XHRED-FM

XHRED-FM
City of license	Mexico City
Broadcast area	Greater Mexico City
Branding	Red FM
Frequency	88.1 MHz (also on HD Radio)
First air date	1976
Format	News and talk; contemporary music in English
ERP	95.128 kW^[1]
Callsign meaning	Radio RED
Former callsigns	XHVIP-FM (1980s-93?)
Owner	Grupo Radio Centro (Radio Red FM, S.A. de C.V.)
Website	redfm.mx

XHRED-FM is a radio station in Mexico City. Located on 88.1 MHz, XHRED-FM is owned by Grupo Radio Centro and broadcasts news and talk, along with music in English as "Red FM".

XHRED-FM broadcasts in HD.^[2]

History

Radio Central de México, S.A., the concessionaire of XERED-AM, received a concession to operate a FM radio station in Mexico City in 1972. XHRED-FM launched in 1976, picking up a format previously heard on 1560 AM: "Radio VIP", programming and music in English. In the 1980s, the Spanish-language Monitor newscast with José Gutiérrez Vivo was added; this newscast was carried with XERED-AM.

In 1995, 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. At this time 88.1 finally adopted the "Radio Red FM" name.

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 XHRED-FM's effective radiated power to 95 kW and expanding its own news offerings.

Since April 2013, the station dropped the "Radio" from its name.

Format

Red FM's format consists of multiple longform newscasts throughout the day, featuring such hosts as Sergio Sarmiento, Jacobo Zabludovsky (until his death) and Jesús Martín Mendoza. The newscasts are carried on AM and FM, but a sports program, a nightly program called "Red Empresarial", a Saturday program about cars called "Autoexplora Radio" and blocks of contemporary music in English from the 1980s to the present, hosted by Isabel Angulo, are exclusive to FM. Every year since 2013, the station's musical blocks turn into an all-Christmas music format from late November until Christmas Day (for the 2015 Christmas season, it even launched an online spin-off of 24/7 all-Christmas music). Red FM also airs Sunday night games during the NFL season.

References

↑ Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Infraestructura de Estaciones de Radio FM. Last modified 2015-08-14. Retrieved 2014-12-28.
↑ http://hdradio.com/mexico/estaciones HD Radio Guide for Mexico

Radio stations in Mexico City

By AM frequency	XEWF 540 XEOC 560 XEPH 590 XENK 620 XEDTL 660 XEN 690 XEMP 710 XEX 730 XEABC 760 XERC 790 XEITE 830 XEUN 860 XEW 900 XEQ 940 XERFR 970 XEOY 1000 XEQR 1030 XEEP 1060 XETUL 1080 XERED 1110 XEJP 1150 XEFR 1180 XEB 1220 XEL 1260 XEDA 1290 XENET 1320 XEQK 1350 XECO 1380 XEBS 1410 XEEST 1440 XEAI 1470 XEDF 1500 XEUR 1530 XEINFO 1560 XEVOZ 1590 XEUACH 1610 XEARZ 1650 XEANAH 1670

By SW frequency	XERTA 4800 XEOI 6010 XEPPM 6185 XEYU 9600

By FM frequency	XHRED 88.1 XHM 88.9 XEOYE 89.7 XEDA 90.5 XHUIA 90.9 XHFAJ 91.3 XHFO 92.1 XEQ 92.9 XEJP 93.7 UAM Radio 94.1 XHIMER 94.5 XHSH 95.3 XHUPC 95.7 XEUN 96.1 XEW 96.9 XERC 97.7 XHDL 98.5 XHPOP 99.3 XHMM 100.1 XHSON 100.9 XEX 101.7 XHMVS 102.5 XERFR 103.3 XEDF 104.1 XHEXA 104.9 XHOF 105.7 XHDFM 106.5 XEQR 107.3 XHIMR 107.9

HD Radio	88.1-1 88.1-2 90.5-1 90.5-2 90.5-3 90.9-1 91.3-1 91.3-2 93.7-1 93.7-2 94.5-1 94.5-2 94.5-3 97.7-1 97.7-2 103.3-1 103.3-2 103.3-3 103.3-4 104.1-1 104.1-2 104.1-3 104.1-4 105.7-1 105.7-2 105.7-3 107.3-1 107.3-2 107.9-1 107.9-2 107.9-3

Dark stations/frequencies	XERMX 5985/9705/11770/15430/17765 (Radio México Internacional; now Internet-only) XHFM 94.1

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