XEN-AM

XEN-AM (branded as La 69) is a radio station based in Mexico City and airing a news radio format on 690 kHz. The station is owned by Grupo Radio Centro.

XEN-AM can be heard in HD on XHFAJ-FMHD2.

History

XEN-AM started as CYS, on 710 kHz. The station was owned by General Electric Mexico from 1925 to 1930.

For most of 1930 from February 5 to the end of the year, the station, by then known as "Radio Mundial XEN" and bearing its current callsign, offered something never before provided on radio: a constant all-news service. Radio Noticias was owned by Félix F. Palavicini, a journalist who acquired the station at the start of the year.

The earliest concession for XEN-AM was awarded to Cervecería Modelo, S.A., in 1934. At that time the station still broadcast on 710 kHz. The next year, the station was transferred to Guillermina Pontones de del Conde, and later it moved to 690 kHz.

Beginning in the 1950s and until the early 1990s, it carried a world music format as Radio Mundo. In 1993, the station switched to a sports format as Radio Sportiva.