Rádio BandNews SP 96.9 FM

Rádio BandNews SP 96.9 FM sits at 111 of 430 in Brazil's listing, in the body of the list rather than at either end. This is where most of a national dial actually lives, and it is the part a country hub's first fifty rows never reach.

News is one of Brazil's headline genres in this directory, and Rádio BandNews SP 96.9 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 directory carries no bitrate for Rádio BandNews SP 96.9 FM. The field is filled from what the stream's own server reports when it is scanned, so an empty one usually means a server that answers without announcing itself rather than a bad stream. Brazil's stations that do report come in at a median of 128 kbps, for whatever that is worth as a guess.

An FLV stream on a MP3 dial. The public directory records the format as the server reports it, and formats this far off the beaten track usually indicate somebody running their own encoder rather than a hosted service.

The stream address on this entry points at playerservices.streamtheworld.com, which is where 40 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.