June 18, 1999
Radio Bilingüe, the Latino public radio network, will begin airing in Tijuana and San Diego thanks to a broadcasting agreement with sister station XHITT-88.7 FM Radio Tecnológico of Tijuana, Baja California Norte, Mexico.
Using satellite technology, Radio Tecnológico will broadcast Línea Abierta, Radio Bilingüe's flagship program, to a potential audience of over two million Spanish-speaking residents in the Tijuana/San Diego border area. Línea Abierta, the only national Spanish-language radio call-in show will debut on June 15 with a live interactive conversation from the studios of Radio Tecnológico in Tijuana, the fastest-growing city in Mexico. The California-based program is hosted by Samuel Orozco whose interviews cover current developments on a variety of topics that span health, political, and educational issues of interest to Latinos. The two-hour program runs Monday through Friday, including a weekly edition from Puerto Rico and Mexico City on Thursdays.
The broadcast agreement will be announced at a special ceremony on June 15 beginning at 11:00 a.m. at the studios of XHITT-88.7 FM at Cerro de la Silla and Cerralvo, Fraccionamiento Monterrey in Tijuana, Baja California. The agreement will also create collaborative radio productions, training and technical support and will be signed into effect by Engineer Manuel Castillo Sánchez, Director of the Instituto Tecnológico of Tijuana and Mr. Hugo Morales, Executive Director of Radio Bilingue. The ceremony will be followed by the premiere broadcast of Línea Abierta from Tijuana, with a program addressing migrant protection, free trade, maquila investments and other issues in this area.
Radio Bilingüe is a national network of five community stations and 65 affiliates that distributes news, information, music and cultural programming to underserved audiences in the United States, Puerto Rico and Northern Mexico. Its distinctive 24-hour programming radio service will soon go live worldwide via the Internet thanks to a partnership with California State University, San Marcos, host of the real-time audio online stream, and National Public Radio.
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