Panamericana Retro Rock

Panamericana Retro Rock is deep in Peru's listing, at 73 of 119. Down here the ordering barely orders anything: the difference between one position and the next is often a single recorded open, so treat the neighbours below as a shelf rather than as a ranking.

Language and country do not match up the obvious way here. Panamericana Retro Rock transmits from Peru, where Spanish leads the listing, and broadcasts in English, which 17 of the country's stations use.

The shelf for the language holds 5,984 stations, led by United States. A station like this one broadcasting from Peru is what stops that shelf from being a second copy of one country's hub.

Two stations in Peru lead with the tag 00s, and Panamericana Retro Rock is one of them. That is a small enough group to hear end to end, and the tags are the broadcasters' own words rather than a classification imposed here.

The stream address on this entry points at mdstrm.com, which is where 17 other stations in Peru 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.