Radio Cadena Nacional changes
RCN underwent significant restructuring on August 4, driven by the need to overcome historical financial losses of the Ardila Lülle Group. The Basic RCN Radio Network closed, leaving La FM and Alerta Bogotá as the main stations. [Rodrigo Torres Villamil]
“RCN is a large corporation that operates several radio station (program) chains/networks. In the same way that the BBC operates several competing programming chains. The flagship RCN Básica network has been shut down. These are the stations that IDed as RCN + name of city (e.g. RCN Cartagena on 1000 kHz). Those are now relaying programming from the (RCN owned) “La FM” network stations in their particular cities. While the main ID would be “La FM” I would guess that they might also mention RCN sometimes as that is the corporate owner. The primarily sports-oriented Antena Dos network is continuing as is. Its IDs have often mentioned RCN and probably will continue to do so as that is the corporate owner. The other large network operated by the RCN company was La Cariñosa. That has been ended but its frequencies are still on the air under the newly-created “Alerta” network name. My guess is that Alerta stations will sometimes mention RCN in their IDs (as did La Cariñosa stations). The RCN company has a couple more small networks on both MW and FM but those are not likely to be heard in North America.”
[Don Moore, via Mark Connelly, CapeDX] via NRC IDXD into WOR iog (2025-08-24)