HJCK
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HJCK El Mundo en Bogotá is a Colombian cultural
HJCK was founded by intellectuals Eduardo Caballero Calderón, Hernando and Alfonso Martínez Rueda, Alfonso Peñaranda, Gonzalo Rueda Caro, Álvaro Castaño Castillo[4] and his wife, Gloria Valencia de Castaño, as the first privately owned cultural radio station in Colombia. They bought Radio Granadina, an AM station in Bogotá (HJCK would move to FM in 1967).[4] Its slogan, "El Mundo en Bogotá", comes after one of its first programmes, which included Gabriel García Márquez as its correspondent in Caracas.[5]
In 2000 HJCK expanded its programming, at the time devoted to classical music and cultural programmes, to include other music genres, such as blues, jazz, bossa nova, son cubano, and classic rock.
The station has compiled a series of recordings with voices of famous Colombian and Latin American writers and intellectuals, known as Colección Literaria HJCK. In 2015, public network Radio Nacional de Colombia broadcast some old HJCK recording in the HJCK en la memoria programme.
Due to financial problems and increasingly low ratings, HJCK had to lease its frequency to Caracol Radio in 2005. Between 2005 and 2016 its frequency and call signs were leased by
In early 2019 HJCK renewed its website, becoming a portal focused in culture, seeking to compete with
References
- ^ a b Forero Oliveros, Javier (29 October 2015). "Caracol TV adquirió 94,9% de Radial Bogotá y podrá crear nueva emisora". La República. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
- ^ "Audiopool - Archiv Tonträger - Eigene Bestände" (in German). Retrieved 2009-07-30.
- ISSN 1133-6595. Retrieved 2011-05-16.
- ^ Semana. 2000-10-09. Retrieved 2009-07-30.
- ^ "En busca de la inmensa mayoría" (in Spanish). El Tiempo. 2004-04-04. Retrieved 2009-07-30.
- ^ Martínez, William (2 February 2019). "Camila Builes: "En la nueva HJCK queremos romper algunas reglas"". El Espectador (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 February 2019.
External links
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