By Amauris Betancourt Gomez 2009 / amauris@radioangulo.icrt.cu
I remember my grandfather at the house door with his amputated leg sitting on a taburete (kind of a stool), the radio on another similar piece of furniture; and he, focused on the “De Primera Mano” (First Hand) (DPM), a news program with its group of journalists and correspondents from all municipalities of the Cuban eastern province of Holguín. Few dared to bother him, but his grandsons unconscious of his attention on the news radio program whose broadcast have always started at 5.00 P.M. by the CMKO Radio Angulo station.
Felix Hernández in the center, founder; and Osvaldo and Enma radio announcers for the news boom section.
The DPM headquarters staff.
I never imagine one day I could take a picture of those radio voices. Today they are my colleagues. And I can clearly claim they portray Holguín and its people in their journalism work. They are the people’s voice along with the ¡Ahora! provincial weekly paper and the municipal New Holguín radio station, founded some more than 10 years ago.
For twenty years now DPM makes due recognition to its name – no go-between, but its own first hand sources; the best news; that one nobody knows; the last minute or non disclosed news yet. Moises Anazco, today Havana’s Radio Progreso station journalist, said a sentence from which Felix Hernandez Rodriguez, the DPM lead voice, chose the name for the prime time newscast, among the most popular program broadcast by CMKO competing with many musical and vaudeville programs.
DPM has won several national and provincial prizes in recognition to the respect by Holguín radio goers and from other neighboring provinces.
Some of the DPM makers said to the ¡Ahora! Weekly that: "… the space gives the chance to voice viewpoint and the critical analysis" (journalist Arnaldo Vargas Castro), that "it came to revolutionize the radio…" (journalist Magda Betancourt); “it is a challenge to professional work as it favors dialog with all municipalities in Holguín province (Maribel Obregon); “all the professionals from the radio stations do their work interactively, either from the radio studios or radio stations in all the municipalities" (Rigoberto Gonzalez Liminana – founder and the program director); while Rene Martinez focused on the sound track - coherent, interactive and unique, which he designed together with Raimundo Peña.
So that DPM is a family member for journalist Lydia Esther Ochoa; a great upgrading source for Luis Ernesto Urbino, sound designer; ours as well as the people’s, journalist Elvia Mulet says; a spectacular spike at the saying of Ernesto Rondon, its main sport commentator, of course without forgetting many of its founders as Nicolas de la Pena.
DPM was founded on March 31, 1989. Its founders along with the new generation of journalists and correspondents join to celebrate the date, first in the ExpoHolguin fair and exhibition ground and later in a special live broadcast of the program at the La Marqueta square.
Working session.
A Workshop on the radio program to make rank at the heightest for goers was held in ExpoHolguin, its contributions, its ups and downs anecdotes were dealt by the DPM doers.
Raul Castro Ruz, President of the Council of State and the Council of Minister of the Cuban Republic and First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) stated, in the Central Report to the 6th Congress of the Cuban Communist Party: 
