Cadena Dial is a Spanish

Spain

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 radio station

Radio station

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 based in Seville

Seville

Seville is the artistic, historic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level...

. The station belongs to the Spanish Media Group PRISA

PRISA

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. It was founded in 1988 and broadcasts exclusively music in Spanish language.

It is the second most listened to radio station in Spain, with an audience of 1,67 million listeners. Furthermore, in 1996 this station delivers the Dial Awards for the most successful artists and groups in Spanish language. Until 2006 these awards were given in Madrid

Madrid

Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...

, but from 2007 the venue of the Dial Awards is the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the capital , second-most populous city of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands and the 21st largest city in Spain, with a population of 222,417 in 2009...

 (Canary Islands

Canary Islands

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). They take place annually in the modern Auditorio de Tenerife

Auditorio de Tenerife

The Auditorio de Tenerife "Adán Martín" , was designed by architect Santiago Calatrava Valls. It is located on the Avenue of the Constitution in the Canarian capital, Santa Cruz de Tenerife , and next to the Atlantic Ocean in the southern part of Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife...

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