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Belleville News Democrat: New Spanish-language raido service at U of I
http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/10943981.htm

"URBANA, Ill. - If you long for radio in your native Spanish, or just want to brush up your language skills, say "hola" to 1660-AM.

A new Latino Radio Service has been broadcasting at the University of Illinois since Jan. 3, though you may have to drive to campus to hear it.

WGN it's not. The low-power station has no studio, nor even a microphone, and its broadcast range is limited. The station transmits through a 12-foot antenna on top of Bevier Hall, and the control room is a desktop computer in a campus office.

The station is sponsored by La Casa Cultural Latina - the Latino cultural center on campus - and is a fully automated campus radio station with programming from the Internet. It's "almost certainly" the only one broadcasting in Spanish and Portuguese, said founder and station manager Gary Cziko, an education professor fascinated by language, radio and the Internet.

"I've been here for 14 years, and we've been longing for this. It's well overdue," said La Casa director Giraldo Rosales, who is also chair of the Champaign County Latino Partnership."

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