Clásica FM

Language and country do not match up the obvious way here. Clásica FM transmits from Ecuador, where Spanish leads the listing, and broadcasts in English, which seven of the country's stations use.

The English shelf on this site collects every station in the language regardless of where it transmits from, and the directory's English entries are concentrated in United States, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom. Reading the shelf next to this page is the quickest way to see how far the language's dial actually reaches.

Clásica FM is the only station in Ecuador whose first tag is clasic rock, out of 75 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in Ecuador does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only clasic rock station.

The stream is encoded at 378 kbps, more than twice the 128 kbps median for Ecuador. Bitrate is the one quality figure the public directory carries, and on this entry it is unambiguous.

This one is HLS, a segmented format rather than a single continuous stream. It is worth knowing because the failure is specific and fixable rather than a dead station: the address works, the browser just cannot open that shape of address unaided.