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Romántica 1380 in Mexico City has run under at least six different names and formats since its 1934 founding as XEMX-AM, before Grupo Audiorama's romantic ballad format finally stuck for good in 2006.
Arroba FM Culiacán streams Latin pop on 95.3 FM, a frequency licensed in 1988 that has shifted from grupera station La Plakosa toward Radiorama's youth-focused @FM format, broadcasting from the Sinaloan capital that gave Mexico its banda sinaloense tradition.
Exa FM Aguascalientes streams pop and contemporary hits on 97.3 FM, a frequency that has carried an adult contemporary format, MVS's FM Globo, and now Exa FM since it first went on air in 1978, from a city famous for the Feria Nacional de San Marcos.
SALSA by rautemusik streams a genre born in 1960s New York from one of Europe's biggest internet radio networks, carrying salsa, bachata and merengue to German and international listeners far from its Caribbean roots.
Cumbias Inmortales Radio streams classic and slowed-down cumbia from Monterrey, a genre whose signature sound traces back to a sound engineer's malfunctioning turntable at a neighborhood street dance decades ago.
Espectaculo 100.7 FM streams salsa and merengue from Villa Bruzual, a Venezuelan farm town in the heart of joropo llanero country, as part of the seven-station Circuito Radial RMT network.
Wow 101.1 FM traces back to a 1942 AM concession in Mexico's Comarca Lagunera, changing names three times in six months in 2020 and 2021 before settling into its current English classic hits format.
Radio Energy Cugir broadcasts local pop, rock and Romanian folk music into a Transylvanian town whose real global reputation rests on a 225-year-old metalworks and arms factory.
XHCJ-FM has broadcast from the same Apatzingán concessionaire since 1952, cycling through pop and adult hits formats before settling into the Ke Buena Regional Mexican franchise in 2022, now serving Michoacán's Tierra Caliente lime-growing region.
Exa FM 101.7 Guatemala is a youth-format station run by Radio Grupo Alius, part of a Mexican radio franchise that began in 1972 and now spans 70 stations across nine countries.
XHLY-FM in Morelia dropped its Los 40 franchise format in 2021 and spent several years renaming itself after the current year, from 2021 FM to 2022 FM and beyond, before settling into a permanent identity as Infinito.
Radio WAO broadcasts hits, reggaeton, and merengue from La Fría, a small town in Venezuela's Táchira state. Streaming through Zeno.FM lets it reach far beyond its FM signal, at a moment when Venezuelan radio has faced serious pressure.
