Olímpica Stereo (Medellín) 104.9-FM

Olímpica Stereo (Medellín) 104.9-FM ranks 4 among 158 stations in Colombia. High enough that the country hub carries it in its own tables, and far enough from the head that the neighbours below are a genuinely different set of stations from the famous ones.

The country page counts salsa among its commonest tags, and this station is one of the 7 entries in Colombia behind that count. Worldwide the tag leads 15 stations, which makes the rail below a very wide shelf.

Olímpica Stereo (Medellín) 104.9-FM 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.