Radio Recuerdo 860 (Mty)

In Mexico's ordering this is number 190 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.

The open count against Radio Recuerdo 860 (Mty) is two, 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.

Radio Recuerdo 860 (Mty) shares its leading tag, 860 am, with two other Mexico entries. Across every country the directory has 3 stations leading with it, so the rail below is mostly a trip abroad.

The stream is 93 kbps where Mexico's median is 128. Below the country's middle, which usually points at an older encoder or a deliberate choice to stay light, and matters far more for music than for talk.

The audio comes from mdstrm.com, and 23 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.