BandNews FM Belo Horizonte

Position 127 of 430 puts this station in the middle of Brazil's directory presence. The middle is worth browsing precisely because the ordering has stopped sorting by fame and has not yet stopped sorting at all.

The open count against BandNews FM Belo Horizonte is four, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

A news station on a dial where news is one of the commonest tags: 16 entries in Brazil lead with it. The tags are broadcaster-supplied throughout, so read the count as how Brazil's broadcasters describe themselves.

At 64 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on Brazil's dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

The audio comes from playerservices.streamtheworld.com, and 40 other stations in Brazil 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 Brazil's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.