Todelar

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Todelar is a system of radio stations that covers all of Colombia, founded in 1953 by Bernardo Tobón de la Roche. [1] Its flagship station is La Voz de Bogotá since 2017. [2] Radio Continental, also in Bogotá, had this role until 2016, having joined Todelar [3] (an acronym of the last names of its founder) in 1957.

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As of 2015, the flagship morning news programme, Artunduaga por la mañana, was directed by journalist Édgar Artunduaga. The programme was cancelled December 2016, [2] a few weeks before Radio Continental was sold [4] to Cadena Radial Vida, a network owned by an evangelical group whose leader is Eduardo Cañas. [5]

History

Bernardo Tobón de la Roche was the manager of Radio Pacífico, [6] a station in Cali affiliated to RCN Radio, [1] and had founded La Voz de Pereira in the 1940s. After a congress of radio stations in 1956, Tobón de la Roche was able to secure affiliations for his network from stations of Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, Barranquilla, and Cartagena de Indias. [6] By 1962 Todelar had 24 stations (11 owned-and-operated, 13 affiliates). In 1967 Unión Radio, a group of radio stations of Cali (Radio Uno, Radio el Sol), Pereira (La Voz Amiga, La Voz de Pereira), and Bogotá (La Voz de Bogotá, Emisora Monserrate), joined the network. [6] De la Roche's brothers Jaime and Jairo, who also were part of the network, would leave and became executives of rival networks Caracol Radio and RCN Radio, respectively. [6]

Todelar had its golden era in the 1960s and 1970s, broadcasting live sports events such as the Vuelta a Colombia, and the 1966 FIFA World Cup, [6] or radioplays like La ley contra el hampa, a crime drama, or the Colombian version of the Mexican hit Kalimán .; [7] some of these dramas were broadcast from Cali [8] and lasted into the mid 1990s.

Todelar would later expand to FM. In 1977, Todelar had 344 stations. [3]

After these years, Todelar has seen itself in disadvantage vis-à-vis rival networks RCN Radio and Caracol Radio, being in a slow decline since the 1990s; since Todelar is essentially a media company it has found difficult to compete in equal terms with those networks, owned by huge corporate conglomerates (Organización Ardila Lülle and PRISA, respectively). Some stations have left the network [9] (including main flagship Radio Continental in 2017) [2] [4] and some timeslots, specially in the AM stations, are filled with paid programmes by shamans, naturist medicine laboratories and esoteric or religious groups since the late 1980s. [6]

Main networks

La Voz de Bogotá
Broadcast area Bogotá
Frequency 930kHz
BrandingHJCS
Programming
Format News / talk
AffiliationsTodelar
Ownership
OwnerTodelar
History
First air date
1953
Former call signs
HJCE
Former frequencies
890kHz (1940-mid 1990s)
Links
Website http://www.todelar.com/

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