EXCL Communications was a Spanish-language broadcasting company founded in 1989 by Athena and Christopher Marks.[1] It acquired its first radio stations, San Jose, California's KBRG and KLOK-AM, in 1992. After its purchase of Embarcadero Media in 1997,[2] it owned and operated 18 radio stations (many of which used the Radio Romántica 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.[3]