{"id":513417,"date":"2026-07-07T03:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/513417\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T03:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:14:14","slug":"meruelo-media-shifts-cali-93-9-los-angeles-to-bilingual-ac-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/513417\/","title":{"rendered":"Meruelo Media Shifts \u2018Cali 93.9\u2019 Los Angeles To Bilingual AC. | Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meruelo Media has moved \u201cCali 93.9\u201d KLLI Los Angeles from Spanish CHR to a bilingual AC music approach. The change took place just before the three-day 4th of July weekend with a new positioning statement of \u201cExitos Para Nosotros,\u201d which translates to \u201cHits for Us\u201d and a playlist of popular songs from a mix of mainstream and Latin AC artists.<\/p>\n<p>A sample hour of music featured Prince \u201cI Would Die 4 U,\u201d Fuerza Regida &amp; Grupo Frontera \u201cMe Jalo,\u201d Oasis, \u201cWonderwall,\u201d Beyonce \u201cCrazy in Love,\u201d Bobby Brown \u201cEvery Little Step,\u201d Elvis Crespo \u201cSuavemente,\u201d Earth, Wind &amp; Fire \u201cSeptember,\u201d Mariah Carey \u201cFantasy,\u201d Wisin &amp; Yandel \u201cLlame Pa\u2019 Verte,\u201d Pointer Sisters \u201cI\u2019m So Excited,\u201d Ini Kamoze \u201cHere Come The Hotstepper,\u201d and Katrina &amp; The Waves \u201cWalking on Sunshine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The station <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insideradio.com\/free\/meruelo-media-debuts-cali-93-9-on-kxos-los-angeles\/article_3ed10298-a984-11e9-be4d-eb5b70bb935a.html\" target=\"_Blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">debuted in July 2019<\/a> after Meruelo closed on its $35 million purchase of then-KXOS from 93.9 Holdings\/Grupo Radio Centro. \u201cCali 93.9\u201d was the 2021 Marconi Award winner for Spanish Language Station of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>The station\u2019s lineup includes Angelica Vale, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star, radio, TV, film, and theater entertained. Vale inked a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insideradio.com\/free\/cali-93-1-morning-host-locked-in-for-three-more-years\/article_33ea52fe-dede-11ef-bbc6-6311e7663774.html\" target=\"_Blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">three-year contract extension<\/a> in January 2025. At press time the station\u2019s website has been wiped of all air talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meruelo Media has moved \u201cCali 93.9\u201d KLLI Los Angeles from Spanish CHR to a bilingual AC music approach.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,4975,157,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-513417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-free","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}