XHPPLY was awarded in the IFT-4radio auction of 2017 on a rebound after the initial winning bidder, Tecnoradio, failed to pay fordozens of stations they had bought across the country, including their 55.7 million pesobid for this frequency. The winning bid by a consortium of Carlos de Jesús Aguirre Gómez and CJAguirre Nacional, S.A.P.I. de C.V., was 11.5 million pesos.