Bésame (Medellín) 94.9 FM

Out of 158 entries in Colombia, this one ranks 12. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

Bésame (Medellín) 94.9 FM shares its leading tag, baladas, with one other Colombia entry. Across every country the directory has 11 stations leading with it, so the rail below is mostly a trip abroad.

The gap here is large: 64 kbps where Colombia'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.

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.