Bons Tempos FM

In Brazil's listing Bons Tempos FM lands at 38 of 430, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

Bons Tempos FM is the only station in Brazil whose first tag is nostalgia, out of 430 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in Brazil does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only nostalgia station.

Bons Tempos FM 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.

AAC here, on a dial that carries three different formats. A mixed codec listing usually means a country whose stations are hosted in several different places rather than through one dominant provider.

The stream is served from server02.ouvir.radio.br:8050, which no other entry in Brazil 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.