XHFAMX-TDT

XHDF had limited resources and came to air as Televisión Independiente de México arrived in Mexico City with XHTM-TV channel 8; the station's program schedule consisted mostly of foreign import series.

By 1972, its debts to the federal government were so large that state-owned bank SOMEX expropriated the station and built it into a national television network, first as Canal 13 and later under the aegis of Imevisión.

[4] It struggled to cover the security deposit of 415 million pesos and was forced to seek a loan from Banco del Bajío to help finance the payment.

Citing financial reasons, Astillero's 10pm newscast ended on December 20, 2019, while a month later, Vicente Serrano resigned on-air due him alleging that GRC was trying to dictate the content of his program, which he refused.

It did not help matters that the channel's newscasts were noted to have a strong bias towards the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador and against his opposition, and that because of the company's crisis, their news presence on radio had been reduced to 6 hours on weekdays.

In March 2022, Jacinto Marina became GRC's new general manager, replacing Juan Aguirre Abdó, with one of his first decisions be to cancel La Octava's newscasts for TV, with them remaining only on radio and on digital platforms.

This change took effect in April 1, with La Octava's schedule now only consisting of the aforementioned DW programs as well as independent Mexican films.

In May 2022, GRC announced it had sold XHFAMX to Grupo Andrade, owners of El Heraldo de México and their associated TV and radio networks.

However, under a deal between both companies, GRC continues to operate the 8.2 subchannel, which it launched on August 1 as "Free TV", a general entertainment channel with programming supplied by Olympusat.