Radio Esperanza (Monterrey)

In Mexico's ordering this is number 124 of 444, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

Three recorded opens in the public directory. That is a trace rather than a measurement, and it is the reason this page describes where the station sits rather than how popular it is.

1140 is the station's own leading tag and no other entry in Mexico uses it that way. Worth reading as self-description: the directory takes tags as broadcasters type them and does not reconcile them.

The stream address on this entry points at playerservices.streamtheworld.com, which is where 103 other stations in Mexico 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 broadcaster publishes at radioesperanza.mx, on Mexico's own country domain. A national domain is a small piece of evidence that the station is what the directory says it is, since these are the harder ones to register from somewhere else.

Of everything the directory lists in Mexico, the entry this page reads closest to is ABC Deportes (Monterrey), so it is worth setting out what separates the two. Read as words rather than as a brand, this name says hope and that one says sport. The broadcaster tagged this entry 1140, 1140 am, am, apodaca, cristiana, cristianas and grupo radio alegría, which the other entry is not tagged with. The other entry carries the 92.1, 92.1 fm, abc deportes, deporte, deportes, fm and general escobedo tags and this one does not. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, radioesperanza.mx and abcdeportes.mx.