BLURADIO

Blu Radio is a spoken radio station that manages different content emphasizing news and opinion programs. Although it is a relatively new media, since its emergence (2012) Blu has occupied important places in the rankings of radio audience in the country. According to the General Media Survey it has a 6.16 % of audience in Colombia

This station belongs to Caracol Televisión S.A, and means the returning of Grupo Santo Domingo to the radio, after having sold Caracol Radio to Grupo Prisa in 2003. Blu has its headquarters in Bogotá, and it is simultaneously broadcast in Barranquilla, Bogotá, Bucaramanga, Cali, Cartagena, Eje Cafetero, Medellín, Neiva, Tunja, Villavicencio and Montería. The owners of Blu Radio are also owners of Canal Caracol, El Espectador newspaper and Cromos magazine.

In September 2012, the first broadcast of Blu Radio in Bogotá in 96.9 Fm (leased to Melodía Estéreo) was on air.

Key facts

Audience Share

6.2%

Ownership Type

Private

Geographic Coverage

regional

Content Type

Free Content

Active Transparency

company/channel informs proactively and comprehensively about its ownership, data is constantly updated and easily verifiable

4 ♥

Media Companies / Groups

VALOREM S.A.

Ownership

Ownership Structure

Valorem S.A., whose owner is the Santo Domingo Family, controls 93.5 % . The rest belongs to the company Inversiones Valmiera S.A.S. y Cía. , which is controlled by Felipe Lopez Caballero, founder of Revista Semana.

Voting Rights

No Data

Group / Individual Owner

It is the holding company through which the Santo Domingo Family controls different companies in the sector: – Real estate and tourism, – Logistics and Transport, – Media and Entertainment, – Industry and Retail. It belongs to Invernac&Cía SAS(57.2174141%), EIH S de RL (17.8146888%), Caribbean Equity Investment Corp. (9.1623339% and to Colinsa S de RL (8.6687092%).

93.5%

Inversiones Valmiera S.A.S y Cía S.C.A

This company is controlled by Inversiones Valmiera S.A.s, whose general manager and legal representative is Felipe López Caballero, owner of 58.14% shares of the company. Kunde Ventures Limited has 35.2%, María López Castaño 6.6% and Valmiera Enterprises Corp 0.00005%. The company is linked to Sociedad de Administración de Inmuebles e Inversores SAS, the main shareholding company (89.51%) and controls Publicaciones Semana.

6.5%

Olga Lucía Toro / Daniel Saab / German Duarte / Jaime Lepeley

Each partner owns 0.000000114 shares.

Media Companies / Groups

VALOREM S.A.

Facts

General Information

Founding Year

2012

Ceo

Gonzalo Antonio Córdoba Mallarino | President of Caracol TV S.A.. He replaced to Carlos Alejandro Pérez Dávila in 2012. He has been Director of Television Cadena 3, Manager of Compañía de Informaciones Audiovisuales production company; vice president of

Editor-In-Chief

Ricardo Ospina | He began his professional career in the Cadena Todelar, being assistant to Antonio Ibáñez. He arrived at Caracol Radio with the support of the then Director of the Informative Service Yolanda Ruiz and the Chief editor of the W radio Slobo

Other Important People

Rosa Emilia Fonseca Gómez

Alternate legal representative - She has been linked to companies of Grupo Santo Domingo since 1987. Since 1994, she has been linked to Caracol Televisión S.A as Financial, Corporate and Commercial Vice President. In February 2011, she was designated Executive Vice President of the channel.

Alberto Lleras Puga

Senior member of the board of directors and son of the former president Alberto Lleras Camargo.