The Radio Campesina network has grown from one small rural station in California's San Joaquin Valley to nine stations and broadcast licenses with syndicated musical, news and educational programming reaching 500,000 loyal daily listeners in Arizona, California, Washington state, Oregon and across the international border into northern Mexico. Radio Campesina is ranked among the top radio stations in each of its markets.
Wide reach across the West. Radio Campesina boasts a wide reach over four states from the Pacific Northwest to the other side of the Mexican border.
� Blanketing California's great Central Valley from Grapevine in the south to north of Fresno and from the west valley to the eastern Sierra foothills in what is the country's largest farming region.
� Covering the lengthy Salinas Valley from the rolling wine grape vineyards at the southern end of Monterey County to the rich strawberry and vegetable fields and sprawling nurseries in parts of the Pajaro Valley around Watsonville.
� Broadcasting into the Valley of the Sun out of Phoenix, Arizona, one of the largest metropolitan regions in the U.S. and the flashpoint of the current charged immigration debate.
� Reaching into the Yuma Valley and Colorado River Valley around Parker, Arizona as well as the adjoining eastern Imperial Valley in California and northern portions of the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California around San Luis Rio Colorado and Mexicali.
� Covering the lower Columbia Basin of Washington state and the fertile farm country of northeastern Oregon.
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KNAI Phoenix
KNAI, one of the most popular radio stations in its market in either English or Spanish, serves the Valley of the Sun encompassing Phoenix and its environs, the fifth largest municipality and 12th largest metropolitan area in the nation, where 42 percent of the population is Latino. KNAI is in the epicenter of the highly charged and volatile immigration debate now taking place across the nation.
KNAI's listenership features Latinos in the service, entertainment, manufacturing and construction industries and day laborer field as well as young business people and professionals, many college educated, and veteran Latino activists attracted by Campesina's contemporary content embracing issues about which they care deeply.
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KCEC Yuma
Serving the southwestern portion of Arizona from the heart of the nation's winter vegetable production where Cesar Chavez was born outside Yuma - and where more than 50 percent of the population is Latino's CEC also reaches into the neighboring Imperial Valley of California and into the northern parts of the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California, including Mexicali and San Luis Rio Colorado.
KCEC's listening audience features Latinos in the farm, food processing, service, entertainment, manufacturing and construction industries and day laborer field as well as young business people and professionals, many of them college educated, plus veteran Latino activists attracted by Campesina’s contemporary content embracing issues about which they care deeply. The station also carries over the Mexican border where it attracts a large population of Mexican citizens who regularly cross the border to work or shop and who rely on KCEC to keep updated about Latino issues.
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KMYX Bakersfield
KMYX serves the southern Central Valley amidst the largest agricultural region in America employing the most farm workers from north of Delano, where Cesar Chavez founded the farm worker movement, south to the Grapevine - and where altogether more than 42 percent of the population is Latino.
KMYX's listenership is composed of large numbers of farm and food processing workers plus Latinos in the service, entertainment, manufacturing and construction industries. As the Latino community has been transformed since Cesar Chavez founded Radio Campesina so has its audience, which now embraces second-generation listeners, many of whom are young college-educated business people and professionals as well as Latino activists drawn by the station and network - contemporary content embracing issues about which they care deeply.
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KUFW Visalia
Radio Campesina's first station, KUFW, serves much of the rest of the largest agricultural region in the country employing the most farm workers in the Central Valley It reaches as far as north of Fresno. Altogether, about 40 percent of the population is Latino.
KUFW's listenership features large numbers of farm and food processing workers plus Latinos in the service, entertainment, manufacturing and construction industries. As the Latino community has been transformed since Cesar Chavez founded KUFW in the 1980s so has its audience, which now includes second-generation listeners, many of whom are young college-educated business people and professionals as well as Latino activists attracted by the Campesina's contemporary content embracing issues about which they care deeply.
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KSEA Salinas
The region served by KSEA is called "the Salad Bowl of the Nation" because the rich Salinas Valley where it is centered is home for much of the nation's lettuce and vegetable production from spring through fall. KSEA reaches from south of San Jose all the way to southern Monterey County, where altogether well over 70 percent of the population is Latino.
KSEA's listening audience features large numbers of farm and food processing workers plus Latinos in the service, entertainment, manufacturing and construction industries. As the Latino community has dramatically changed since Cesar Chavez founded Campesina so has its audience, which now includes second-generation listeners, many of whom are young college-educated business people and professionals as well as Latino activists drawn by the station and network's contemporary content covering issues about which they care deeply.
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KRCW Tri Cities
Serving southeastern Washington state, KRCW's reach also stretches across the state border into northeastern Oregon, which is also heavily agricultural. Altogether, about 40 percent of the area's population is Latino.
KRCW's audience includes farm and food processing workers plus Latinos in other vital economic sectors. As the Latino community has been transformed since Cesar Chavez founded Campesina so has its audience, which now includes second-generation listeners, many of whom are young college-educated business people and professionals as well as Latino activists attracted by the station and network's contemporary content covering issues about which they care deeply.
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KRIT Parker
Serving the county seat of La Paz County, Arizona on the California-Arizona border in an agriculturally-rich region, KRIT serves a population that is 30 percent Latino.
The population covered by KRIT includes Latinos working in the fields and in other key economic sectors. It also includes second-generation residents, many of whom are young college-educated business people and professionals as well as Latino activists.
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KBHH Fresno
This Fresno station also serves a significant portion of the largest agricultural region in the country employing the most farm workers in the Central Valley out of California's fifth largest city. Nearly 45 percent of the area's population is Latino.
The population covered by KNAI includes Latinos in the farm, food processing, service, entertainment, manufacturing and construction industries as well as young business people and professionals, many college educated, and veteran Latino activists.
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KBDS Bakersfield
This station also serves the southern Central Valley in the middle of the largest agricultural region in the United States employing the most farm workers and where more than 42 percent of the population is Latino.
The population covered by KBDS includes many farm and food processing workers plus Latinos in the service, entertainment, manufacturing and construction industries, and second-generation residents, many of whom are young college-educated business people and professionals as well as Latino activists.
