La Superestación (initially known as ''Super Stereo 88.9'') is a Colombian

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- rock radio station, broadcasting from

Bogotá Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the larges ...

since 19 March 1982, and owned by

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. In 2005, it became an online-only station, having leased its frequency (88.9 MHz FM) to

RCN Radio RCN Radio (''Radio Cadena Nacional'', "National Radio Network") is one of the main radio networks in Colombia. Founded in 1949 with the integration of ''Radio Pacífico'' (Cali), ''La Voz de Medellín' and ''Emisora Nueva Granada'' (Bogotá). Carl ...

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. Before the inception of ''Super Stereo'', the only rock-pop station in Bogotá was Stereo 95-1 (94.9 MHz, currently news/ adult contemporary station La FM, owned by

), though youth AM stations like Radio 15 and Radio Fantasía existed in the 1970s. Most of the programming of ''La Superestación'' consisted in rock and pop hits in English and Spanish. Its flagship morning programme, ''El zoológico de la mañana'', was inspired on the United States '' Morning Zoo'' format. It started in 1986. Other shows were its countdowns ''Los 20 superéxitos'' (weekly) and ''Los 11 superéxitos'' (daily). ''Super Stereo'' held the broadcasting rights of the ''

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'' (airing in English with the original talk by

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). La Superestación expanded to

Medellín Medellín ( or ), officially the Municipality of Medellín ( es, Municipio de Medellín), is the second-largest city in Colombia, after Bogotá, and the capital of the department of Antioquia. It is located in the Aburrá Valley, a central re ...

(92.9 MHz) and

Cali Santiago de Cali (), or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia, with 2,227,642 residents according to the 2018 census. The city spans with of urban area, making Cali the second ...

(100.5 MHz). The success of La Superestación inspired the creation of competing stations, such as

Caracol Radio Caracol Radio (''Cadena Radial Colombiana'', "Colombian Radio Network") is one of the main radio networks in Colombia. Founded in Medellín in 1948 when ''La Voz de Antioquia'' station acquired the 50% of ''Emisoras Nuevo Mundo'', based in Bogotá ...

Radioacktiva Radioacktiva is a Colombian radio station broadcasting from Bogotá. It is owned by Caracol Radio, part of the Spanish media organization Grupo PRISA. It started broadcasting in 1989 programming both rock and pop music. In 1997 it was reformatted ...

and Los 40 Principales, RTVC's Radionica, or RCN Radio's La Mega. After declining ratings in the 2000s, Cadena Super decided to lease La Superestación's frequencies to Radio Uno, at the time an AM vallenato station owned by RCN Radio, and turning it into an

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station. Its former

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, HJJO, is now assigned to a small AM station in San Marcos,

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. Radio Uno's current callsign is HJHR.

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