XHRED-FM then launched in 1976 picking up a format previously heard on 1560 AM: "Radio VIP" with a mix of programming and music primarily in English.
The station continued to air the Monitor newscasts, now produced by Gutiérrez Vivó's company Infored, alongside contemporary music in English and a nightly program focused on jazz, which ended in 2001.
Radio Centro responded by increasing XHRED-FM's effective radiated power to 95 kW and expanding its own in-house and self-produced news offerings.
[5] Beginning February 10, 2020, the station added contemporary music in Spanish and English during non-news hours following the cancellation of several programs and the elimination of looped newscast reruns.
On May 23, following XERC-FM's sale to MVS Radio, GRC announced that the Universal format would return to XHRED, sharing airtime with three of La Octava's newscasts on weekdays beginning June 1.