Radio Rivadavia AM 630. Ciudad de Buenos Aires

Radio Rivadavia AM 630. Ciudad de Buenos Aires is at position 13 of the 171 stations in Argentina with pages here, inside the top quarter of the national listing. That is high enough to be reached by browsing rather than by searching, which is how most of these pages are actually found.

The directory counts 22 opens against this stream. That is well above Argentina's median and it is the reason the station sits where it does on the country list, since the ordering is the count and nothing else.

Radio Rivadavia AM 630. Ciudad de Buenos Aires streams at 64 kbps, under Argentina's median of 96 kbps. A lower rate is not automatically worse: speech carries perfectly well below the music threshold, and a station built for phones on a weak connection has a good reason to encode this way.

The audio comes from playerservices.streamtheworld.com, and 31 other stations in Argentina are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of Argentina's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.

Of everything the directory lists in Argentina, the entry this page reads closest to is Mitre AM 790. AAC Alta. Ciudad de Buenos Aires, so it is worth setting out what separates the two. The number each one is named for is the difference between them: six hundred and thirty here and seven hundred and ninety there. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, rivadavia.com.ar and radiomitre.cienradios.com.