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Company Reports Solid Third Quarter Results

Declares Fourth Quarter Cash Dividend of $0.18 per Share

SAN CARLOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- TiVo Corporation (NASDAQ:TIVO) today reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2017.

"TiVo executed well, making progress across all areas of our business and delivered solid financial results in the third quarter," said Tom Carson, President and CEO of TiVo. Carson added, "We just launched our innovative voice search and the New TiVo Experience, our new visually rich user interface, across our U.S. retail platform. Our next generation operator product is now live with Millicom in Colombia, one of the largest Pay-TV and mobile operators in Latin America. We extended our licensing deal with AT&T, the largest US Pay-TV operator, and expanded our licensing relationship with Liberty Global, Europe's largest Pay-TV operator. We also continued our progress in the CE and OTT spaces with our Sony license renewal. Finally, given our substantial operating cash flows, we declared a fourth quarter cash dividend of $0.18 per common share to be paid in December, meaning TiVo will have returned $0.72 per share to its shareholders in 2017."

Third Quarter Results

The Company reported third quarter revenue of $197.9 million, an increase of 29% compared to $153.1 million in the third quarter of 2016. As expected, revenues were higher than in the comparable period of the prior year due to the acquisition of TiVo Solutions Inc. in the third quarter of 2016. Third quarter 2017 Net loss was $17.0 million, compared to a Net income of $49.9 million for the third quarter of 2016. The third quarter 2016 net income included an $83.4 million tax benefit.

On a Non-GAAP basis, third quarter 2017 Non-GAAP Pre-tax Income was $54.1 million, compared to $45.6 million in the third quarter of 2016. Estimated cash taxes for the quarter were approximately $5 million. For the third quarter of 2017, GAAP Diluted weighted average shares outstanding were 121 million and Non-GAAP Diluted Weighted Average Shares Outstanding were 122 million.

Third quarter 2017 Adjusted EBITDA was $66.5 million compared to $59.8 million in third quarter 2016.

Non-GAAP Pre-tax Income and Adjusted EBITDA are defined below in the section entitled "Non-GAAP Information." Reconciliations between GAAP and Non-GAAP amounts are provided in the tables below.

2017 Business Outlook

For fiscal year 2017, the Company maintains its expected revenue range of $810 million to $830 million, which includes approximately $35 million of hardware revenues at the mid-point of expectations. Additionally, the Company expects the full year GAAP Operating loss to be $8 million to $2 million, which is an improvement from the prior range due to lower equity-based compensation costs and transaction, transition & integration costs. Adjusted EBITDA expectations continue to be $276 million to $290 million. The Company now expects a GAAP loss before taxes of $70 million to $60 million and for Non-GAAP Pre-tax Income to be $218 million to $232 million. Costs include Non-GAAP Cost of hardware revenue of approximately $45 million at the mid-point of expectations. TiVo anticipates it will incur $20 million to $22 million in Cash Taxes. Additionally, TiVo expects its GAAP diluted weighted average shares outstanding to be approximately 121 million and Non-GAAP Diluted Weighted Average Shares Outstanding to be approximately 122 million.

Capital Allocation

On November 1, 2017, TiVo's Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $0.18 per common share, to be paid on December 20, 2017, to all stockholders of record as of the close of business on December 6, 2017. TiVo's Board believes it can reward its stockholders with a meaningful dividend, while maintaining ample capacity for the Company to invest in the business, pursue long-term growth aspirations, and consider additional capital allocation alternatives. During 2017, TiVo expects to have returned $0.72 per share to its investors, which based on our current stock price equates to almost a 4% dividend yield.

