LaRadioDeLosLentos - Just Ballads

LaRadioDeLosLentos - Just Ballads 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.

The country's dial has two sizeable languages on it and this station is on the smaller one. 32 entries in Argentina broadcast in English, against a listing whose commonest language is Spanish.

The shelf for the language holds 5,984 stations, led by United States. A station like this one broadcasting from Argentina is what stops that shelf from being a second copy of one country's hub.

Nothing else in Argentina's listing leads with ballads. The tag is self-declared, which makes it a statement of how the broadcaster positions itself rather than a classification anyone audited, and on this dial that statement is unique.

At 32 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on Argentina's dial, whose median is 96 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

The stream is served from 01.solumedia.com.ar:7828, 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.