HACIA EL VOTO 2004
A LIVE COVERAGE OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION
August 16, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Patricia Hernandez
(559) 455-5782
patriciah@radiobilingue.org
Línea Abierta broadcasts a live, gavel-to-gavel coverage in Spanish of the four-day Republican National Convention in New York. The series, part of a special coverage of the national presidential conventions entitled Hacia el Voto 2004, airs the voices of party officials, political leaders, community organizers, and scholars who comment on top Latino issues. This endeavor marks the 20th anniversary of Radio Bilingue’s live, bilingual nationally-distributed broadcast of the presidential conventions, a first for Latino broadcasting. This season, Radio Bilingüe is again the only Spanish-language radio network broadcasting live the national presidential conventions.
LINEA ABIERTA PROGRAMS
WEEK OF AUGUST 30, 2004:
Monday, August 30th
Program #4299. 12:00 PDT. HEALTH. The number of uninsured families has grown in these times of widespread unemployment. President Bush has responded promising to make health insurance more affordable through association health plans, health savings accounts and refundable tax credits. Are these plans really helping to improve health care for Latinos, the most uninsured population? This Línea Abierta edition discusses the issue with guests from the Republican Party and independent commentators. The program also airs hard news and feature reports on the first night of the Republican National Convention. The program also airs news stories on street demonstrations, which are expected to be the largest at any political convention since the 60s.
Program #4300. 18:00 PDT. THE CONVENTION I. Special, live coverage of the first evening of the convention. This two-hour-long program includes segments of keynote speakers, news reports from the floor and public activities outside Madison Square Garden, and analysis by guest commentators.
Tuesday, August 31st
Program #4301. 12:00 PDT. EDUCATION. President Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act into law promising to make history by raising performance standards for all students. At a time of enormous budget deficits, are public schools in poor areas getting the money to pay for the lofty demands? In this edition of the weekday program Línea Abierta, Republicans and independent analysts discuss the Bush/Cheney agenda on public education.
Program #4302. 18:00 PDT. THE CONVENTION II. Special, two-hour live coverage of the second evening of the convention. The program includes remarks from keynote speakers, interviews from the floor, and analysis by guest commentators.
Wednesday, September 1st
Program #4304. 18:00 PDT. THE CONVENTION III. Special, two-hour live coverage of the third evening of the convention. The program includes segments of the address of the vice presidential nominee, Vice president Dick Cheney. It also includes reactions from the floor, and analysis by guest commentators. Antonio González, with the Southwest Voter Registration Project, has been invited to join this edition as a special commentator.
Thursday, September 2nd
Program #4305. 12:00 PDT. THE WAR. President Bush has pledged that, if reelected, he’ll stay the course on the war in Iraq. Analysts and Republican leaders discuss the Republican ticket’s plan to solve the war in Iraq and the national security plans. News reporters also provide stories on the convention.
Program #4306. 13:00 PDT. LATIN AMERICA. This weekly Puerto Rico edition of Línea Abierta is co-hosted from Madison Square Garden in New York by Wanda Colón Cortés. The program focuses on the Republican agenda about issues such as the calls for Puerto Rico’s self determination, the sanctions to Cuba, the relations with Venezuela, and the immigration talks with Mexico and Central America.
Program #4307. 18:00 PDT. THE CONVENTION IV. Special, two-hour live coverage of the final evening of the convention. The address and acceptance speech by presidential candidate, President George W. Bush, as well as analysis by commentators, and news from the floor are part of this program.
Program #4308. 21:00 PDT. THE CONVENTION: THE LISTENERS TURN. Pilar Marrero, analyst from La Opinión in Los Angeles, joins this simulcast with KPFK in Los Angeles to provide post-convention insights. Listeners are encouraged to call in with comments about the Republican convention finale and the presidential campaigns ahead.
Friday, September 3rd
Program #4309. 12:00 PDT. TOWARDS NOVEMBER. Highlights of the closing night of the convention air on Línea Abierta. Listeners are encouraged to comment via voice mail.
DISTRIBUTION: Public radio satellite system and online streaming (www.radiobilingue.org)
FUNDING: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting provides partial support.
Radio Bilingüe is the Latino public radio network. With satellite uplink in Fresno and national offices in San Francisco, CA, Radio Bilingüe distributes news, information and musical programming to radio affiliates throughout the U.S., Puerto Rico and Mexico.
For more information, please contact Patricia Hernandez at patriciah@radiobilingue.org.