TIVO BUSINESS AND OPERATING HIGHLIGHTS:

Product:

• Approximately 23 million subscriber households around the world use TiVo's advanced television experiences.
• TiVo launched voice search across live TV, DVR, video-on-demand and popular online streaming services in its latest U.S. retail consumer offering. Additionally, these products also include the New TiVo Experience, our latest visually rich, on-screen user experience.
• Millicom has deployed the New TiVo Experience Platform in Colombia with other Latin American countries to follow.
• Sharp selected TiVo's G-Guide to power Sharp's AQUOS Smart TVs in Japan, allowing users of this product to enjoy the industry's most advanced programing guide for Smart TVs.
• J:COM, one of Japan's largest cable television operators, signed a multi-year renewal for TiVo's G-Guide.
• TiVo is partnering with Discovery Networks to power their end-to-end audience-based marketing inventory planning and execution with TiVo's own Audience Works for Marketing.

IP Licensing:

• AT&T, the largest U.S. Pay-TV provider, extended its IP license by three years through 2025, highlighting the long-term value of our innovation and technology to US Pay-TV providers. TiVo's two largest US Pay-TV deals extend well into the 2020s.
• Liberty Global, Europe's largest Pay-TV provider, expanded its license to cover all of their international markets.
• Sony signed a multi-year IP license renewal across all of its relevant entertainment products.
• J:COM, one of Japan's largest cable television operators, signed an IP license multi-year renewal.

Conference Call Information

TiVo management will host a conference call today, November 2, 2017, at 2:00 p.m. PT/5:00 p.m. ET to discuss the financial and operational results. Investors and analysts interested in participating in the conference call are welcome to dial (866) 621-1214 (or international +1-706-643-4013) and reference conference ID 16638241. The conference call can also be accessed via live webcast in the Investor Relations section of TiVo's website at http://www.tivo.com/.

A telephonic replay of the conference call will be available through November 9, 2017 and can be accessed by dialing (855) 859-2056 (or international +1-404-537-3406) and entering conference ID 16638241. A replay of the audio webcast will be available on TiVo's website shortly after the live call ends and will remain on TiVo's website until its next quarterly earnings call.

Non-GAAP Financial Information

TiVo Corporation provides Non-GAAP information to assist investors in assessing its operations in the way that its management evaluates those operations. Non-GAAP Pre-Tax Income, Non-GAAP Cost of licensing, services and software revenues, Non-GAAP Cost of hardware revenues, Non-GAAP Research and Development Expenses, Non-GAAP Selling, General and Administrative Expenses, Non-GAAP Depreciation, Non-GAAP Total OpEx, Non-GAAP Total COGS and OpEx, Adjusted EBITDA and Non-GAAP Interest Expense are supplemental measures of the Company's performance that are not required by, and are not determined in accordance with, GAAP. Non-GAAP financial information is not a substitute for any financial measure determined in accordance with GAAP.

Non-GAAP Pre-tax Income is defined as GAAP income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes, as adjusted for the effects of items such as amortization of intangible assets, equity-based compensation, accretion of contingent consideration, amortization or write-off of note issuance costs and discounts on convertible debt and mark-to-market adjustments for interest rate swaps; as well as items which impact comparability that are required to be recorded under GAAP, but that the Company believes are not indicative of its core operating results such as restructuring and asset impairment charges, transaction, transition and integration costs, TiVo Acquisition litigation, retention earn-outs payable to former shareholders of acquired businesses, remeasurement of contingent consideration, additional depreciation resulting from facility rationalization actions, gain on settlement of acquired receivable, expenses in connection with the extinguishment or modification of debt and gains on the sale of strategic investments and changes in franchise tax reserves.

Non-GAAP Cost of licensing, services and software revenues is defined as GAAP cost of licensing, services and software revenues, excluding depreciation and amortization of intangible assets, excluding equity-based compensation and transition and integration expenses. Included in Transaction, transition and integration costs in the fourth quarter of 2016 was $10.0 million in expenses for additional guaranteed license payments related to the Company's over-the-top licensing partnership with Intellectual Ventures. These payments were expensed in the fourth quarter of 2016 as the payments were triggered by the execution of a patent license agreement during the quarter and are not expected to be recoverable from the net direct revenue resulting from the patent license agreement and the related TiVo product partnership. This expense was included in Transaction, transition and integration costs as the patent license agreement was entered into as part of continuing, and broadening, the product relationship with TiVo.

