EXCL Communications was a Spanish-language broadcasting company founded in 1989 by Athena and Christopher Marks. It acquired its first radio stations, San Jose, California's KBRG and KLOK from brothers Danny Villanueva and James Villanueva (Radio América, Inc) in 1989. After its purchase of

Embarcadero Media Embarcadero Media is the parent company of the ''Palo Alto Weekly'', '' The Almanac'' of Menlo Park, the ''Mountain View Voice'', the ''Pleasanton Weekly'', The Six Fifty, and Palo Alto Online. It was founded in 1979 by William Johnson, who serve ...

in 1997, it owned and operated 18 radio stations (many of which used the

Radio Romántica Radio Romántica was a name used by EXCL Communications (later Entravision) for various Spanish-language radio stations from the 1990s through 2005. The earliest known reference to Radio Romántica is from 1997, at the time when EXCL moved KBRG 104 ...

format), making it the third largest Spanish radio group in the United States. EXCL was a division of Latin Communications Group from March 1996 until April 20, 2000, when Latin Communications Group was purchased by Entravision.Entravision Communications Investor Relations
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