XERED-AM
Broadcast area | kHz |
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Branding | Radio Red |
Programming | |
Format | News/Sports, contemporary music in English |
Ownership | |
Owner |
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XHRED-FM, XHFAJ-FM, XEJP-FM, XEQR-FM, XEN-AM, XEQR-AM, XERC-AM, | |
History | |
First air date | December 30, 1930 |
Call sign meaning | XE Radio RED |
Technical information | |
Class | B |
Power | 50 kW day 50 kW night[1] |
Transmitter coordinates | 19°18′54.7″N 99°04′49.4″W / 19.315194°N 99.080389°W |
Links | |
Webcast | Listen live |
Website | player |
XERED-AM is a radio station in
History
The concession history for XERED-AM begins with XEFO, a radio station launched on December 30, 1930
In 1946, a new station on 1110 kHz was established, XERCN-AM, owned by Rafael Cutberto Navarro through concessionaire Radio Central de México, S.A., with the concession history of XEFO. In 1973, it was sold to Clemente Serna Martínez and his Radio Programas de México, who the next year launched a new format for the station, "Radio Red". The callsign was changed to XERED-AM and the station began pioneering longform news and talk programming. Radio Red's flagship newscast was Monitor, which started on September 2, 1974, and whose morning edition was hosted by José Gutiérrez Vivó. Also in the 1970s, the station launched an FM sister station, XHRED-FM 88.1. Monitor grew to have four daily editions (morning, noon, evening and midnight) and became Mexico City's top-rated radio newscast by the late 1980s.
In 1994, RPM/Radiodifusora Red—which, by this point, had grown to include XERED-AM, XHRED-FM, and XHRCA-FM 91.3 in Mexico City, as well as Radio Red repeaters in Guadalajara (XEDKR-AM 700) and Monterrey (XESTN-AM 1540), was sold to Grupo Radio Centro. After the sale, Gutiérrez Vivó created Infored, which remained in charge of producing Monitor and other news programming, while all of XERED's other talk programs and hosts became part of Radio Centro.
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In 2017, citing "changes in AM transmission infrastructure", Grupo Radio Centro reorganized all of its AM radio stations, shutting down several and consolidating their programs. Formato 21's news wheel format moved from XERC-AM 790 to 1110 AM, which continued to carry the La Red de Radio Red newscasts. Most of XERED's non-news programs moved to XHFO-FM.
On January 18, 2019, at 9pm, XERED went off the air due to a transmitter relocation, with their news and talk programming now only being available as an online-only stream (with classical music playing when no talk programs were scheduled). The Formato 21 newswheel format was rebranded as "Radio Centro Noticias" and moved to XERC-FM beginning on February 1, but ultimately disappeared at the end of the year.
On August 8, 2019, the station's talk programming was combined with that of XEQR-AM in a single online stream under the latter's "Radio Centro 1030" banner. The stream was shut down on May 15, 2020.
On September 9, 2021, the Federal Telecommunications Institute authorized GRC to relocate XERED-AM to the transmitter site of XEMP-AM and XEQK-AM, owned by the Instituto Mexicano de la Radio. In June 2022, XERED returned to the air intermittently after a 41-month absence, broadcasting Universal Stereo Online programming as a test signal.[5] On July 4, it formally resumed broadcasting as a full simulcast of XHRED-FM "Universal", although with XHRED's advertising replaced with PSAs and cultural interstitials similar to those previously aired on Radio Red.
On August 7, 2023, the sports and talk programming that until the previous day had aired on XEQR-AM was changed to XERED, changing its name to "Radio Centro Noticias y Deportes", also simulcasting the "La Octava" newscasts with XHRED. During off-hours, the station airs classic rock and alternative rock in English. The station retook the Radio Red name on September 21.
References
- ^ Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Infraestructura de Estaciones de Radio AM. Last modified 2018-05-16. Retrieved 2014-12-22. Technical information from the IFT Coverage Viewer.
- ^ a b Enrique E. Sánchez Ruiz, "Orígenes de la radiodifusión en México". Guadalajara: ITESO, 1984
- ^ "1932 XEFO concession" (PDF). rpc.ift.org.mx. Retrieved 2015-01-28.
- ^ Jerome S. Berg, The Early Shortwave Stations: A Broadcasting History Through 1945. McFarland, 2013: 158.
- ^ Lucas-Bartolo, Nicolás (2022-06-27). "Radio Red AM regresa con música de Universal Stereo tras 41 meses fuera del aire". El Economista. Retrieved 2022-06-29.
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