The editors, webmaster and technical staff, columnists, writers and contributors of the MabuhayRadio.com welcome Christina Luna as the Entertainment-Section editor of this web site. She is young (in her mid-20s) and based in the Bay Area (Northern California). This editor first met Ms. Luna during the Fiesta Filipina in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, in October 2003. She supervised at that time part of the production-and-facilities’ crews of the festival. Then we met her also in the Asian Festival at the then Stardust Hotel in September 2004 and then again at the Fiesta Filipina in October 2004 – doing the chores of an event manager. Eventually Ms. Christina appeared twice as guest in our “Mabuhay, Las Vegas” talk show over KRLV-AM station in 2004 and 2005.

We invited also Ms. Luna to join us in our visit to the Ayala Foundation USA office in Redwood City, CA, in July 2004. She was likewise with this editor in February 2007 when we met with San Francisco-based journalist Pep Red Vasquez and Filipino Guardian publisher Jorge Nervez at a luncheon hosted by Nestor Duldulao of the Goldilock’s in Daly City. Incidentally, we may be finalizing soon a deal with Messrs. Vasquez and Nervez about a Filipino Guardian online edition appearing in the MabuhayRadio.com as a section.

Ms. Christina has impressive credentials. Consider that she is an artist-and-event manager in the Asian-American music market. Her experience includes event management, artist management, and artist publicity and marketing. Christina’s goals include creating an awareness of the Asian-American music industry either through events such as the Asian-American Music Conference, the Asian Icon singing competition, or through preparing Asian-American artists to be at the forefront of an emerging new market.

Ms. Luna represents the young talents in the Filipino-American entertainment industry whom we want to recruit to join our Dream Team that will manage many events. Some of these happenings are the Filipino-American Community Night at the Dodgers Stadium, which is now on its third year. (We hope to do more events eventually in other Major-League ballparks.) We need more Christina Lunas for the Sinulog Festival-Los Angeles’ 14-year development plan.

As we keep on telling you, Dear Readers, our budding media cooperative is on a set agenda and time-table. We are on time and on target. In fact, we were pleasantly surprised that we accomplished in less than nine-months THE goal of our web site becoming the Number-One online publication of all the sites published by Filipino-American newspapers, magazines and media companies. We thought initially that it would take us at least two years to overtake the web sites of prestigious weekly newspapers such as the Asian Journal, Weekend Balita, Philippine News, Filipino Express and Filipino Reporter and other publications like the Filipinas Magazine, which are all decades-ahead in track record. But the Filipino online world liked our articles that are being posted on a daily basis. Our webmaster and his team also put tags in our articles to establish links with search engines, again almost on a daily basis.

So, to maintain our lead and preserve our dominant status, we are now tapping more Dream-Team members like Ms. Christina Luna. Hopefully, your patronage and support will continue, if not double or triple in the coming months, Dear Readers. As we say in Sorsogon, “Salamatonon” (Thank you very much). We need perhaps more-than triple the number of readers, viewers and clickers if we are to reach the next target of having an Alexa.com world-wide rating of 99,999 or lower by April 9, 2009, or sooner.

Welcome again, Ms. Christina Luna, to the MabuhayRadio.com Dream Team. # # #

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