Radioacktiva is a Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

n radio station

Radio station

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 broadcasting from Bogotá

Bogotá

Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...

. It is owned by Caracol Radio

Caracol Radio

Caracol Radio 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....

, part of the Spanish media organization Grupo PRISA. It started broadcasting in 1989 programming both rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 and pop music

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

. In 1997 it was reformatted to focus on rock music. In 2001 it would switch frequencies with sister station Tropicana Estéreo.

El gallo

It is the station's flagship programme, broadcast on weekdays from 06:00 to 10:00. As it is usual in the morning zoo

Morning zoo

Morning zoo is a format of morning radio show common to English-language radio broadcasting. The name is derived from the "wackiness and zaniness" of the activities, bits, and overall personality of the show and its hosts...

genre, El gallo relies on the integration with the audience by offering prizes (concerts tickets, CDs, T-Shirts) in funny contests and quizzes.

R8ck / R20ck

R8ck ("Rock 8") is the daily countdown of the station, broadcast on weekday evenings. The weekly countdown is R20ck ("Rock 20"), on Saturdays between 12:00 and 14:00. Before the Planeta rock era, the weekly countdown was the Top 40.

El duelo

The programme features two artists' songs so as to present them to voting. Fans can vote either by phone or internet. It is broadcast jointly with R8ck.

External links

• Official site