Olímpica Stereo (Barranquilla)

In Colombia's ordering this is number 72 of 158, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

With two recorded opens, Olímpica Stereo (Barranquilla) 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.

Olímpica Stereo (Barranquilla) 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.

The stream address on this entry points at playerservices.streamtheworld.com, which is where 36 other stations in Colombia 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.