{{short description|Radio station in Mexico City}} {{Infobox radio station | country = MX | above = | name = XERED-AM | logo = | city = [[Mexico City]] | area = [[Greater Mexico City]] | branding = Radio Red | frequency = 1110 [[kilohertz|kHz]]<br /> | airdate = December 30, 1930 | format = [[talk radio|News/Talk]]/[[sports radio|Sports]] with contemporary music in English | power = 50 kW{{mexico-inf|AM|access-date=2014-12-22}} | class = B | coordinates = {{coord|19|18|54.7|N|99|04|49.4|W}} | callsign_meaning = XE Radio '''RED''' | licensing_authority = [[Telecommunications Regulatory Commission|CRT]] | sister_stations = [[XHRED-FM]], [[XHFAJ-FM]], [[XEJP-FM]], [[XEQR-FM]], [[XEN-AM]], [[XEQR-AM]], [[XERC-AM]], | owner = [[Grupo Radio Centro]] | licensee = Radio Red, S.A. de C.V. | webcast = {{listenlive|https://playerservices.streamtheworld.com/api/livestream-redirect/XERED_AM_SC}} | website = {{URL|1=https://player.listenlive.co/51861/es}} }}

'''XERED-AM''' (1110 [[Hertz|kHz]]) is a [[commercial radio|commercial]] [[radio station]] in [[Mexico City]]. It is owned by [[Grupo Radio Centro]] and it airs a [[talk radio]] [[radio format|format]] including news and sports, known as '''Radio Red'''. Late nights and weekends, it plays [[contemporary hit radio|contemporary hits]] in English.

XERED-AM is powered at 50,000 [[watt]]s. [[AM 1110]] is a United States [[clear-channel station|clear-channel frequency]] reserved for [[list of broadcast station classes#AM|Class A]] stations [[KFAB]] [[Omaha]] and [[WBT (AM)|WBT]] [[Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte]]. But XERED is far enough away to avoid causing interference to those stations. Its [[transmitter]] is off Avenida Canal de Garay, south of downtown Mexico City.<REF>[https://fccdata.org/?call=xered&ccode=6&country=MX&lang=en&city= FCCdata.org/XERED-AM]</REF>

==History== ===XEFO and XERCN=== The concession history for XERED-AM begins with '''XEFO''', a radio station launched on December 30, 1930.<ref name="eesr">Enrique E. Sánchez Ruiz, "Orígenes de la radiodifusión en México". Guadalajara: ITESO, 1984</ref> It originally broadcast on 940&nbsp;kHz as the radio station of the National Revolutionary Party (later the [[Partido Revolucionario Institucional|PRI]]). The earliest available concession for XEFO dates to July 1, 1932.<ref name="ift">{{cite web|url=https://rpc.ift.org.mx/vrpc/pdfs/090252648002c889.pdf |title=1932 XEFO concession |publisher=rpc.ift.org.mx|access-date=2015-01-28}}</ref> 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.<ref name="eesr"/> XEFO was also relayed on shortwave '''XEUZ''', which broadcast on 6120&nbsp;kHz with 5&nbsp;kW.<ref>Jerome S. Berg, ''The Early Shortwave Stations: A Broadcasting History Through 1945''. McFarland, 2013: 158.</ref> Not long after Cárdenas was replaced by [[Miguel Alemán Valdés|Miguel Alemán]], XEFO was sold in 1941 to Francisco Aguirre Jiménez, who changed the [[call sign]] to [[XEQR-AM]] and used it to launch what became [[Grupo Radio Centro]]. That company would end up buying Radio Red in 1994. However, XEQR was launched on a separate concession.

In 1946, a new station on 1110&nbsp;kHz was established. '''XERCN-AM''' was owned by Rafael Cutberto Navarro through concessionaire Radio Central de México, S.A., with the concession history of XEFO.

===XERED=== In 1973, the station was sold to Clemente Serna Martínez and his [[Radio Programas de México]]. That company launched a new format for the station the next year. It was "Radio Red". The call sign 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]] at 88.1 [[Hertz|MHz]]. The company later acquired [[XHFAJ-FM|XHRCA-FM]] at 91.3 MHz.

''Monitor'' grew to have four daily editions, morning, noon, evening and midnight. It became Mexico City's top-rated radio newscast by the late 1980s.

RPM/Radiodifusora Red had Radio Red repeaters in [[Guadalajara]], [[XEDKR-AM]] 700, and [[Monterrey, Mexico|Monterrey]], [[XESTN-AM]] 1540. In 1994, it 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.

[[File:XB-FWK.jpg|left|200px|The Radio Red traffic helicopter on display at the 57th National Radio and Television Week in Mexico City in 2015|thumb]] 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. After a legal conflict between the two sides that culminated in a lawsuit won by Infored, in 2004 the ''Monitor'' newscasts were removed from Radio Red after almost 30 years on air. )They continued on 1320 and 1560 AM until 2008.) Radio Centro responded by increasing XERED's daytime power to 100&nbsp;kW from 50 kw and replacing ''Monitor'' with its own news offerings.

===Reorganization=== 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. The news and talk programming was only being available as an online-only stream. It played [[classical music]] 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.

===New transmitter site=== 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.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lucas-Bartolo |first=Nicolás |date=2022-06-27 |title=Radio Red AM regresa con música de Universal Stereo tras 41 meses fuera del aire |work=El Economista |url=https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/empresas/Radio-Red-AM-regresa-con-musica-de-Universal-Stereo-tras-41-meses-fuera-del-aire-20220627-0043.html |access-date=2022-06-29}}</ref> 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== {{reflist}}

==External links== *{{FCC-LMS-Facility|102374|XERED}}

{{Mexico City Radio}}

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