Connecting to Latino Public Radio Programs
Latino Station Highlight
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CHISME FROM THE LATINO STATIONS |
KANW/Albuquerque, NM recently held a successful membership drive. On November 21st, it hosts the 15 Grandes Awards for New Mexico Music. Excitement and great music reign!
KBBF/Santa Rosa, CA continues its search for a new General Manager. Meanwhile Board member, Juan Manuel Ruiz, is at the helm.
KDNA/Granger, WA is scheduled to collect stories from Latinos in their area as part of the StoryCorps Historias project. Its News Director Francisco Rios participated in the International Center for Journalists September training in Washington, D C.
KOCA/Laramie, WY seeks new members to expand its Board of Directors. As part of its community involvement it is sponsoring a mural by Denver artists Stevon Lucero for the Lincoln Community Center. The mural is 21 feet high and depicts the contributions of Hispanics in the area.
KPCN/Woodburn, OR Co-Director Erubiel Valladares-Carranza who recently returned from training by the International Center for Journalists in Washington, DC, is about to be a dad. Felicidades!
KRZA/Alamosa, CO has a new General Manager, Holly Felmlee. Welcome! This community station is partnering with StoryCorps Historias to gather stories from Taos, New Mexico (Oct 29-30, 2009) and the San Luis Valley of Colorado (Nov 2-4, 2009).
KUVO/Denver, CO. This station is also looking for a new General Manager. Right now Carlos Lando, the station’s Chief Operating Officer, is the Interim CEO. One of KUVO’s most popular programs, Cancion Mexicana, hosted by Debra Gallegos and LPRC Project Director Flo Hernandez-Ramos, was inducted into Su Teatro’s Chicano Music Hall of Fame: Musica de Colorado.
Radio Bilingue/CA has named Nicole A. Childers its Chief Content Officer for its LA project. The project will develop multimedia English-language content aimed at a young, diverse and underserved audience with a focus on the largest demographic in Los Angeles, Latinos. And Satelite Radio Bilingue is settling comfortably into many of the HD channels of public radio stations across the country.
Radio Campesina Network licensed to the United Farm Workers Union, this group of stations has endorsed the StoryCorps Historias project. Arturo Rodriguez, head of the union, was one of the speakers at the launch of the Historias project in Washington, DC.
WCIW/Immokalee, FL licensed to the Coalition of Immokalee Workers works to improve the working conditions of farm laborers in the area. After extensive efforts, the CIW and East Coast Farms recently reached an agreement with Chipotle that resulted in an increase in the pay to local tomato pickers. Under the agreement, farm workers who pick tomatoes for Chipotle will see their pay go from $.50 for a 32-pound bucket to $.82 for each 32-pound bucket of tomatoes which is a 64 percent increase for all of the tomatoes they pick for Chipotle. Chipotle can now honestly claim to serve “Food With Integrity.”
WDNA/Miami, FL just finished a very successful Miami Jazz Film Festival at the Tower Theater of Miami Dade College. This is the 13th Annual Festival. One of the feature films was “La Voz,” a French film about Hector Lavoe. Tito Puente Jr. was a special guest at a showing of a film about his father, part of the PBS Voces series from Latino Public Broadcasting. In preparation for gathering Latino stories in January 2010 as part of the StoryCorps Historias project WDNA hosted an outreach meeting with ten area organization including Aspira and Hispanic Unity.
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Miami Jazz Film Festival-Gary Keys, Tito Puente Jr, Maggie Pelleya-Kay D. Ray |
WIPR/San Juan, PR, a joint public radio/television licensee, sponsored a community screening of the PBS/WGBH series “Latin Music USA” that was funded in part by CPB and Latino Public Broadcasting. In February WIPR will be visited by Latino Public Broadcasting which produces outstanding programs such as Voces. The focus will be on forging partnerships in the production and distribution of programming for and about Latinos.
WRTE/Chicago, IL has expanded its service by striking a partnership with Chicago Public Radio to broadcast on one of Vocalo’s HD channels.
WLCH/Lancaster, PA began its 22nd Anniversary on September 12, 2009. As part of this year-long commemoration of twenty-two years of broadcasting, WLCH personnel received the Essence of Humanity Award at a Gala on October 24 at the Host Resort.
