The award-winning Noticiero Latino daily newscast has covered the Latino beat since 1985. It is the first and only national news service in public radio reaching out to Spanish-speaking audiences.

Línea Abierta takes on anti-bilingual Proposition 227 in California. A weekly call-in series examines the issue and culminates on the eve of Election Day with a live-audience roundtable.

Línea Abierta airs live plenary on Health in the New Millennium from the COSSHMO conference in Puerto Rico.

The 1998 Noticiero Latino Fellowships program is launched with funding from the John D. and Catherine T. Mac Arthur Foundation.

Línea Abierta awarded a prize by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

Special series on mental health among Latinos. A live across-the-border call-in panel is broadcast from Guadalajara, Mexico, home of many migrants.

Special series hosted by veteran Mexican journalist Paco Huerta, a dialogue with Mexican émigrés. Messages to their public officials and fellow countrypeople.

Noticiero Latino reports on the beginning of welfare reform. The woes of day care, job training, public stigma, and others are examined in this news feature series.

WRTE-FM, Radio Arte, in Chicago joins the satellite network as a programming partner.

Línea Abierta receives a Golden Reel recognition by the National Federation of Community Broadcasters.

Silver Reel for Noticiero Latino from the NFCB

With a special coverage of the Democratic and Republican Presidential Conventions, Línea Abierta begins its expanded, two-hour daily edition.

The San Francisco News Bureau begins operations in the studios of Western Public Radio.

Línea Abierta goes on the air. A live broadcast via satellite from the conference of the National Association of Community Broadcasters in Albuquerque, marks the beginning of the first international weekday call-in show in public radio.

Línea Abierta goes on the road. The Línea Abierta team originates roundtable programs from Los Angeles, El Paso, Kansas City, Miami and San Juan, Puerto Rico. The series focuses on communities struggling and building projects to overcome ethnic conflicts.

The Noticiero Latino Fellowships begin second training program for news producers from around the nation and Mexico.

Hispanic Publishers Association distinguishes leading women producers of Noticiero Latino.

Election day coverage. California voters pass Proposition 187, mandating cuts to public benefits against immigrants.

Noticiero Latino receives the excellence award from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters.

Special live national broadcast of the funeral of Cesar Chavez: union veterans tell stories about the early days and organizers share dreams of the future.

Silver Reel for Outstanding National News Programming from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters.

First-ever Spanish-language hour-to-hour coverage of November 2 Presidential Elections broadcast nationally. Over four thousand Latinos elected to public office; Latinos in Congress swell ranks.

Latino producers and reporters from throughout the nation refine their skills in Noticiero's newsroom, under a Fellowship Program supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

North American Free Trade Agreement. Free trade negotiations between the United States, Mexico and Canada are announced as representing a new age in the economic and political relations of the continent. Noticiero's correspondents report from border communities and capital cities in the US and Mexico on the conflicting views of politicians, unions, growers, environmentalists, artists and human rights activists on what has been heralded "the age of open borders."

Silver Reels for Noticiero from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters: one for live national satellite coverage of congressional hearings on border violence, and another for Noticiero's ongoing daily news service.

More News from Mexico. Noticiero increases its coverage of news about Mexico, along with an information exchange with Mexico's Radio Educación and Sistema Nacional de Noticieros del IMER.

NEA Rejection. Noticiero Latino is the first public broadcasting organization to reject a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, maintaining that the NEA obscenity clause violates freedom of speech, the First Constitutional Amendment.

Media Institute Hispanic Journalism Award. Noticiero Latino receives honors from Washington-based institute for uncovering the death of a young Mexican migrant, Ismael Ramirez, who died while in custody of the U.S. Border Patrol.

Immigrant Children in the Schools. One hundred twenty stations carry Noticiero's bilingual satellite series of one-hour talk shows documenting how thousands of children from around the world are impacting the U.S. schools and the barriers to their education.

Earthquake! Hundreds of reporters from around the world descend on San Francisco's Marina district the day after the Big One, but Noticiero Latino's producers head for Watsonville, right at the quake's epicenter, where migrant workers go for weeks with a severe shortage of shelter, clothing, water and food. The critical lack of bilingual emergency workers is brought to the attention of listeners and government.

English Only. Noticiero Latino analyzes the passage of English Only initiatives in Arizona, Colorado and Florida.

Amnesty. Noticiero has reported closely on the Immigration Control and Reform Act (IRCA) from its early drafting in Congress and now launches a series of satellite call-in programs "Beyond the New Law." Debates over family unity, legalization fees and employers' discrimination in response to sanctions are featured. More than 70 stations broadcast this series.

Tornado Victims. Months after the disaster in the migrant town of Zaragoza, Texas, the victims still wait for promised relief. This feature series earned an AP award for correspondent Teresa Quevedo.

Elections. In breakthrough campaigns, the first two Latinos in history are elected to office in Chicago. In Los Angeles, Gloria Molina wins a seat as the first Latina City Council member.

In its first year on the air, Noticiero's series Acontecer Campesino wins a Golden Reel Award from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters for a feature about women in the fields, Trabajadoras del Campo.

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