EXCL Communications was a Spanish-language broadcasting company founded in 1989 by Athena and Christopher Marks.[1] It acquired its first 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 in 1997,[2] it owned and operated 18 radio stations (many of which used the Radio Romántica format), making it one of the largest Spanish language media groups 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]