Bahia FM 88.7

This is one of the quieter entries in Brazil's listing, at 289 of 430. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

With one recorded open, Bahia FM 88.7 sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Brazil's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

9 stations in Brazil lead with brazilian music and Bahia FM 88.7 is one of them, though the tag does not make the country's headline list. Across the whole directory 10 stations use it first, so the rail below runs well past Brazil.

Bahia FM 88.7 streams at 48 kbps against Brazil's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 55% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

The stream address on this entry points at ice.fabricahost.com.br, which is where 13 other stations in Brazil are served from as well. Platforms of that size carry the long tail of a country's dial, and they are the reason a listing can look broken when it is one host having a quiet hour.