Radio Red SA de CV, concessionaire of the XERED-AM 1110 KHz frequency with authorized coverage over Mexico City and up to the limits of the states of Puebla, Hidalgo, Morelos and Michoacán, obtained authorization to place its transmitting antenna in a location where the transmitters of the stations XEDTL 660 AM and XEQK 1350 AM of the Mexican Institute of Radio (Imer) are also located.
The authorization became effective in the week of September 15, 2021, but it was only made public and since then the concessionaire has 180 business days, plus a single extension of the same term, to carry out the necessary work that will allow it to return to the air at Radio Red AM, after three years of being turned off by its owner, Grupo Radio Centro. If this company completes both terms, Red AM would return to the air in the capital until 2023.
Radio Red 1110 AM now has the opportunity to return to the microphone from a location in the El Vergel neighborhood of the Iztapalapa mayor’s office and with a power of 50,000 watts, enough to broadcast to the capitals of Toluca, Pachuca, Cuernavaca, Puebla and Tlaxcala in a good morning, how about your spectrum concession title.
The station went off the air between January 18 and 19, 2019, from its former location in the Mexican municipality of Tlalnepantla.
After an analysis, the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) validated that Radio Red hired Imer infrastructure to place its transmitting antenna there.
In addition to Radio Red, the IFT had previously approved that Radio Centro rent space in the XEB-AM towers, also in Imer, to put the XERC-AM 1030 KHz transmitter there, which at one time was the first station which was granted in favor of Grupo Radio Centro.
Grupo Radio Centro, controller of the frequency and of the Radio Red AM 1110 concept, disconnected that station on the night of January 19, 2019. The action was due to a technical relocation of the station’s transmitting antenna, according to what Then the announcer Jesús Martín Mendoza, head of one of the affected newscasts on Radio Red AM and FM, told the air.
Mendoza informed his audience that night that Radio Red AM would return to the air in a period of “three to four months”, while the technical work for the antenna was completed, which for the first time in 60 years turned off its signal. Therefore, it would be until May 2019 that the 1110 KHz frequency would return to the air, but the opposite happened and that announcer migrated after the radio company.
Radio Red AM went off the air three months after Grupo Radio Centro achieved the full registration of the renewal of its concession to commercially exploit that frequency, after a payment of 8.13 million pesos and another 26 million pesos for the sister station. Red FM Radio.
The firm INRA, with data from mid-2018 and prior to the station’s disconnection, reported in 2019 that Radio Red AM was then the 36th most listened to station of the 69 originating or with reach in Mexico City and its conurbation area, with 0.65 points overall 24 hours a day and in combination with the concept of Format
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx