Los 40 Principales

This is one of the quieter entries in Colombia's listing, at 108 of 158. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

With one recorded open, Los 40 Principales sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Colombia's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

Los 40 Principales 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 stream is AAC+. Colombia's dial is split across three formats rather than settled on one, with MP3 the commonest, so this station is on a well populated side of a genuinely mixed listing.

37 of Colombia'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.