United Kingdom/Americas: BBC Launches Morning Show for Spanish Speakers Worldwide
Posted on: Tuesday, 11 October 2005, 06:00 CDT
Text of press release by BBC World Service on 10 October
Spanish speakers across the world will be connected via the BBC's new global interactive radio and online show, BBC Mundo Hoy.
Launching at 10 a.m. GMT on Monday 10 October on BBC partner stations and online at bbcmundo.com, this hour-long weekday news and current affairs programme is an unprecedented pan-Spanish American forum for exchange of views and opinions on issues spanning the Spanish-speaking world.
BBC Mundo Hoy is presented by Luis Fernando Restrepo, who will be connecting the audiences through live link-ups with the BBC's unparalleled network of correspondents in Latin America, Spain and the UK.
The show also offers news summaries, documentaries and interviews with key people making the news.
A video on bbcmundo.com introduces the team to listeners and online diaspora audiences around the world.
Julia Zapata, head of the BBC Spanish American Service, says: "Our common language is what truly unites us, and BBC Mundo Hoy aims to be the meeting point for the Spanish-speaking world, setting the day's agenda and providing the radio and online forum for a free exchange of opinion."
Luis del Valle, BBC Spanish American Radio Editor, adds: "The BBC Mundo Hoy team is as diverse as life itself and our journalists are speckled all over the world. We will be using this brilliant force to provide our audiences with more top-notch news and information, and to generate a lively exchange of experiences, ideas and dreams among these very audiences."
BBC Mundo Hoy can be heard on the following partner stations in Latin America:
Argentina: FM Universidad de Belgrano 90.9 [MHz FM].
Bolivia: Radio Fides, national broadcaster.
Colombia: RCN, through any of their stations on FM, La FM, 106.9 FM de la Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, HJCK El Mundo en Bogota 89.9 FM.
Ecuador: Radio City 89.3 FM in Guayaquil and 99.7 FM in Salinas, Antena 1 90.5 FM in Cuenca.
Mexico: Teleradio AW 1280 AM, Radio Metropoli 1150 AM.
Puerto Rico: WPAB-550-Ponce.
Satellite channel: Sirius in EEUU [USA] and in Mexico on channel 182
Source: BBC Monitoring Media
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