“FM 100.3, La Colifata’s historic frequency, will be occupied by another well-known station,” warned those responsible for Radio La Colifata.
“Without having been officially informed, they occupy the FM 100.3 frequency and leave us without air,” stated those who for more than 33 years have made La Colifata, the first radio station in the world to transmit from a neuropsychiatric hospital.
“Paradoxically, they assure that ‘100.3 FM has neither programming nor air in the AMBA’, as if we did not exist, but they affirm that the move will be with ‘air cleaning’,” they add from the Borda Hospital radio.
ENACOM denied that this was going to happen. “There is and will not be any resolution that attacks La Colifata. If there is a request, that frequency has already been assigned to La Colifata,” they told Telefe Noticias from the communications regulatory body in the country.
“Our radio is a mental health project that managed to forge an important place within our national culture. Being, in turn, an inspiration and model for health projects around the world,” La Colifata spokespeople highlighted.
In 2019, through Resolution 3705, they were assigned the definitive license to transmit on the FM 100.3 frequency.
“We have shown that radio – and the media in general – can be useful tools for creating health, helping thousands of people in their process of subjective improvement, and the community to retrace prejudices and develop health actions” , they added.
“We exist because there was always someone else who made a place for us. We appeal to the entire community so that the voices of the colifatos can continue to be heard with increasing force in the ether,” they called.
