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Prompted by a deal made by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Sony/BMG Music Entertainment, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin has launched his own investigation into radio stations taking bribes from music labels to play specific songs.

The Univision and TeleFutura Television Groups announced the reorganization of their owned-and-operated National Sales Division dividing the country into three regions—East, Central and West. As a result, four Univision executives will be promoted to newly created positions.

As recently as 10 months ago, even the keenest observers of Spanish-language radio didn’t seem to put much stock in reggaeton’s potential as a full-fledged format. By then, reggaeton had already flexed its muscle, as reflected by the resurgent numbers at Tropical Latin WSKQ New York last spring and the success of bilingual Hip-Hop outlet WVOZ Puerto Rico. But many still saw it as a fringe sound in the continental U.S., and one that meant more lyrically to denizens of San Juan than anybody else.

CIFALC School For The Performing Arts has announced the opening of its doors to the public for the first time since its U.S inauguration back in February 2003.