JOY 94.9

This is one of the quieter entries in Australia's listing, at 126 of 140. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

The directory records no opens at all for JOY 94.9. That is a fact about the directory rather than about the station: a stream nobody has opened through radio-browser can be perfectly healthy and well listened to on its own site or on a radio. It does mean this page is where the station's directory history starts.

JOY 94.9 has no language recorded in the directory. We do not infer one. Guessing from the country would put every station in Australia on the same shelf regardless of what it broadcasts, which is exactly the kind of filled-in blank that makes a directory untrustworthy.

The gap here is large: 64 kbps where Australia's stations typically run 128. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

Its audio comes straight from stream.joy.org.au, 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.