Manuel Esteban Andres Mazorra, an outstanding radio announcer, journalist, radio producer and head of the news magazine "A Primera Hora" of Radio Progreso station has received the National Radio Award 2012 in recognition to his dedication and love to radio broadcasting, to which he has dedicated more than half a century.

The award is conferred by the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (ICRT) to radio professionals whose have had an outstanding contribution to the development of radio in Cuba.

In 1988 Luis Dumond Vazquez and a co-worker of his thought of calling together some people that worked in different positions in the Cuban municipality of Moa, in the province of Holguin, with the goal of allowing them talk of their experiences at work. Then they were far from thinking that it would be the seed that would grow and would become today's La Voz del Niquel radio station.

Since then on its staffers have been marking the foundation of this radio station every July 24.

CMHW radio station, located in the central province of Villa Clara, held its 79th anniversary on July 15. Its staff, locals and people from outside the province had many reasons to celebrate.

Over eight decades of uninterrupted work, of them more than five as a bearer of struggles, achievements and accomplishments of the Cuban revolution, made this provincial station a bastion of our socialist project.