Bésame 106.5 FM Cali

In Colombia's listing Bésame 106.5 FM Cali lands at 27 of 158, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

Tagged baladas en español, along with 3 other stations in the country and 15 across the directory.

Bésame 106.5 FM Cali streams at 64 kbps against Colombia's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 59% 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 audio comes from playerservices.streamtheworld.com, and 36 other stations in Colombia 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 Colombia's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.

Their address is besame.fm. A .fm address says the broadcaster wanted a radio sounding domain, not that the station is in Micronesia, which is where that domain actually comes from.