HJCK El Mundo en Bogotá is a Colombian cultural

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, founded 15 September 1950 and based in

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 ...

. HJCK became an online-only station in 2005. HJCK was founded by intellectuals

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, Hernando and Alfonso Martínez Rueda, Alfonso Peñaranda, Gonzalo Rueda Caro, Álvaro Castaño Castillo 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). Its

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, "El Mundo en Bogotá", comes after one of its first programmes, which included Gabriel García Márquez as its correspondent in

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. In 2000 HJCK expanded its programming, at the time devoted to

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and cultural programmes, to include other music genres, such as

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, son cubano, and

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. The station has compiled a series of recordings with voices of famous Colombian and

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n writers and intellectuals, known as ''Colección Literaria HJCK''. In 2015, public network

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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 Los 40 Principales, a

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 ...

network. In late 2015 Caracol TV purchased Radial Bogotá, S. A., the company owning HJCK; it was used to expand the

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network since 2016 (both companies, though having been sister companies until 2001, are no longer related). In early 2019 HJCK renewed its website, becoming a portal focused in culture, seeking to compete with ''

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'' (owned by Publicaciones Semana) and ''

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'' (an independent magazine). HJCK, through Caracol TV, belongs to the Grupo Valorem conglomerate, which owns '' El Espectador''.

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