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

KBRG

KBRG is a Spanish-language station in San Jose, California. It is the oldest surviving Spanish music station in the San Francisco Bay Area, having first appeared in the 1960s or earlier as 105.3 . It moved to 104.9 in December 1983, and then to 100.3 in a three-station swap on December 31, 1997...

 and KLOK-AM, in 1992. After its purchase of Embarcadero Media

Embarcadero Media

Embarcadero Media is the parent company of the Palo Alto Weekly, Palo Alto Online, the Pacific Sun and several other community Weeklies and Websites. Founded in 1979 by William Johnson....

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

Radio Romántica

Radio Romántica was a name used by EXCL Communications for various Spanish-language radio stations from the 1990s through 2005. The earliest known reference to Radio Romántica is from 1997, at which time KBRG San Francisco, KJMN Denver, KRZY-FM Albuquerque, an unknown Salinas station, and another...

 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.