ABC Radio Adelaide

Out of 140 entries in Australia, this one ranks 21. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

The directory records no language for ABC Radio Adelaide. That gap is common and it is upstream of this site: broadcasters fill the field or they do not, and roughly a third of the stations with pages here have left it empty. It means the station appears on its country hub and not on any language shelf, which is the one place the omission costs it.

The country page counts news among its commonest tags, and this station is one of the 7 entries in Australia behind that count. Worldwide the tag leads 307 stations, which makes the rail below a very wide shelf.

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.

28 of Australia's entries are served from mediaserviceslive.akamaized.net, this one among them. A shared host means a shared fate. If this stream is silent, the fastest check is not this station's own site but whether its neighbours on the same platform are playing.