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In
1994, Radio Express and TM Century decided to add a Spanish pop
series to the HitDisc™ series. TM and Radio Express co-produced
this weekly CD of the best "breakers" in Latin pop
music. The first edition, #50, came out in June of 1994. A
few years later, Radio Express took the Exitos Express project in
house and it is now in its 16th year with nearly 900 weekly editions
published since April of '94. |
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A sample of a weekly
Radio Express webpage for the Exitos Express music service. |
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Here is an early
HitDisk© from TM and Radio Express. |
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Typical Exitos Express content is displayed on this J Card from
2001. Every
week Exitos Express brings 15 to 20 of the greatest new
releases from all of the Spanish speaking countries of
the world. An extensive network of correspondents and
affiliated radio stations provides many songs that
have not yet gone on sale anywhere in the world!
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Here is part of a promotional
mailing for Exitos Express from the 90's. |

The Radio Express catalog
of programming services
had this description of
Exitos Express in 1995. |
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Another view of Exitos Express from the Radio Express catalog.
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At the Radio Express booth at
NAB in 1994. |
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A fascinating part of
the ongoing involvement with Radio Express has been working with Tom
Rounds, who is not just the head of this company. "TR" was one of
the Poi Boys at legendary KPOI in Honolulu. He was the first Program
Director of KFRC in San Francisco when it became a Top 40 station in
the Drake era. And with another Drake PD, Ron Jacobs, he created the
model for barter syndication with American Top 40 with Casey Kassem.
Click on the article above to read a larger PDF file of this R&R
feature written by Erica Farber. |
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RadioPlay and the Radio Express
logos. |
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Several years later, Radio Express, Inc. decided to
introduce its own series of weekly new music disks,
ranching from A/C and CHR to Dance and Urban. Exitos
Express became the sole property of Radio Express.
(Click on the logo to go to the Radio Express web) |
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The content in the RadioPlay series continued to be the same... the
breaking songs from all over the Spanish speaking world. Here is the
changed look of the logo and the CDs. |
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In 1999, a new
RadioPlay© service was added to cover salsa,
merengue and other tropical Latin rhythms. Like
Exitos express, a new edition is produced every
week. |
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The content can be seen on this
Tropical Express J-Card. |
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Click here to go to the Radio
Express website. |
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