FM Extremidad Casares

FM Extremidad is the local station of Vicente Casares, a quiet railway town in the Canuelas district of Buenos Aires province, an hour's drive southwest of the capital, where the countryside begins - the kind of small Argentine town where the local FM is still the town square.

On air twenty-four hours, every hour of every day, it carries music, local information and community life for Casares and the surrounding farm belt. Small-town stations like this rarely make headlines - they just keep the weather, the announcements, the birthdays and the favourite songs coming, and the phone line in the studio keeps ringing.

The station also streams online, listed in the Argentine directories, so the town's voice travels with its people wherever they move. For a town of a few thousand, one station is plenty - local radio, in the original sense of the word.