How we checked Top Merengue Radio
Everything published about this station was read from the station's own website or its own stream, and every fact below names the page it came from and the year it was read. We changed 2 things about this entry. We also found 5 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
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Description
Top Merengue Radio is a single-genre merengue channel operated by Public Media Dominiserver, S.R.L. as part of the Latina 104 network, which calls itself "La Bonita de Santo Domingo" and "Radio Dominicana en Vivo". The channel's page on the operator's site is a full-screen player and nothing more: the operator publishes no written description, no schedule and no presenter list for it. Its own stream server states its identity plainly, with the server title "Top Merengue Radio" and the genre "Merengue", and points back to the network site as its home. The network sells digital radio advertising across its channels and runs a shop and a news section alongside them.
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Public Media Dominiserver, S.R.L., the operator's own Shoutcast stream server for Latina 104 | 2026 |
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Artists
Sampled live from the channel's own stream server: Tono Rosario, "Como No Voy a Decir", from the 2009 album "Me Olvide de Vivir" on Prime Records, and before it Tono Rosario, "Ojala Se Seque El Rio - Live", from the 2006 album "En Vivo... El Original". The stream carries full tagging including album, label and year for each record it plays.
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Public Media Dominiserver, S.R.L., the operator's own Shoutcast stream server for Latina 104 | 2026 |
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Contact route
A human is reachable, through the network rather than the channel. The operator's own contact page publishes a street address, one telephone number that doubles as a WhatsApp number with a click-to-chat link, two email addresses, and named Facebook, Instagram and YouTube accounts, and identifies the owner by name as Amin Alexander Mendez. There is no contact route specific to Top Merengue Radio and no request line.
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Public Media Dominiserver, S.R.L., the operator's own Shoutcast stream server for Latina 104 | 2026 |
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Contact page
https://latina104.net/contactos/
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Public Media Dominiserver, S.R.L., the operator's own Shoutcast stream server for Latina 104 | 2026 |
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Era
Not a decades station, but the records sampled were released in 2006 and 2009, so the library reaches back across the modern merengue catalogue rather than sitting on current releases.
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Public Media Dominiserver, S.R.L., the operator's own Shoutcast stream server for Latina 104 | 2026 |
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Music
Merengue, and only merengue; the station's own stream server declares the genre as "Merengue" with no secondary genres set.
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Public Media Dominiserver, S.R.L., the operator's own Shoutcast stream server for Latina 104 | 2026 |
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Language
Spanish. The network site, its contact page and its advertising material are entirely in Spanish, and every track sampled on this channel is a Spanish-language merengue record.
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Public Media Dominiserver, S.R.L., the operator's own Shoutcast stream server for Latina 104 | 2026 |
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Kind
Automated file playout with no live source. Its own stream server reports Shoutcast DNAS 2.6.1.777 carrying a 128 kbps AAC+ mount that has been up continuously for about eleven days, fed by a TRANSCast encoder reading tagged files, and the player's own configuration on the channel page sets autoplay with the offline message "Temporalmente fuera".
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Public Media Dominiserver, S.R.L., the operator's own Shoutcast stream server for Latina 104 | 2026 |
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Worth knowing
The binding evidence for this row is the stream itself rather than the page: the mount name topmerengueradio, the server title "Top Merengue Radio", the genre "Merengue" and an icy-url pointing at latina104.net together tie the channel to this operator, which matters because the channel page itself contains no words of the operator's own at all. Its own stats report 15 listeners with a peak of 58 and about 246,000 stream hits.
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Public Media Dominiserver, S.R.L., the operator's own Shoutcast stream server for Latina 104 | 2026 |
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Where
Herrera, Santo Domingo Oeste, Dominican Republic, the address the operator publishes on its own contact page. Online only, with no frequency of its own; the 104 in the parent brand's name belongs to Latina 104, not to this channel.
