Cristal 100.3

Cristal 100.3 sits in the tail of Argentina's 171 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

Cristal 100.3 has a zero in the directory's open count. It is the least interesting number on this page and the one most likely to be misread, so it is worth being plain: it measures traffic through radio-browser, not audience.

The station's language is Spanish, the commonest of the four the directory records for Argentina. Language is one of the two axes this site indexes on, and the Spanish shelf collects these stations across every country that carries them.

At 72 kbps, this sits below most of Argentina's listing, whose median is 96 kbps. 38% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better, so the dial around it is mostly higher.

AAC+ here, on a dial that carries three different formats. A mixed codec listing usually means a country whose stations are hosted in several different places rather than through one dominant provider.

The stream is served from streaming01.shockmedia.com.ar:10158, which no other entry in Argentina uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.