VIDA 89.7 (Acapulco)

At position 290 of 444, this is one of the stations in Mexico that almost nobody arrives at by browsing. That is the case for having a page at all. A station reachable only by knowing its name is a station most directories lose.

The open count against VIDA 89.7 (Acapulco) is one, 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.

The 89.7 fm 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.

VIDA 89.7 (Acapulco) streams at 25 kbps against Mexico's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 49% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

The stream is served from sg.centrocibernetico.com, an address five other entries in Mexico use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.