Arbitron's "Hispanic Radio Today 2011," offers a detailed look at the radio listening habits and consumer insight among U.S. Hispanics, who now number 49.1 million people, or 16 percent of the U.S. population.

This new edition of the annual report reviews 16 formats, including 10 Spanish-language choices and six English-language formats.

According to the report, “Radio's reach among both English-dominant and Spanish-dominant listeners sits between 95 percent and 96 percent -- a slight uptick from HISPANIC RADIO TODAY 2010.”

Arbitron reports that radio reached Hispanic men and women equally strong, attracting 97 percent of Hispanic men 35-54 and of women...

Many marketers have the assumption that Spanish-dominant and even bilingual Hispanics are not online or at least not as much as English-dominant Hispanics or the general U.S. population. Portada reports that a study published by Ipsos MediaCT indicates this is not the case. In fact, if anything, Spanish-dominant Hispanics are more digitally engaged than their English-dominant and general market counterparts.

These are the most outstanding results of the study:

• Digital Hispanics across the language spectrum are in fact a digitally dynamic population who, much like their non-Hispanic counterparts, live in a multi-tasking, multi-screen, multi-content...

New America Media reports that after nearly a decade of serving the Central Valley, the Spanish-language weekly El Sol De Visalia, printed its last edition in late December. The newspaper, which was published by the Gannett-owned Visalia Delta Times, had not been faring well in the economic downturn, according to Eduardo Stanley, its editor since 2006.

In the state's Central Valley, home to a large concentration of Spanish-speaking communities, El Sol's closure is not an isolated case. In the last decade, a string of corporate owned as well as smaller, independent publications have closed their doors, a phenomenon that...

Phones at the radio studios on the outskirts of town kept ringing. Saul from Visalia lamented cuts to public education, calling in on a December afternoon to Linea Abierta, the first nationwide Spanish-language public affairs show. Miguel from Madera asked how county taxes are distributed and Manuel from Calexico wanted to know whether schools still receive lottery funds.
The public affairs show is produced daily by Radio Bilingue, the nation’s only public, non-commercial Spanish-language radio network. With seven FM stations in California and more than 100 affiliates nationwide airing its programs, the Fresno-based network reaches an estimated 500,000 Latino listeners per week.

Controlled by Latinos and run by a...