History of Radio (Colombia)

1865

Feb 28, 1865

Jakes Clerck: Dynamic Theory of the Electromagnetic Field

1888

Feb 28, 1888

German, Heinrich Rudolf Hertz. Propagation without cables between two points, this was called Radioelectric spectrum

1895

Feb 28, 1895

Italian, Gugliermo Marconi started used the Radioelectric Spectrum. 1700 meters’ distance between the transmitting and receiving source

1901

Feb 28, 1901

First broadcast - transatlan radio reception
Message between England and newfoundland (3.300 kilometers)

1909

Feb 28, 1909

First radio experience in North American territory

1920

Feb 28, 1920

The KDKA station offers daily news service and in November of that year for the first time reports on the results of the electoral process in the United States in real time

1920

Feb 28, 1920

Physical appearance of the radio

1921

Feb 28, 1921

Radio Castilla, from Spain broadcasts live concerts from the Teatro Real in Madrid

1923

Feb 28, 1923

The English company Marconi Wireless Co. brought to Colombia the necessary infrastructure to improve communications and bring the radio to the country

1929

Aug 7, 1929

Broadcasting boom in Colombia. President Miguel Abadía Mendez, inaugurated the country's first broadcast radio (HJN) that after becoming the National Broadcasting Radio

1930

Feb 28, 1930

Physical appearance of the radio

1931

Feb 28, 1931

The first commercial broadcasters were born in Colombia

1934

Feb 28, 1934

During the government of Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo the radio could only have educational purposes
(Radio novels)

1936

Feb 28, 1936

Was implemented in Colombia radial models of United States and because of the death of Carlos Gardel the radio journalism genre was inaugurated.

1940

Feb 28, 1940

Physical appearance of the radio

1945

Feb 28, 1945

They appear the first cultural broadcasting station (HJCK) and the radial chains RCN, Caracol and Todelar

1948

Feb 28, 1948

Assassinated political leader Jorge Eliecer Gaitán, which led the broadcasters to issue and report the chaos and war that was being experienced in the country

1950

Feb 27, 1950

Radio Sutatenza appears, a station directed to the peasant public of all the country

1950

Feb 28, 1950

Physical appearance of the radio

1957

Feb 28, 1957

TV arrives in the country

1960

Feb 28, 1960

Radio Sutatenza appears, a station directed to the peasant public of all the country

1963

Feb 28, 1963

The National Institute of Radio and Television was founded

1970

Feb 28, 1970

Physical appearance of the radio

1980

Feb 28, 1980

Physical appearance of the radio

1981

Feb 28, 1981

The rise of many radial genres

1990

Feb 28, 1990

Physical appearance of the radio

1993

Feb 28, 1993

Popularization of FM radio

1997

Feb 28, 1997

Radio on the internet

2000

Feb 28, 2000

Physical appearance of the radio

2000

Feb 28, 2000

New technologies, internet and music