Category: World Service
Date: 10.10.2005
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Spanish speakers across the world will be connected via the BBC's new global interactive radio and online show, BBC Mundo Hoy.
Launching at 10.00am 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.
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 Bogotá 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 Metrópoli 1150 AM.
Puerto Rico: WPAB-550-PONCE.
Satelite channel: Sirius in EEUU and in Mexico on channel 182
Notes to Editors
A photo of the BBC Mundo Hoy launch team can be downloaded from bbcmundo.com.
BBC Spanish American Service is rebroadcast by over 300 stations to almost six million people in Latin America. Its website, bbcmundo.com, is updated 24 hours a day, seven days a week and provides a wide range of information, including international news and current affairs, world economy, science, technology, arts, entertainment, chat forums, and the opportunity to learn English.
It registers more than 20 million unique users and 300 million page impressions per month.
BBC World Service is an international radio and online broadcaster delivering programmes and services in 43 languages.
It reaches 149 million listeners globally via SW, AM, FM, digital satellite and cable channels.
It has more than 2,000 partner radio stations which take BBC content, and numerous partnerships supplying content to mobile phones.
Its international online sites include audio and visual content and offer users opportunities to interact directly with world events. They receive over 330 million page impressions a month.
