Radio Krioyo 89.7 FM

At position 7 of 9, this is one of the stations in Curaçao that almost nobody arrives at by browsing. That is the case for having a page at all. A station reachable only by knowing its name is a station most directories lose.

Radio Krioyo 89.7 FM streams at 52 kbps against Curaçao's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 69% 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.

Radio Krioyo 89.7 FM streams in AAC while most of Curaçao's dial is MP3. Codec choice is mostly invisible to a listener, and it is one of the clearest fingerprints of which hosting provider a station uses, since providers default their customers into a format and few customers ever change it.

Radio Krioyo 89.7 FM publishes an HLS stream. That is a modern and perfectly good way to broadcast, and it is also why the button on this page may not start it: HLS needs a player that can read a playlist and fetch segments, which a browser audio tag does not do on its own.

Its audio comes from radios.wakenext.com. One other station in Curaçao streams from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.