BandNews FM

BandNews FM ranks 74 among 430 stations in Brazil. High enough that the country hub carries it in its own tables, and far enough from the head that the neighbours below are a genuinely different set of stations from the famous ones.

News is one of Brazil's headline genres in this directory, and BandNews FM is one of 16 stations there leading with it. The country hub prints the same tag near the top of its own list, so this station sits inside the country's main sound rather than off to one side.

The gap here is large: 64 kbps where Brazil's stations typically run 128. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

Encoded as AAC+, one of the three formats Brazil's stations use. The country page breaks all of them out with counts.

41 of Brazil's entries are served from playerservices.streamtheworld.com, this one among them. A shared host means a shared fate. If this stream is silent, the fastest check is not this station's own site but whether its neighbours on the same platform are playing.

Their site is bandnewsfm.com.br, a domain registered in Brazil. Where a station's own address and its listed country agree, the entry is a little more trustworthy than one where they do not.