La 2x4

La 2x4 is the tango radio of the City of Buenos Aires - FM 92.7, part of the city's public media system, and by its own description the only radio in the world dedicated entirely to tango. The studios host live orchestras most weeks.

The name is the two-four beat of tango itself, and the programming lives up to it: the classic orchestras and the new ensembles, from Gardel to Piazzolla to today's young singers, milongas and boleros, live sessions with working musicians - and the milonga never closes - tango for the whole world, twenty-four hours a day, with playlists for purists and newcomers alike.

The station streams from its page on the Buenos Aires city site and the BA Medios app, beside its sister Radio Ciudad, and it even hands out its own awards to tango's best; the Facebook page counts over a hundred thousand followers. Public radio as cultural policy: a whole frequency reserved for the city's own music.