Photographs of the team of Radio Capital 710 AM contributed to the CMTK Archive; the first identifies each announcer with his name lettered on it.
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Radio Capital 710 AM
“Oigo Radio Capital…”
The first youth radio station to impress Venezuela, and the school where a good part of the voices that would later narrate the miniteca movement were trained.
1968: the signal that changed the dial
Radio Capital was born around 1968 at 710 on the Caracas AM dial, when the producers Tito Martínez del Box —“Radio Rochela”— and Oswaldo Yepes —“Hit Parade de Venezuela”—, together with the industrialist Radamés Lebrón, bought the station that until then was “La Voz de la Patria,” of Monsignor Jesús María Pellín. What came out of that purchase was something else: the first youth-oriented radio station that managed to impress Venezuela, in the thick of the era of protest, hippies, Vietnam and Los Beatles.
Its jingle —“Oigo Radio Capital”— became a generational symbol, and its shows set the tone: “Gente en Ambiente,” “Especialísimo,” “Dos Generaciones,” “Renny en su radio,” “A Full Chola” and “Rueda libre,” as well as the continuation of classics such as “Radio Rochela” and the “Hit Parade.”
Source consulted on July 31, 2026
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