Non-GAAP Cost of hardware revenues is defined as GAAP cost of hardware revenues, excluding depreciation and amortization of intangible assets, excluding transition and integration expenses.

Non-GAAP Research and Development Expenses is defined as GAAP research and development expenses excluding equity-based compensation, transition and integration expenses and retention earn-outs payable to former shareholders of acquired businesses.

Non-GAAP Selling, General and Administrative Expenses is defined as GAAP selling, general and administrative expenses excluding equity-based compensation, transaction, transition and integration expenses, retention earn-outs payable to former shareholders of acquired businesses, remeasurement of contingent consideration, gain on settlement of acquired receivable and changes in franchise tax reserves.

Non-GAAP Depreciation is defined as GAAP depreciation expenses excluding the impact of additional depreciation resulting from changes in the estimated useful lives of assets involved in facility rationalization actions.

Non-GAAP Total OpEx is defined as the sum of GAAP research and development and selling, general and administrative expenses, depreciation and gain on sale of patents excluding equity-based compensation, transaction, transition and integration expenses, retention earn-outs payable to former shareholders of acquired businesses, remeasurement of contingent consideration, additional depreciation resulting from facility rationalization actions, gain on settlement of acquired receivable and changes in franchise tax reserves.

Non-GAAP Total COGS and OpEx is defined as GAAP Total Operating costs and expenses, excluding amortization of intangible assets, restructuring and asset impairment charges, equity-based compensation, transaction, transition and integration expenses, retention earn-outs payable to former shareholders of acquired businesses changes in the fair value of contingent consideration, additional depreciation resulting from facility rationalization actions, gain on settlement of acquired receivables and changes in franchise tax reserves.

Adjusted EBITDA is defined as GAAP operating income excluding depreciation, amortization of intangible assets, restructuring and asset impairment charges, equity-based compensation, transaction, transition and integration costs, gain on settlement of acquired receivable, retention earn-outs payable to former shareholders of acquired businesses, earn-out settlements, remeasurement of contingent consideration and changes in franchise tax reserves.

Non-GAAP Interest Expense is defined as GAAP interest expense, excluding interest on franchise tax reserves, accretion of contingent consideration, amortization or write-off of issuance costs and discounts on convertible debt plus the reclassification of the current period benefit (cost) of the interest rate swaps from gain (loss) on interest rate swaps.

Cash Taxes are defined as GAAP current income tax expense excluding changes in reserves for unrecognized tax benefits.

Non-GAAP Diluted Weighted Average Shares Outstanding is defined as GAAP diluted weighted average shares outstanding except for periods of a GAAP loss. In periods of a GAAP loss, GAAP diluted weighted average shares outstanding are adjusted to include dilutive common share equivalents outstanding that were excluded from GAAP diluted weighted average shares outstanding because the Company had a loss and therefore these shares would have been anti-dilutive.

