Alternativa by MIX (iHeart Radio)

Among the 444 stations in Mexico with pages, Alternativa by MIX (iHeart Radio) is around the halfway mark. Anything in this stretch is reachable from the country's numbered pages rather than from its front table, which is why those pages exist.

With two recorded opens, Alternativa by MIX (iHeart Radio) sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Mexico's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

The station's leading tag is 80s, shared with 4 other entries in Mexico. It is a well populated tag here without being one of the country's defining ones, which is a common and unremarkable place for a station to sit.

At 48 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on Mexico's dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

The audio comes from playerservices.streamtheworld.com, and 103 other stations in Mexico 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 Mexico's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.