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Public Media Dominiserver, S.R.L., the operator's own Shoutcast stream server for Latina 104 | 2026 |
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On air
none. I looked at the channel's own page, the network's contact page and its advertising page, and no presenter is named for this channel; the stream sends no announcer metadata either.
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Public Media Dominiserver, S.R.L., the operator's own Shoutcast stream server for Latina 104 | 2026 |
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Programmes
none. The channel page carries no schedule, and the network's Programacion section belongs to the parent Latina 104 service rather than to this channel, so nothing on the operator's site attributes a named show to Top Merengue Radio.
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Public Media Dominiserver, S.R.L., the operator's own Shoutcast stream server for Latina 104 | 2026 |
What we corrected
Each of these changed a field in our own entry. The reasoning is the researcher's own, recorded when the change was made.
| Field | Change | Why |
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| homepage url | https://latina104.net/top-merengue-radio/ → https://latina104.net/emisoras-dominicanas/top-merengue-radio/ | The stored address https://latina104.net/top-merengue-radio/ is a redirect stub, not the page itself: following it lands on https://latina104.net/emisoras-dominicanas/top-merengue-radio/, and the operator's own WordPress API confirms that is canonical, returning post id 6010 titled 'Top Merengue Radio' with that link. The destination is on the same registrable domain, so no guard is at risk either way, but storing the address the operator actually serves avoids a hop. The channel is bound to this operator independently of the page: its stream server at https://radio.dominiserver.com/proxy/topmerengueradio/stats?sid=1&json=1 reports servertitle 'Top Merengue Radio' with serverurl https://latina104.net. |
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es
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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Filled from the operator's own material. The network site latina104.net publishes in Spanish throughout, including its channel pages, its navigation (Inicio, Ver emisoras, Programacion, Noticias, Contactos) and its contact page at https://latina104.net/contactos/, which gives the operator as Public Media Dominiserver, S.R.L. of Herrera, Santo Domingo Oeste. The channel's own stream server declares genre 'Merengue', and the records logged on it are Spanish-language merengue: Tono Rosario, 'Como No Voy a Decir' (Me Olvide de Vivir, 2009, Prime Records) and Tono Rosario, 'Ojala Se Seque El Rio - Live' (En Vivo... El Original, 2006). Read only from this channel's own stream, not from its salsa sibling. |
What we found and did not publish
Material that would have made this page fuller, and was refused. A page with five named presenters looks better than a page with none even when the five are a website theme's demonstration content, and the difference is invisible to a reader. So it is recorded here instead.
| What we could have said | Why we did not |
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| Anything belonging to Top Salsa Radio, including its sampled tracks and its own stream statistics | The two are sibling channels on one operator's site, and this is precisely the network bleed the batch warns about in both directions.
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| The player configuration fields shoutcastpath "/electronic.mp3", shoutcastid "1" and a fixed itunestoken on the channel page | Those are unedited defaults of the WordPress radio player plugin, and "/electronic.mp3" in particular would read as a genre or a mount this station does not use.
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| The network's own schema.org organisation block, which gives its name as "Radio en Linea" with an alternateName of "miblog" and a legalName that is an email address | Those are template artefacts left by an SEO plugin, and the operator's real trading identity is on its contact page.
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| The stream server's icy-notice lines telling listeners the stream "requires Winamp" | Stock Shoutcast boilerplate, not the operator's guidance.
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| The internal "nextsong topmerengueradio ... sctrans2next" strings attached to each played track | Encoder queue markers, not content.
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If you think something here is wrong
Tell us which fact and what you found instead. Everything above names its source and its date, so a disagreement can be settled by looking rather than argued. Where another site disagrees with us, it is usually because it is repeating a radio directory, and occasionally because we got it wrong. We would like to know which.
Read from the station's own material; this page is generated from the
catalogue as it stands now, so it changes when the research does. Research
current as at 2026.
This entry began as: Top Merengue Radio — listed via Radio Browser · https://latina104.net/top-merengue-radio/