XEQ was founded in 1969, as XHTM-TV channel 8 operated by Televisión Independiente de México (TIM).

[2] In January 1973, TIM merged with Telesistema Mexicano, becoming Televisión Vía Satélite, better known as Televisa.

In 1985, Imevisión desired to add a VHF station in Mexico City, which became XHIMT-TV channel 7.

In order to accomplish this, a complex channel swap was conducted involving XHTM and Televisa's relay stations at Altzomoni in the State of Mexico.

The station's digital signal is multiplexed: XEQ-TV and other television stations in Mexico City and Toluca discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 9 (8 in Toluca), on December 17, 2015 at 12:00 a.m., as part of the IFT federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.