ABC Gippsland

ABC Gippsland is deep in Australia's listing, at 119 of 140. Down here the ordering barely orders anything: the difference between one position and the next is often a single recorded open, so treat the neighbours below as a shelf rather than as a ranking.

No opens have been recorded against ABC Gippsland in the public directory. Plenty of working stations sit at zero, because the count only rises when somebody plays the stream from a client that reports back, and most listening never touches the directory at all.

The language field is empty for this entry. It is left empty here too rather than filled from the country, because the shelves on this site are only worth using if what is on them was actually declared.

At 56 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on Australia's dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

Its audio comes straight from abc.streamguys1.com, an address unique to this entry in Australia's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.