Eddie `Piolin' Sotelo uses his top Spanish-language show to inspire fans to vote.
"Despiertese!" Wake up! It's 4 a.m., and Spanish-language talk-show host Eddie Sotelo is jump-starting his listeners - janitors pushing brooms in dark office buildings, truckers on the road, fast-food cooks flipping sausages for the breakfast rush.
Most Americans have never heard of the small-framed Sotelo, known as "Piolin," or Tweety Bird. But the loyalty of his listeners, many of them immigrants like himself, has helped propel his syndicated show, "Piolin por la Manana," to the No. 1 morning radio slot, regardless of language, in markets from Los Angeles to Phoenix, Dallas, Las Vegas and Chicago, according to Arbitron. READ FULL STORY
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