San Francisco, CA. Radio Bilingüe is pleased to announce the launch of an online service featuring its public broadcast service to Spanish-speaking Texas audiences. The website is available at: www.radiobilingue.org and includes news and information compiled from the Edición Texas de Línea Abierta, a weekly special edition aired via satellite as part of the mid-day Radio Bilingüe’s flagship call-in service.

Funded in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the website hosts an archive of radio program descriptions aired from Texas or about specific Texas issues. The Edición Texas de Línea Abierta website also includes links to relevant community activities and festivals, bilingual publishing houses, and bilingual newspapers in Texas.

The Edición Texas de Línea Abierta is a weekly call-in program featuring informational sources and news topics of special interest to Texas audiences, including Conjunto music legends, immigrant mega-rallies, experts on the environmental woes of the Rio Grande, and correspondents who filed stories from the Gulf Coast disaster area. The program is part of the series Línea Abierta, a weekday Spanish-language talk show broadcasting on the national public radio satellite system. The Texas edition is hosted by Carlos Spector Calderón, an El Paso-based attorney who has served as a news commentator for Radio Bilingüe for about ten years.

The radio program Edición Texas is also funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and is also possible through a collaboration with XERF 1570 AM in Ciudad Acuña and XHUAR Órbita 106.7 FM in Ciudad Juárez, stations of Mexico’s public radio network Instituto Mexicano de la Radio. The powerful signal of these stations on the Mexican border serves audiences throughout Southern Texas.

With main offices in Fresno and San Francisco, Radio Bilingüe is the national Latino public radio network. The network distributes news, music
and information to 95 affiliates in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Mexico.