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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.
LOS40 Agua Prieta has carried Spanish pop under the LOS40 franchise since 2021, broadcasting from XHNNO-FM's 1994 concession into a Sonoran border city founded around a Douglas, Arizona railroad crossing and shaped by Pancho Villa-era history.
Radio Gladys Palmera Latin Fresh grew out of founder Alejandra Fierro Eleta's 50,000-record Latin music archive, launched in Madrid in 1986 and now broadcasting from Spain as the country's first station dedicated to Latin and Caribbean music.
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.
La Salsa Maestra streams salsa from Lima, Peru with the tagline "la salsa que enseña," continuing a radio-driven tradition of teaching salsa to listeners that dates back to the genre's 1980s Peruvian breakthrough.
Radio Guatapurí has broadcast from Valledupar, Colombia since 1963, named after the Guatapurí River celebrated in vallenato song, and has covered the Festival de la Leyenda Vallenata every year since 1967.
