ABC Perth

At position 120 of 140, this is one of the stations in Australia that almost nobody arrives at by browsing. That is the case for having a page at all. A station reachable only by knowing its name is a station most directories lose.

ABC Perth has a zero in the directory's open count. It is the least interesting number on this page and the one most likely to be misread, so it is worth being plain: it measures traffic through radio-browser, not audience.

ABC Perth is the only station in Australia whose first tag is variety, 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 variety 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 audio comes from mediaserviceslive.akamaized.net, and 27 other stations in Australia are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of Australia's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.