It is the flagship product of Grupo Fórmula, which also owns the TeleFórmula pay TV network (itself made up of Radio Fórmula video simulcasts), and PM Onstreet, an outdoor advertising firm.

Grupo Formula traces its beginnings to 1968, when several Mexico City stations were split from Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta’s Radiópolis system.

[1] On September 19, 1985, Radio Fórmula's headquarters in downtown Mexico City were destroyed by an 8.1 earthquake, which killed several hosts and employees and knocked the AM stations off the air for nearly a month (the FM stations' transmitters are based at the Torre Latinoamericana).

Journalist Pedro Ferriz de Con, who hosted a morning newscast on XEDF-AM, barely managed to survive and spent over a year hospitalized, whereas Sergio Rod and Gustavo Calderón, morning hosts of XEAI-AM, perished.

In 2003, Radio Fórmula programming began to be available in the United States, on stations such as KUNX In Ventura County, California.