Results of Operations—Non-GAAP Financial Measure.”

The table set forth below reconciles net cash provided by operating activities, calculated and presented in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, to Adjusted EBITDA.

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ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

The discussion in this annual report contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Our actual results could differ materially from those discussed below. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those identified below and those discussed in the section titled “Risk Factors” included elsewhere in this annual report. You should also carefully review the risk factors set forth in other reports or documents that we file from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and any Current Reports on Form 8-K. You should also read the following discussion and analysis in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and related notes included in this annual report.

Overview

We own and operate radio and television stations in Los Angeles, California, Houston, Texas and Dallas, Texas and a television station in San Diego, California. Our radio stations consist of four FM and two AM stations serving Los Angeles, California and its surrounding area, five FM and four AM stations serving Houston, Texas and its surrounding areas, and one FM station serving Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas and its surrounding areas. In addition, we operate a television production facility, Empire Burbank Studios, in Burbank, California that we primarily use to produce our core programming for all of our television stations, and we have television production facilities in Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth that will allow us to produce local programming for those markets.

We operate in two reportable segments, radio and television. We generate revenue from sales of local, regional and national advertising time on our radio and television stations, the sale of time on a contractual basis to brokered or infomercial customers on our radio and television stations, and, to the extent available, the leasing of space in our production facilities to outside entertainment companies. Advertising rates are, in large part, based on each station’s ability to attract audiences in demographic groups targeted by advertisers. Our stations compete for audiences and advertising revenue directly with other Spanish-language radio and television stations and we generally do not obtain long-term commitments from our advertisers. As a result, our management team focuses on creating a diverse advertiser base, producing cost-effective, locally focused programming, providing creative advertising solutions for clients, executing targeted marketing campaigns to develop a local audience and implementing strict cost controls. We recognize revenues when the commercials are broadcast or the brokered time is made available to the customer. We incur commissions from agencies on local, regional and national advertising, and our net revenue reflects deductions from gross revenue for commissions to these agencies.

Our primary expenses are employee compensation, including commissions paid to our sales staff, promotion, selling, programming and engineering expenses, commissions paid to our national representative firm, SMRT, and general and administrative expenses and interest expense. Our programming expenses for television consist of costs related to the production of original programming content, production of local newscasts and the acquisition of programming content from other sources. Because we are highly leveraged, we will need to dedicate a substantial portion of our cash flow from operations to pay interest on our debt. We may need to pursue one or more alternative strategies in the future to meet our debt obligations, such as selling assets, refinancing or restructuring our indebtedness or selling equity securities. If Liberman Broadcasting completes its initial public offering, we expect some of the proceeds will be contributed to us for repayment of our outstanding debt.

On October 11, 2002, we completed our acquisition of the selected assets of KQQK-FM, licensed to Houston, Texas, for an aggregate purchase price of $25.6 million (including acquisition costs). On October 11, 2002, we also completed our acquisition of the selected assets of KIOX-FM and KXGJ-FM, licensed to El Campo and Bay City, Texas, respectively, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $3.5 million (including acquisition costs) and have significantly changed the format, customer base, revenue stream and employee base of these stations.

On April 22, 2003, we completed our acquisition of the selected assets of radio station KEYH-AM, licensed to Houston, Texas, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $6.5 million (including acquisition costs) and have significantly changed the format, customer base, revenue stream and employee base of this station.

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On May 15, 2003, we completed our acquisition of the selected assets of KMXN-FM, licensed to Garden Grove, California, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $35.6 million (including acquisition costs) and subsequently changed the station’s call letters to KEBN-FM. We have significantly changed the format, customer base, revenue stream and employee base of this station.

On January 12, 2004, we completed our acquisition of the selected assets of KMPX-TV, licensed to Decatur-Texas, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $37.6 million (including acquisition costs) and have significantly changed the format, customer base, revenue stream and employee base of this station.

On July 20, 2004, we completed our acquisition of the selected assets of radio station KNOR-FM, licensed to Krum, Texas, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $16.1 million (including acquisition costs), and have changed the format, customer base, revenue stream and employee base of this station.

