How we checked Top Salsa 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 Salsa Radio is a single-genre salsa channel run by Public Media Dominiserver, S.R.L. within the Latina 104 network, which describes itself as "La Bonita de Santo Domingo" and broadcasts around the clock from Santo Domingo. Its page on the operator's site is a player and nothing else, with no written description, no schedule and no presenters published for it. The channel's identity comes from its own stream server, which declares the server title "Top Salsa Radio" and the genre "Salsa" and gives the network site as its home. The network sits alongside sibling channels for bachata, merengue, balada, Christian music and romantic music.
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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: Grupo Niche, "Duele Mas", from the 2010 compilation "Mis Favoritas" on Sony Music Latin, and before it Fruko Y Sus Tesos, "El Nuevo Caiman", from the 1998 album "Esto Si Es Salsa de Verdad" on Discos Fuentes. Each played file arrives fully tagged with album, label and year.
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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 this channel. The operator's contact page publishes a street address, a telephone number that is also a WhatsApp number with a click-to-chat link, two email addresses, and named Facebook, Instagram and YouTube accounts, and it names Amin Alexander Mendez as the owner. There is no contact route specific to Top Salsa 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 format, but the records sampled date from 1998 and 2010, so the library draws on the classic salsa catalogue rather than on new 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
Salsa, and nothing else; its own stream server declares "Salsa" as the genre 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 operator publishes in Spanish throughout, and every record sampled on this channel is a Spanish-language salsa track.
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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 on a 128 kbps AAC+ mount with roughly eleven days of unbroken uptime, fed by a TRANSCast encoder reading tagged files, and the channel page's player is configured to 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
This channel carries noticeably more listening than its merengue sibling on the same server, with 24 listeners against 15, a peak of 84 against 58, and about 361,000 stream hits against 246,000, which is the clearest thing distinguishing the two rows given that neither has any editorial text of its own.
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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, per the operator's own contact page. Online only, with no frequency; the 104 belongs to the parent Latina 104 brand and 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 this channel has no presenter named anywhere; the stream carries no announcer metadata.
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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. There is no schedule on the channel page, and the network's Programacion section belongs to the parent Latina 104 service rather than to this channel, so no named show can be attributed here.
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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-salsa-radio/ → https://latina104.net/emisoras-dominicanas/top-salsa-radio/ | The stored address https://latina104.net/top-salsa-radio/ is a redirect stub: it lands on https://latina104.net/emisoras-dominicanas/top-salsa-radio/, and the operator's own WordPress API confirms that is canonical, returning post id 6018 titled 'Top Salsa Radio' with that link. Same registrable domain either way, so this removes a hop rather than fixing a broken field. The channel is independently bound to this operator by its own stream server at https://radio.dominiserver.com/proxy/topsalsaradio/stats?sid=1&json=1, which reports servertitle 'Top Salsa Radio', genre 'Salsa' and serverurl https://latina104.net. |
| language code |
es
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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Filled from the operator's own material, read for this channel separately from its merengue sibling. The network site latina104.net is entirely in Spanish, and its contact page at https://latina104.net/contactos/ names the operator as Public Media Dominiserver, S.R.L. of Herrera, Santo Domingo Oeste, Dominican Republic. This channel's own stream server declares genre 'Salsa', and the records logged on it are Spanish-language salsa: Grupo Niche, 'Duele Mas' (Mis Favoritas, 2010, Sony Music Latin) and Fruko Y Sus Tesos, 'El Nuevo Caiman' (Esto Si Es Salsa de Verdad, 1998, Discos Fuentes). |
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 Merengue Radio, including its sampled tracks and its listener figures | They are two channels on one operator's site and the batch warns about bleed in both directions, so each row was read from its own stream and its own page only.
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| The player configuration fields shoutcastpath "/electronic.mp3", shoutcastid "1" and a fixed itunestoken on this channel page | Unedited WordPress radio player plugin defaults, identical on both sibling pages, and reporting "/electronic.mp3" would invent a format this station does not carry.
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| The network's schema.org organisation block, which names the site "Radio en Linea" with alternateName "miblog" and a legalName consisting of an email address | SEO plugin template artefacts rather than the operator's identity.
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| The stream's icy-notice text claiming the stream "requires Winamp" | Stock Shoutcast boilerplate.
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| The "nextsong topsalsaradio ... 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 Salsa Radio — listed via Radio Browser · https://latina104.net/top-salsa-radio/