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She additionally plans to promote promoting for the station. The advertisements at first will simply be in-house generated, however Fernandez has approached companies in North Platte and a few space communities to gauge their curiosity.
“We went to Lexington yesterday to go out some flyers and issues (for the station),” she mentioned.
“Lexington is an enormous Hispanic group, and with it being a Spanish station, I believe there, Grand Island, Kearney and (North Platte) are my essential focuses.”
Fernandez’s household is from Michoacan, Mexico, they usually moved to North Platte from California when she was in center faculty.
She mentioned the thought for the station got here from her household’s love of music and entrepreneurial spirit.
Her father is a guitarist, keyboardist and drummer, and there have been household companies together with cleansing, landscaping and eating places.
“I’m sort of taking each the music and the enterprise (backgrounds) and mixing it collectively,” Fernandez mentioned.
She initially thought of a profession within the medical discipline however determined towards it. This weekend will mark her first time as a broadcaster.
“I’m actually nervous about it,” Fernandez admitted, “however we’re hoping for the very best and I really do consider that is going to go nicely. I’ve help system — my household and my husband. It’s wonderful.”
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