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Radio Santa Fe is a
radio station Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based rad ...
in
Bogotá Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish Imperial period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city, capital and largest city ...
,
Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...
, founded 1 April 1938Quiénes somos
Radio Santa Fe by Hernando Bernal Andrade and his wife Luisa Mahe. The station broadcasts news and talk, with some music programmes. Bernal purchased a communications system from a crashed
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, repaired it and with his wife bought a house in Centenario, a neighbourhood in southern Bogotá, where the first broadcasts of Radio Santa Fe started.Feliz cumpleaños a los medios
, '' Revista Cambio'', 18 March 2008
Radio Santa Fe was one of the first commercial radio stations in Colombia. After Bernal's sudden death in 1962, at age 42, Ms. Mahé and their four children have been in charge of the station. In 2013, Radio Santa Fe signed an agreement with
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 Bogotà ...
in order to become part of the short-lived ''Q'Hubo Radio'' networkEste martes nace en Bogotá Q'hubo Radio, 'la radio que sirve'
Colprensa vía '' El Universal'', 7 October 2013
('' Q'Hubo'' is a
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with quasi-nationalwide distribution). It switched back to «La 1070 AM de Radio Santa Fe» in late 2016,Novedades de ESPN..// En Bogotá, terminó la marca Q´hubo Radio
Capsulas.com.co, 6 December 2016
still operated by Caracol Radio. Between 1998 and 2013, Radio Santa Fe owned HJN86, an FM station in
Pasto Pasto, officially San Juan de Pasto (; "Saint John of Pasto"), is the capital of the department of Nariño, in southern Colombia. Pasto was founded in 1537 and named after indigenous people of the area. In the 2018 census, the municipality ...
, at 100,1 MHz. In 2013, with the aforementioned agreement with Caracol Radio, it became an affiliate of Tropicana Estéreo.


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Radio Santa Fe
{{coord missing, Colombia 1938 establishments in Colombia Radio stations in Colombia Mass media in Bogotá