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<h1 class="gmail-article-title" style="margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:2.8125rem;line-height:1.1;font-family:"Roboto Condensed",arial,helvetica,verdana,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;text-transform:none">Radio Tierra gives Gorge’s Spanish-speaking community a voice</h1><div class="gmail-article-eyebrow" style="margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1;font-family:"Roboto Condensed",arial,helvetica,verdana,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;text-transform:uppercase"><a href="https://www.koin.com/news/special-reports/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,94,168);text-decoration:none">SPECIAL REPORTS</a></div><div class="gmail-article-lead-text" style="margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font-style:italic;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:400;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.5rem;line-height:1.2;font-family:lora,georgia,times,serif;vertical-align:baseline;text-transform:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">The bilingual community radio station was first envisioned in 1999. Now it's getting international reach</p></div><div class="gmail-article-meta" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 1rem;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:0.875rem;line-height:2;font-family:arial,helvetica,verdana,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">by:<span> </span><a href="https://www.koin.com/author/hannah-ray-lambert/" title="Posts by Hannah Ray Lambert" class="gmail-author gmail-url gmail-fn" rel="author" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,94,168);text-decoration:none">Hannah Ray Lambert</a></p>Posted:<span> </span>Jan 23, 2020 / 09:00 AM PST<span> </span><span class="gmail-article-meta--sep" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">/<span> </span></span>Updated:<span> </span>Jan 21, 2020 / 05:02 PM PST</div><div class="gmail-article-lead-share" style="margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><div class="gmail-social-share gmail-addthis" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><div class="gmail-addthis_inline_share_toolbox" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;clear:both"><div id="gmail-atstbx" class="gmail-at-resp-share-element gmail-at-style-responsive gmail-addthis-smartlayers gmail-addthis-animated gmail-at4-show" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:0px;line-height:0;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:block;opacity:1"><span id="gmail-at-06c8d8b6-83fe-4b57-9a99-39771935a360" class="gmail-at4-visually-hidden" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;overflow:hidden"></span><div class="gmail-at-share-btn-elements" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><a tabindex="0" class="gmail-at-icon-wrapper gmail-at-share-btn gmail-at-svc-facebook" style="margin:0px 2px 5px;padding:5px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:0;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;border-radius:16px;text-transform:none;background-color:rgb(59,89,152)"><span class="gmail-at4-visually-hidden" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;overflow:hidden"></span><span class="gmail-at-icon-wrapper" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:20px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;height:20px;width:20px;float:left"></span></a><a tabindex="0" class="gmail-at-icon-wrapper gmail-at-share-btn gmail-at-svc-twitter" style="margin:0px 2px 5px;padding:5px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weig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:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Geared toward younger listeners, it features songs, stories and library announcements. Boots has been running the show for almost two years.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">“I was actually very nervous,” she said. “At first it was difficult piecing everything together like the sound waves … now it’s really easy.”</p><img src="https://www.koin.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/mike-2.jpg?w=886" alt="" class="gmail-wp-image-257380" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; height: auto; max-width: 100%;">Mike Nichols hosts a bluegrass show on Radio Tierra (Hannah Ray Lambert)<p style="margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://radiotierra.org/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,94,168);text-decoration:none">Radio Tierra</a><span> </span>has plenty of music in its rotation, including Mike Nichols’ bluegrass show “A New Kind of Lonesome.” He’s been a fan of the genre ever since he first heard it on “The Beverly Hillbillies.” Nichols used to host a show on a community radio station in Colorado, and when he moved to Hood River, he wanted to continue.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">“Everybody down here has just accepted me and my show, like it was meant to be,” he said.</p><blockquote style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;quotes:none"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:28px;line-height:1.6;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">“Radio Tierra has become this example of what can happen when people from different backgrounds, different ages, different races, different sexes can, it doesn’t matter, come together and build something amazing.”</p><cite style="margin:0px 1rem;padding:0px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:0.75rem;line-height:1.1;font-family:"Roboto Condensed",arial,helvetica,verdana,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;text-transform:uppercase">JUAN REYES, RADIO TIERRA BOARD PRESIDENT</cite></blockquote><p style="margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">The station has been growing, Reyes said, and at some point he’d like to see Radio Tierra get its own studio (right now they broadcast out of The Next Door, a local nonprofit) as well as some paid employees. They have about 20 hosts and are<span> </span><a href="https://radiotierra.org/volunteer-opportunities/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(45,94,168);text-decoration:none">always accepting more.</a></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">In 2018, they started streaming their broadcast online, reaching listeners as far away as California and Mexico (Reyes suspects they are friends or relatives of some of the DJs).</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Even in an increasingly digital age, Reyes said the majority of their listeners are still tuning in to the FM broadcast since a large number are agricultural workers.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">We’re getting information directly “to the Spanish-speaking community while they’re out there working in the orchards or packing houses, whatever that may be,” he said. “Radio Tierra has become this example of what can happen when people from different backgrounds, different ages, different races, different sexes can, it doesn’t matter, come together and build something amazing.”</p><img src="https://www.koin.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/courtesy-Juan-Reyes-2-Copy.jpg?w=900" alt="" class="gmail-wp-image-257370" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; height: auto; max-width: 100%;">About 20 people host shows on Radio Tierra, Hood River’s bilingual community radio station (Juan Reyes/Radio Tierra)<br><br><a href="https://www.koin.com/news/special-reports/radio-tierra-gives-gorges-spanish-speaking-community-a-voice/">Source</a><br></div>

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