Especial 93.5 FM

Especial 93.5 FM is deep in the Dominican Republic's listing, at 52 of 66. Down here the ordering barely orders anything: the difference between one position and the next is often a single recorded open, so treat the neighbours below as a shelf rather than as a ranking.

The open count against Especial 93.5 FM is one, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

The stream is encoded at 320 kbps, more than twice the 128 kbps median for the Dominican Republic. Bitrate is the one quality figure the public directory carries, and on this entry it is unambiguous.

The stream address on this entry points at stream.zeno.fm, which is where 12 other stations in the Dominican Republic 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.

The station's own site is zeno.fm. The .fm domain has nothing to do with FM radio or with where a station is: it belongs to the Federated States of Micronesia and has been sold to broadcasters worldwide for years, so read it as branding rather than as a location.