Broadcasting on 1260 kHz, XEL-AM is owned by Grupo ACIR and carries its La Comadre Regional Mexican format.

The first concession for what would become XEL was actually for a station on 1140 kHz with the call sign XETA, made to Manuel Espinosa Tagle on August 16, 1932.

The format was changed to rock in English with the slogan Una buena costumbre de la gente joven ("A good habit of young people").

ACIR attempted to sell the station to an ESNE affiliate, an act blocked by the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT), which in its decision considered that the proposed controlling owner, ESNE Radio México, S.A. de C.V., acted like a religious organization and was thus barred from owning a broadcast station.

[5] After this event, ESNE Radio opted to stop operating the station on December 31, with ACIR resuming La Comadre programming on January 1, 2022.