Staff Members of Bilingual TV Show to Speak at UA

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – “Breaking Barriers with Bilingual TV: The Alabama TV Story” will take place at 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 12 in Gorgas Library room 205 on The University of Alabama campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Alabama TV is the state’s first bilingual television program. It debuted on UA’s WVUA-23 in June 2014 as a 30-minute program. It has since been lengthened to a one-hour program and airs at 1:30 p.m. each Sunday. Raul Trujillo and staff members from the Alabama headquarters in Hoover will visit Tuscaloosa to tell their story.

“It is such an honor to host the staff for a television program that is ground-breaking in connecting cultures here in Central Alabama,” said Dr. George Daniels, assistant dean and chief diversity officer for UA’s College of Communication and Information Sciences. “Best of all, the program airs on our television, WVUA. This is a rare opportunity for our students to see how cross-cultural content is produced and the impact that it can have globally.”

The event is sponsored by The College of Communication and Information Sciences, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and the Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies program.

“The visit of the Alabama TV staff is more than just an event for Hispanic Latino Heritage Month,” Daniels said.  “We see this as new way to grow our partnership with the creators of the program as our students are directly exposed to a new way of doing TV in Alabama.”