In 1993, as grupera music began to gain success, the station was lent to Grupo Radio Centro in exchange for XEEST-AM in a relationship that would last 26 years.

This time, the swap was due to technical considerations involving GRC's contract to operate XHFO, in order to preserve the continuity of the more profitable "Universal" format.

After a reorganization of GRC's AM stations in 2017, most talk programs from XERED-AM moved to XHFO, limiting music to overnight hours.

The new station, known as XFM 92.1, carried the Central FM newscast hosted by Pedro Ferriz de Con in mornings[2] and other news programs, as well as an English-language classic hits format aimed at Generation X listeners.

[5] At midnight on February 1, the station flipped to an unbranded Top 40 CHR format, however, XFM remained temporarily available as an online stream.