ABC AFL

ABC AFL sits in the tail of Australia's 140 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

ABC AFL is the only station in Australia whose first tag is live sports, out of 140 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in Australia does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only live sports station.

This one is HLS, a segmented format rather than a single continuous stream. It is worth knowing because the failure is specific and fixable rather than a dead station: the address works, the browser just cannot open that shape of address unaided.

The stream address on this entry points at mediaserviceslive.akamaized.net, which is where 27 other stations in Australia are served from as well. Platforms of that size carry the long tail of a country's dial, and they are the reason a listing can look broken when it is one host having a quiet hour.