MIX OCHENTAS: New Wave, Glam y Rock de los 80s

MIX OCHENTAS: New Wave, Glam y Rock de los 80s ranks 28 among 444 stations in Mexico. 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 1980's corner of Mexico's dial is two stations deep in this snapshot. Small clusters like that are usually the most rewarding thing on a country page, because they are what the national broadcasters at the top of the list are not.

The gap here is large: 48 kbps where Mexico's stations typically run 128. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

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.

Of everything the directory lists in Mexico, the entry this page reads closest to is Digital 102.9 (Mty), so it is worth setting out what separates the two. The number each one is named for is the difference between them: the eighties here and one hundred and two point nine there. They are filed in different parts of the country: this one under Ciudad de México, that one under Monterrey, Nuevo León. The broadcaster tagged this entry 1980's, 1980's hits, 1980s, 1980s hits, 80's, 80s, 80s radio and 80s rock, which the other entry is not tagged with. The other entry carries the 102.9 fm, américa, contemporary hits, contemporary hits radio, digital, entretenimiento, español and estación tags and this one does not. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, iheart.com and gruporadioalegria.mx.