On May 1st, Radio Bilingüe, the national Latino public radio network, will open its airwaves for a full day of breaking news reports, public service announcements, and listener call-ins about the National Boycott Day or Day Without Immigrants, a day slated to rally and skip school, work and shopping to protest criminalization of immigrants and urge immigration reform.

Línea Abierta, Radio Bilingüe’s national Spanish-language call-in talk show, will run an extended, four-hour edition to provide a special coverage of the news developments around the nation. Beginning at 11 AM PDT, Línea Abierta will gather reports from correspondents and affiliate stations to bring up-to-the-minute news on the national boycott and analysis on the historic mass demonstrations. In addition, guests including civil rights leader Dolores Huerta, Congressman Luis Gutiérrez from Chicago, and others are invited to comment on pending immigration bills.

In addition to Radio Bilingüe’s six-station network, a partial list of stations joining this four-hour special segment of news and analysis include:

KBBF, Santa Rosa, CA
KERU, Blythe, CA
WCIW, Immokalee, FL
WCOM, Grassboro, NC
KBOO, Portland, OR
WOMA, Lebanon, PA
KRUC, Pharr, TX
KDNA, Granger, WA
KSVR, Mt. Vernon, WA

In Mexico, the following stations will interconnect live to the special mid-day service:

Radio Michoacán in Morelia (twelve stations)
Radio Universidad de Guadalajara (seven stations)
XERF-AM, Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila

During the rest of the day, Radio Bilingüe will move to a full-time call-in format to allow immigrant listeners to share their stories on the air. In addition, listeners will become Radio Bilingüe’s eyes and ears in the community and will be encouraged to report any civic activity or news event they witness on May 1.

With eleven years on the air, Línea Abierta continues to be the first and only live network-distributed talk show on Spanish-language radio. Línea Abierta airs on 56 stations (34 in the U.S., 20 in Mexico and 2 in Puerto Rico) and it has continuously served audiences with engaging shows designed to address compelling issues that improve the lives of Latinos.

The talk show service is a production of the six-station network Radio Bilingüe and its satellite service, Satélite Radio Bilingüe, the national Latino public radio network with headquarters in Fresno and San Francisco, CA.

Through Satélite Radio Bilingüe, the non-profit organization distributes news, information and musical programming to affiliates throughout the U.S., Puerto Rico and Mexico. Radio Bilingüe also has a live audio service online at www.radiobilingue.org.

Funding for this service is provided in part by The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The California Endowment, The Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr Fund and The James Irvine Foundation.

 

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