XHAV-FM is a radio station on 100.3 MHz in Guadalajara. The station is owned by

El Heraldo de México ''El Heraldo de México'' is a Mexican national daily newspaper published in Mexico City. Initially founded in 1965, after a 14-year absence of the name, the newspaper was relaunched on May 2, 2017. History Original ''El Heraldo de México'' ...

newspaper as Heraldo Radio, a news/talk station.

History

XEAV-FM 100.3 received its concession on November 25, 1963, but it had been operating since at least February 1958, making it the first FM radio station in Jalisco. It was an FM simulcast of

XEAV-AM XEAV-AM is a radio station serving the Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico area. Branded as Canal 58, the station broadcasts on 580 __NOTOC__ Year 580 (Roman numerals, DLXXX) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar ...

580 "Radio Guadalajara". Between 1970 and 1976, XEAV-FM became XHAV-FM, a separately programmed station. The 1980s saw the station turn its focus to a younger audience with rock music; known as "Super Stereo", the station was considered a launching pad for radio personalities in Guadalajara. In 2004, XHAV was sold by Núcleo Radio Guadalajara to Grupo Imagen, and two years later, Super Stereo, which had seen its ratings wane over time, was relaunched as a new radio format from Imagen, known as RMX. RMX was designed to appeal to a young audience (18-30). Meanwhile, it proved enough of a success in Guadalajara that Imagen expanded the format to other cities: Querétaro, Celaya, Nuevo Laredo and Cancún all received RMX stations between 2007 and 2011. The national RMX system was unusually decentralized, and each RMX station originated programming for the network. In 2017, RMX went full-time on

XHDL-FM XHDL-FM is a radio station on 98.5 FM in Mexico City. XHDL is owned by ''El Heraldo de México'' and operates as a news/talk station known as El Heraldo Radio. History 98.5 FM began as XELA-FM in 1962, owned by Radio Metropolitana, S.A., the con ...

Mexico City. In 2010, RMX began the 212 annual concert in Guadalajara, now among western Mexico's largest musical events.

Sale to ''El Heraldo de México''

On June 16, 2019, Grupo Imagen and Grupo Andrade, owners of the ''

'' newspaper, announced that they had reached a strategic agreement under which Imagen would sell XHDL-FM and XHAV-FM to the newspaper, subject to the approval of the

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. RMX closed down at 11:59pm on Friday, June 21, to allow ''El Heraldo'' to begin operation of the station as Heraldo Radio on June 22. The station remains a full-time simulcast of

. The transfer of the concessions of XHDL and XHAV to GA Radiocomunicaciones, S.A. de C.V., a subsidiary of Grupo Andrade, was approved by the IFT on August 28, 2019.IFT: XIX Sesión Ordinaria del Pleno
August 28, 2019

References

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