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New
BBC radio and internet deal in Mexico
BBC
Latin American Service programmes will now be broadcast from four
FM stations of the Tec of Monterrey University campuses based in
Monterrey, Guadalajara, Mexico City and Mexico State.
Latin
America's largest private university will also broadcast programmes
via their internet site.
The
launch will take place tomorrow (Wednesday 30 April 2003) on the
campus of Tec of Monterrey in Mexico City.
A signing
ceremony will be attended by James Painter, Head of the Spanish
American Section of the BBC World Service; Dr Rafael Rangel Sostmann,
Rector of the Tec of Monterrey University and Denise Holt, the British
Ambassador in Mexico.
James
Painter says: "This agreement is of great importance to the
BBC World Service.
"The
Tec has a huge reputation for academic excellence and innovative
learning methods in and outside Mexico.
"It's
a sure way of reaching a new generation of listeners."
Dr
Rafael Rangel Sostmann added: "The signing of this agreement
between the Tecnológico de Monterrey and the BBC marks an
important step for the Institute's journalism and communication
students, both broadening their horizons at an international level
and connecting them with one of the world's most prestigious institutions."
The
signing of the deal coincides with a series of training courses
that the BBC is giving to more than 100 students from the Tec of
Monterrey and journalists from the BBC's partner stations in Mexico.
The
courses, which focus on BBC editorial principles and the coverage
of human rights, are funded by the Human Rights Project Fund and
organised and promoted by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
The
winner of a competition organised by the Tec of Monterrey's journalism
department will also be announced at the ceremony.
The
prize is one month work experience in London with the BBC World
Service.
In
addition, the British Embassy is organising two scholarship places
for Mexican journalists to also spend three months with the BBC.
Notes
to Editors
BBC
programmes to have wider reach in the south of Mexico
(19.09.02)
The
programmes of BBC Spanish are transmitted by satellite to more than
25 stations in Mexico and more than 100 throughout Latin America.
BBC
partners in Mexico include Ricardo Rocha´s Detras de la Noticia,
Radio Educación, IMER and La Red Nacional de Radiofusoras
y Televisoras Educativas y Culturales.
BBC
Spanish also broadcasts on shortwave and is available in Real Audio
via the internet at www.bbcmundo.com
The
Tec of Monterrey consists of 32 campuses in Mexico and a Virtual
University with centres in Mexico and Latin America.
It
has offices in Asia, Europe and the USA. Its 95,000 students receive
courses from more than 7,000 teachers and professors.
BBC
World Service broadcasts programmes around the world in 43 languages
and is available on radio and online at www.bbcworldservice.com
It
has a global audience of 150 million listeners.
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