Meruelo Media Closes on KLOS and KXOS in Los Angeles

RADIO ONLINE | Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Meruelo Media

Meruelo Media has closed on its purchase of Rock KLOS-FM (95.5)/Los Angeles from Cumulus Media and Regional Mexican KXOS-FM (93.9) from Grupo Radio Centro. KLOS and KXOS become the sixth and seventh stations in Meruelo Media's Los Angeles cluster, which includes KPWR-FM, KDAY-FM and KDEY-FM, as well as television stations KWHY-TV and KBEH. Meruelo Media plans to relocate KLOS's operations from Culver City to its Burbank facility later this year, while KXOS already operates there.

The company's current executive team is taking the reins of KLOS's operations, with Otto Padron serving as interim Market Manager, Tomas Trujillo overseeing the day-to-day operations, VP of Client Solutions David Criscitelli overseeing sales activities and VP of Marketing Dianna Jason overseeing communication and marketing activities. KLOS PD Keith Cunningham will continue to serve in his role.

Irma Barrios adds KXOS to her existing duties as General Manager of KWHY-TV and Emmanuel "DJ E-Man" Coquia will assume interim music and programming duties for KXOS.

Meruelo Media President Otto Padron said, "Two closes in one day. We are thrilled to add 93.9 KXOS and 95.5 KLOS to the Meruelo Media family. This is the beginning of a new and exciting chapter in LA media."

Speaking about KLOS, he continued, "We are absolutely committed to the amazing heritage Rock brand of KLOS. We are electrified to officially close on our purchase of the station and begin a new chapter of this legendary brand together with its amazing cadre of talented employees and iconic personalities. It will give Meruelo Media great scale and access to a highly desirable market sector in addition to giving our clients and partners a newly energized local option."

Padron added, "In turn, we will commit to KLOS our deep hyper-local operational and content resources that will drive significant audience growth for a larger share of advertising dollars." On KXOS, Padron said, "Stand by, exciting news about KXOS coming soon."