The Company's management evaluates and makes decisions about its business operations primarily based on Non-GAAP financial information. Management uses Non-GAAP financial measures as the basis for decision-making as they exclude items management does not consider to be "core costs" or "core proceeds". For each Non-GAAP financial measure, the adjustment provides management with information about the Company's underlying operating performance that enables a more meaningful comparison to its historical and projected financial performance in different reporting periods. For example, since the Company does not acquire businesses on a predictable cycle, management excludes the amortization of intangible assets, transaction, transition and integration costs, TiVo Acquisition litigation, retention earn-outs payable to former shareholders of acquired businesses, remeasurement of contingent consideration and gain on settlement of acquired receivables from its Non-GAAP financial measures in order to make more consistent and meaningful evaluations of the Company's operating expenses as these items may be significantly impacted by the timing and magnitude of acquisitions. Management also excludes the effect of depreciation, restructuring and asset impairment charges, additional depreciation resulting from facility rationalization actions, expenses in connection with the extinguishment or modification of debt and gains on the sale of strategic investments. Management excludes the impact of equity-based compensation to provide meaningful supplemental information that allows investors greater visibility to the underlying performance of our business operations, facilitates comparison of our results with other periods, and may facilitate comparison with the results of other companies in our industry, as well as to provide the Company's management with an important tool for financial and operational decision making and for evaluating the Company's performance over different periods of time. Due to varying valuation techniques, reliance on subjective assumptions and the variety of award types and features that may be in use, we believe that providing Non-GAAP financial measures excluding equity-based compensation allows investors to make more meaningful comparisons between our operating results and those of other companies. Management excludes the amortization or write-off of note issuance costs and discounts on convertible debt, accretion of contingent consideration and mark-to-market adjustments for interest rate swaps when management evaluates the Company's expenses. Management reclassifies the current period benefit (cost) of the interest rate swaps from gain (loss) on interest rate swaps to interest expense in order for Non-GAAP Interest Expense to reflect the effects of the interest rate swaps as these interest rate swaps were entered into to control the effective interest rate the Company pays on its debt.

Management uses these Non-GAAP financial measures to help it make decisions, including decisions that affect operating expenses and operating margin. Management believes that making Non-GAAP financial information available to investors, in addition to GAAP financial information, may facilitate more consistent comparisons between the Company's performance over time with the performance of other companies in our industry, which may use similar financial measures to supplement their GAAP financial information.

Management recognizes that these Non-GAAP financial measures have limitations as analytical tools, including the fact that management must exercise judgment in determining which types of items to exclude from the Non-GAAP financial information. In addition, as other companies, including companies similar to TiVo Corporation, may calculate their Non-GAAP financial measures differently than the Company calculates its Non-GAAP financial measures, these Non-GAAP financial measures may have limited usefulness to investors when comparing financial performance among companies. Management believes, however, that providing Non-GAAP financial information, in addition to GAAP financial information, facilitates consistent comparison of the Company's financial performance over time. The Company provides Non-GAAP financial information to the investment community, not as an alternative, but as an important supplement to GAAP financial information; to enable investors to evaluate the Company's core operating performance in the same way that management does. Reconciliations for each Non-GAAP financial measure to its most directly comparable GAAP financial measure are provided in the tables below.

About TiVo Corporation

TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO) is a global leader in entertainment technology and audience insights. From the interactive program guide to the DVR, TiVo delivers innovative products and licensable technologies that revolutionize how people find content across a changing media landscape. TiVo enables the world's leading media and entertainment providers to deliver the ultimate entertainment experience. Explore the next generation of entertainment at tivo.com, forward.tivo.com or follow us on Twitter @tivo or @tivoforbusiness.

Forward Looking Statements

This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements relate to, among other things, the Company's estimates of future financial performance, including future revenues, earnings, expenses, and dividends, as well as future business strategies and future product offerings, deployments and technology and intellectual property licenses with various named customers. These forward-looking statements are based on TiVo's current expectations, estimates and projections about its business and industry, management's beliefs and certain assumptions made by the company, all of which are subject to change. Forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as, "future", "believe," "expect," "may," "will," "intend," "estimate," "continue," or similar expressions or the negative of those terms or expressions. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to vary materially from those expressed in or indicated by the forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially include delays and higher costs in connection with the integration of TiVo Inc. (now known as TiVo Solutions Inc.), delays in development, competitive service offerings and lack of market acceptance, as well as the other potential factors described under "Risk Factors" included in TiVo's Annual Report on Form 10-K for fiscal year ended December 31, 2016, its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2017, and other documents of TiVo Corporation on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (available at www.sec.gov). TiVo cautions you not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which reflect an analysis only and speak only as of the date hereof. TiVo assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements in order to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date of this release, except as required by law.

(1) Due to their nature, changes in the mark-to-market of interest rate swaps have only been included in the outlook to the extent they have already occurred. Actual results may differ materially from the outlook.

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