RADIO BILINGUE INC
5005 E Belmont Ave, Fresno, CA 93727 www.radiobilingue.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Radio Bilinge is the national Latino noncommercial radio network and the prominent producer of Latino programming in public broadcasting. With 14 full-power FM radio stations, 10 repeaters and 80 affiliates. Radio Bilinge is the nations prominent producer and broadcaster of indigenous language radio programming. Radio Bilinges mission is to serve as a voice to empower Latinos and other underserved communities.

Radio Bilinge is the national Latino non-commercial radio network and the prominent producer of Latino-oriented programming in public broadcasting. Founded in 1977, Radio Bilinge's (RB) owned stations in California are KSJV 91.5 FM Fresno, KMPO 88.7 FM Modesto-Stockton, KTQX 90.1 FM Bakersfield, KHDC 90.9 FM Salinas, KUBO 88.7 FM El Centro, KVUH 88.5 FM Mendocino, and Radio Bilinge has low power repeaters in California in Coachella, Paso Robles, Palmdale/Lancaster, Santa Maria, Barstow, Hollister, San Luis Obispo, Livermore. Radio Bilinge also has full power stations in Southern Colorado (Alamosa), Arizona (Douglas) on the Mexican border, New Mexico (Chama, Raton, Silver City) on the Mexican border and south Texas (Crystal City, Zapata, Rio Grande City, Presidio) all along the Mexican border. Radio Bilinge has one low power repeater in Yuma, Arizona. As the prominent producer and broadcaster of indigenous oriented programming in the U.S., Radio Bilinge broadcasts in Mixteco, Zapoteco and Triqui languages with farmworker programmers from these indigenous communities speaking native languages addressing indigenous areas of need and celebrating indigenous music. Radio Bilinge is also committed to lifting Latino youth voices by putting Latino youth on the air and providing training to youth on the art of radio since it began broadcasting in 1980. Radio Bilinge's daily national news and information programs respond to the gap in coverage on Latino issues in commercial and public media, and are carried by more than 80 radio stations in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Mexico. Lnea Abierta, produced by Radio Bilinge since 1995, is the first-and-only live national Latino-oriented talk show in the U.S. public broadcasting system. Radio Bilinges weekend Edicin Semanaria of Noticiero Latino is the only Spanish language newscast in public broadcasting in Spanish, featuring reports from journalists based throughout the U.S. and Mexico. Health, education, economic opportunity, the environment, emergency preparedness, immigration, civic engagement, and arts programming are prominent in Radio Bilinge's service. Radio Bilinge has developed special expertise on news and public affairs coverage of health, and environmental issues impacting Latinos, including prevention and resources for participating in community improvements. Radio Bilinge is committed to building a healthier community and to providing information that is relevant to the lives of Latino families. Radio Bilinge listeners get reliable information on topics such as dealing with diabetes and other chronic diseases. Radio Bilinge has implemented campaigns on preventing breast cancer, AIDS and many other diseases, and on worker health and safety. Radio Bilinge's coverage of the environment recognizes that Latino communities often are impacted disproportionately by environmental hazards and other challenges. Radio Bilinge's mission calls for promoting education and access to education - from early childhood education to K-12 to higher education. Millions of youth in the Latino community do not graduate from high school. Latinos are not adequately represented in institutions of higher education. Radio Bilinge promotes parent involvement in the learning of their children on its airwaves along with demystifying - to students and their parents -- the preparation and qualifications to enter a four-year university. Other parenting advice and tips are presented through the regular live interactive talk shows. Radio Bilinge strives to inform youth about healthy choices and leadership development. We collaborate with youth programmers and health organizations in teen pregnancy prevention and in developing healthy relationships. We encourage our Latino youth to identify issues in their community and to explore solutions to these issues on the radio.Radio Bilinge also promotes traditional arts such as mariachi music, jarocho, trio, Tejano, conjunto, Norteo, banda, Chilenas, salsa and other Latino genres. We also present jazz, oldies, Rock en Espaol and other musical offerings that our listeners appreciate in Radio Bilinge's positive community-oriented non-commercial format. Radio Bilinge reaches out to other disenfranchised minorities in the communities we serve, including transnational programming for the Mixteco and Triqui indigenous communities in their native languages. We serve the African-American community in the Imperial Valley, the only media to do so. Radio Bilinge is committed to promoting civic engagement and collaborates with nonpartisan nonprofits that work to promote registration and participation of voters at the local, state, and national levels.During the pandemic Radio Bilinges commitment to serve essential workers and their families in their own language proved how invaluable this radio service is. At a time when the Washington administration was doing all it could to minimize the participation of Latinos and the undocumented on the 2020 Census, Radio Bilinge joined hundreds of on-the-ground nonprofit partners to educate and encourage the hard to reach to participate. The result was a record participation of the hard to reach in every community in California that Radio Bilinge serves with its radio signals 24/7. When the on-the-ground nonprofits doing Census outreach could no longer knock-on doors because of the pandemic, many turned to Radio Bilinge for their messaging. It was a historical pivot and win for the hard-to-reach communities. It is Radio Bilinge, as a trusted messenger for over four decades, that provides reliable information on the COVID-19 virus and the vaccine to reach the Latino community, a community disproportionally affected, including by the number of deaths from COVID-19.Radio Bilinge recognizes the importance of the U.S.-Mexican border community and has strategically built and operates radio stations from the Mexican border in California to the Rio Grande Valley in Texas serving the community on both sides of the border. Radio Bilinge is a border radio service.Radio Bilinge is a transnational service by virtue of its own stations but also through partnerships in Mexico. Radio Bilinge is broadcast live by indigenous service radio stations in Oaxaca and in Baja California Norte in Mexico that serve transnational farmworker indigenous families in their own languages.

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