We generally experience lower operating margins for several months following the acquisition of radio and television stations. This is primarily due to the time it takes to fully implement our format changes, build our advertiser base and gain viewer or listener support.

From time to time, we engage in discussions with third parties concerning our possible acquisition of additional radio or television stations or related assets. Any such discussions may or may not lead to our acquisition of additional broadcasting assets.

Liberman Broadcasting, Inc., a Delaware corporation, currently has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-112773) for the initial public offering of its Class A common stock. Immediately before the anticipated offering, Liberman Broadcasting, Inc. will merge with our indirect parent, LBI Holdings, I, Inc., a California corporation. Liberman Broadcasting, Inc. will survive the merger and effectively reincorporate our indirect parent into a Delaware corporation. In this annual report, “Liberman Broadcasting” refers to LBI Holdings I, Inc. before the merger and Liberman Broadcasting, Inc. after the merger, each on an unconsolidated basis. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we can provide no assurance that the anticipated initial public offering will be consummated in the near future, or at all.

If Liberman Broadcasting completes its anticipated initial public offering, it will no longer qualify as an S Corporation, and none of its subsidiaries, including us, will qualify as subchapter S subsidiaries. Thus, Liberman Broadcasting will be taxed at regular corporate rates after its offering. Although Liberman Broadcasting may have less cash available as a result of losing its S corporation status, it will have access to new financial markets as a result of the offering, which we expect will provide Liberman Broadcasting with additional financing options.

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Results of Operations

Separate financial data for each of our operating segments is provided below. We evaluate the performance of our operating segments based on the following:

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Year Ended December 31, 2004 Compared to Year Ended December 31, 2003

Net Revenues. Net revenues increased by $7.4 million, or 8.8%, to $91.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2004, from $84.0 million in 2003. This increase was primarily attributable to revenue growth from our television segment, including additional revenue from our station in the Dallas-Fort Worth market, KMPX-TV, acquired in January 2004. The increase in revenues from our television segment was offset by a modest decline in revenues from our radio division, primarily resulting from lower national advertising time sold and strong results posted during 2003, when revenue growth from our radio segment was 16.1%.

Net revenues for our radio segment decreased by $0.8 million, or 1.9%, to $44.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2004, from $45.6 million in 2003. This decline was primarily attributable to (i) lower national advertising revenue resulting from a decrease in advertising time sold to national advertisers and (ii) strong results posted during 2003, when revenue growth was 16.1%.

Net revenues for our television segment increased by $8.2 million, or 21.5%, to $46.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2004, from $38.4 million in 2003. This increase was attributable to revenue growth in our California and Texas markets, resulting from improved programming ratings, which has enabled us to raise advertising rates and increase advertising time sold. In addition, the growth in revenue from our television segment benefited from incremental revenues from our new Dallas-Fort Worth station, KMPX-TV, acquired in January 2004.

The overall increase in net revenues for our television segment was offset in part by a $1.2 million decline in revenues from the leasing of our television production facility, Empire Burbank Studios, Inc. This resulted from an increase in the use of the facility for the production of in-house programming, thereby reducing available leasing space. We expect to continue using space in our production facility primarily to produce our internal programs and therefore expect future leasing revenues to be minimal. As a result, we believe that in order to provide a comparable basis for evaluating our results for the year ended December 31, 2004, compared to the same period in 2003, it is necessary to exclude net revenues generated from leasing this facility. Below is a reconciliation of net revenues for our television segment, prepared and presented in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, to net revenues excluding leasing revenues from our production facility:

We currently anticipate net revenue growth for 2005 from both our radio and television segments due to increased advertising time sold and increased advertising rates. Our programming, focused sales strategy and the expected continued demand for Spanish-language advertising should continue to increase our advertising time sold and advertising rates in 2005 for both segments.

Total operating expenses. Total operating expenses increased by $9.5 million, or 20.2%, to $56.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2004 from $47.1 million in 2003. This increase was due to: