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{{short description|Radio station in Guadalajara, Jalisco}}
{{Infobox radio station
| name             = XEDKR-AM
| logo             =
| city             = Tonalá, Jalisco
| area             = [[Guadalajara]]
| branding         = Universal
| airdate          = 1953
| frequency        = 700 ([[kilohertz|kHz]])
| format           = News/talk, contemporary music in English
| power            = 10 kW day<br/>0.15 kW night{{mexico-inf|AM|accessdate=2014-12-23}}
| class            = B
| coordinates      = {{coord|20|38|48|N|103|13|28|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}
| callsign_meaning = '''XEDK''' '''R'''adio
| former_callsigns =
| owner            = [[Grupo Radio Centro]]
| licensee         = XEDKR-AM, S.A. de C.V.
| webcast          = {{listenlive|https://playerservices.streamtheworld.com/api/livestream-redirect/XEDKR_AM_SC}}
| website = {{url|http://laoctava.com}}<br/>{{url|http://universal881.com/}}
| affiliations     =
| licensing_authority= [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]]
}}
'''XEDKR-AM''' (700 [[AM broadcasting|AM]], "Universal") is a Spanish-language [[radio station]] in [[Guadalajara]]. It relays programming from [[XHRED-FM]] 88.1 in Mexico City. [[700 AM|700&nbsp;kHz]] is a United States [[clear-channel]] frequency.
==History==
[[File:XEDKR RadioRed700 logo.jpg|left|140px|thumb|Logo used as Radio Red until January 2019]]
The first concession for 700 AM in [[Zapopan, Jalisco|Zapopan]] was awarded on October 17, 1953, for '''XEAR-AM''' and awarded to J. de Jesús Franco Gómez.<ref>[https://rpc.ift.org.mx/vrpc/pdfs/090252648002c767.pdf Original XEDKR concession]</ref> By the 1960s, the station was transferred to Asociación Radiofónica, S.A., and sometime between 1969 and 1974, the callsign was changed to the present XEDKR-AM as a result of its acquisition by Radio Grupo DK (the Guadalajara arm of [[Radio Programas de México]]). It was known as Radio Ambiente in the early 1970s and by the late 1980s had become a direct repeater of [[XERED-AM|Radio Red]]. It was transferred in 1991 to XEDKR-AM, S.A. de C.V., and sold along with the rest of RPM to [[Grupo Radio Centro]] in 1995.
On January 14, 2019, concurrent with a major reshuffling and the relaunch of [[XERC-FM]] Mexico City as talk station "Radio Centro 97.7", XEDKR and [[XESTN-AM]] Monterrey began simulcasting that station instead of Radio Red.
As part of the launch of Radio Centro's TV station, XHFAMX-TDT, on October 31, 2019, Universal moved to XERC-FM and all the talk programming moved back to XHRED, which took the same "La Octava", XEDKR and [[XESTN-AM]] Monterrey began simulcasting that station.
==References==
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==External links==
{{AM station data|101126|XEDKR}}
{{Guadalajara Radio}}
[[Category:Radio stations in Guadalajara, Jalisco]]
[[Category:Grupo Radio Centro]]
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