The station is owned by the state of Colima through the Instituto Colimense de Radio y Televisión and broadcasts on 98.1 MHz.
XEBCO-AM on 1210 kHz to the air on June 26, 1986, as part of a joint project between the Instituto Mexicano de la Radio and the state government of Colima.
Broadcasting with 50 kW power day and 5 kW night from its transmitter in Villa de Álvarez (still home to the radio studios of XHIRC), its signal covered the state of Colima as well as portions of Michoacán and Jalisco and carried programming from XEB-AM "Radio México", thus the XEBCO callsign.
[4] In shuttering the Radio México Internacional shortwave and returning XEBCO and Campeche's XETEB to their state governments, the IMER cited their obsolete equipment and high cost to the agency.
The next day, XHIRC-FM "Conexión 98.1 FM" signed on for the first time, under the aegis of the recently expanded Instituto Colimense de Radio y Televisión.