Rock FM 105.5

Rock FM 105.5 sits in the tail of Nicaragua's 17 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

Rock FM 105.5 broadcasts in English from Nicaragua, where the directory records only one station doing so. Nicaragua's listing is otherwise led by Spanish, so this is a genuinely unusual entry on its own national dial rather than one of a set.

Where else English is on air, according to the same snapshot: mostly United States, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom. The shelf lists all 5,984 of them together, which is the view a country hub cannot give.

Rock FM 105.5 is the only station in Nicaragua whose first tag is classic rock, out of 17 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in Nicaragua does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only classic rock station.

The stream is encoded at 256 kbps, more than twice the 128 kbps median for Nicaragua. Bitrate is the one quality figure the public directory carries, and on this entry it is unambiguous.