XERED-AM
| City of license | Tlalnepantla, State of Mexico |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Greater Mexico City |
| Branding | Radio Red AM |
| Frequency | 1110 kHz |
| First air date | December 30, 1930 |
| Format | News and talk |
| Power |
100 kW day 50 kW night[1] |
| Class | B |
| Callsign meaning | Radio RED |
| Owner |
Grupo Radio Centro (Radio Red, S.A. de C.V.) |
| Website | redam.mx |
XERED-AM is a radio station in Tlalnepantla, State of Mexico, serving Mexico City. Located on 1110 kHz, XERED-AM is owned by Grupo Radio Centro and broadcasts news and talk as "Radio Red".
History
The concession history for XERED-AM begins with XEFO, a radio station launched in December 30, 1930[2] on 940 kHz as the radio station of the National Revolutionary Party (later the PRI). The earliest available concession for XEFO dates to July 1, 1932.[3] Despite the ban on political use of radio stations, XEFO radio was used as a method of disseminating party ideology, government accomplishments and as the chief medium of broadcasting news and propaganda during Lázaro Cárdenas's 1934 presidential election.[2] XEFO was also relayed on shortwave XEUZ, which broadcast on 6120 kHz with 5 kW.[4] Not long after Cárdenas was replaced by Miguel Alemán, XEFO was sold in 1941 to Francisco Aguirre Jiménez, who changed the callsign to XEQR-AM and used it to launch what became Grupo Radio Centro—which would end up buying Radio Red in 1994. However, XEQR was launched on a separate concession.
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, 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 the "Monitor" program hosted by José Gutiérrez Vivó. Also in the 1970s, the station launched an FM sister station, XHRED-FM 88.1.
In 1994, 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 XESTN-AM 1540), was sold to Grupo Radio Centro.
For media concentration reasons, Radio Centro sold two stations (1320 AM, which became XENET-AM, and 1560 AM, which became XEINFO-AM) to Infored in 1998, with the stations relaunched in 2000. The two sides had a falling out, which in 2004 resulted in the end of the Monitor newscast on Radio Red after 30 years. Radio Centro responded by increasing XERED's daytime power to 100 kW from 50 and expanding its own news offerings.
Format
Radio Red's format consists of multiple longform newscasts throughout the day, featuring such hosts as Sergio Sarmiento, Jacobo Zabludovsky and Jesús Martín Mendoza. The newscasts are carried on AM and FM, but certain additional spoken programs that feature themes of sports, culture, literature and others are aired only on AM while FM carries adult contemporary and rock music in English.
References
- ↑ Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. . Last modified 2015-04-28. Retrieved 2014-12-22.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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.
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