Hot 102

Position 4 of 24 in Puerto Rico. The ordering is a click count and nothing more, but at this depth it still separates stations meaningfully, which stops being true further down the same list.

Language and country do not match up the obvious way here. Hot 102 transmits from Puerto Rico, where Spanish leads the listing, and broadcasts in English, which four 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 Puerto Rico is what stops that shelf from being a second copy of one country's hub.

Hot 102 is the only station in Puerto Rico whose first tag is mainstream, out of 24 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in Puerto Rico does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only mainstream station.

Hot 102 streams at 96 kbps, under Puerto Rico's median of 128 kbps. A lower rate is not automatically worse: speech carries perfectly well below the music threshold, and a station built for phones on a weak connection has a good reason to encode this way.