First air date 1960 Owner Radio Popular S.A. | Language(s) Spanish Website www.cope.es | |
Sister stations Cadena 100
Rock FM
Megastar FM Awards Premio Ondas National Radio Award for Best Programme or Best News Coverage of an Event | ||
COPE, an acronym for Cadena de Ondas Populares Españolas ("People's Radiowaves of Spain Network") formerly called Radio Popular, is a Spanish radio station. It is the second most played in Spain generalist radio. Owned by the Spanish Episcopal Conference company "Radio Popular SA", belongs to the "Group COPE" with music stations Cadena 100, Rock FM and Megastar FM, addition to the Spanish generalist TV channel 13TV. The station is associated with the Spanish journal Diario ABC.
Created with the aim of offering religious services, since the 1980s its programming has evolved into the model of conventional general radio, while maintaining programs with religious content, such as El Espejo (The Mirror) of José Luis Restán and La linterna de la Iglesia (The Lantern of the Church) of Faustino Catalina, especially on Sundays in the day when Holy Mass and special dates News Church and Catholic liturgical calendar as Christmas and Easter is issued. Its editorial guideline is the promotion of the views of the hierarchy of the Spanish Catholic Church.