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{{Infobox radio station | country = CO | name = HJCK | logo = | area = Bogotá | branding = ''HJCK'' | airdate = 15 September 1950<br />21 November 2005 (online only) | last_airdate = 30 July 2025<ref name="hjck-end">{{cite web |last1=Builes |first1=Camila |title=Una despedida, un puente |url=https://hjck.com/libros/una-despedida-un-puente-ex40 |website=HJCK |access-date=31 July 2025 |date=30 July 2025}}</ref> | frequency = Online | format = Culture | owner = Radial Bogotá, S. A.<ref name="larepublica-bluradio">{{cite news|last=Forero Oliveros|first=Javier|title=Caracol TV adquirió 94,9% de Radial Bogotá y podrá crear nueva emisora|trans-title=Caracol TV acquired 94.9% of Radial Bogotá and will be able to create a new station|url=http://www.larepublica.co/caracol-tv-adquiri%C3%B3-949-de-radial-bogot%C3%A1-y-podr%C3%A1-crear-nueva-emisora_316546|accessdate=13 March 2016|language=es|work=La República|location=Bogotá |date=29 October 2015}}</ref> | former_callsigns = | former_frequencies = 89.9 MHz (1967–2005)<br />1160 kHz<ref name="audiopool">{{cite web|url=http://dokufunk.org/documentary_archive/findmittel/?CID=6621&ID=6740#A6740|title=Audiopool - Archiv Tonträger - Eigene Bestände|language=German|accessdate=2009-07-30}}</ref> (1950–1981)<ref name="gil">{{cite journal|last=Gil Bolívar|first=Fabio Alberto|date=1992|location=Barcelona|title=Influencia política y poder económico en los medios de comunicación: las cadenas radiofónicas colombianas|trans-title=Political Influence and Economic Power in the Media: Colombian Radio Networks|journal=Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals|issue=23–24|pages=225–254|issn=1133-6595|language=Spanish|url=https://www.raco.cat/index.php/RevistaCIDOB/article/view/27899|accessdate=2026-04-09}}</ref> | affiliations = Caracol Radio (2005–2016)<br />Caracol TV (2016-) | website = http://hjck.com/ }}

'''HJCK El Mundo en Bogotá''' was a Colombian cultural radio station, founded 15 September 1950 and based in Bogotá. HJCK became an online-only station in 2005. The station ceased broadcasting at midnight local time on 30 July 2025.<ref name="hjck-end" />

HJCK was founded by intellectuals Eduardo Caballero Calderón, Hernando and Alfonso Martínez Rueda, Alfonso Peñaranda, Gonzalo Rueda Caro, Álvaro Castaño Castillo<ref name="semana-viento">{{cite web|url=http://www.semana.com/noticias-cultura/contra-viento-marea/14978.aspx|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130201234348/http://www.semana.com/noticias-cultura/contra-viento-marea/14978.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 1, 2013|title=Contra viento y marea|date=2000-10-09|publisher=Semana|language=Spanish|accessdate=2009-07-30}}</ref> 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).<ref name="semana-viento" /> Its slogan, "El Mundo en Bogotá", comes after one of its first programmes, which included Gabriel García Márquez as its correspondent in Caracas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-1576689|title=En busca de la inmensa mayoría|date=2004-04-04|publisher=El Tiempo|language=Spanish|accessdate=2009-07-30}}</ref>

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 Los 40 Principales, a Caracol Radio network. In late 2015 Caracol TV purchased Radial Bogotá, S. A., the company owning HJCK;<ref name="larepublica-bluradio" /> it was used to expand the Bluradio 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 ''Arcadia'' (owned by Publicaciones Semana) and ''El Malpensante'' (an independent magazine).<ref name="hjck2019">{{cite news |last1=Martínez |first1=William |title=Camila Builes: "En la nueva HJCK queremos romper algunas reglas" |url=https://www.elespectador.com/entretenimiento/medios/camila-builes-en-la-nueva-hjck-queremos-romper-algunas-reglas-articulo-837494 |accessdate=17 February 2019 |work=El Espectador |date=2 February 2019 |language=Spanish}}</ref> HJCK, through Caracol TV, belongs to the Grupo Valorem conglomerate, which owns ''El Espectador''.

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==External links== *{{official website}}

Category:PRISA Category:Radio stations established in 1950 Category:Radio stations disestablished in 2005  Category:Radio stations disestablished in 2025 Category:Radio stations in Colombia Category:Mass media in Bogotá Category:Classical music radio stations