Antenne Österreich

Antenne Österreich sits in the tail of Austria's 103 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.

Three stations in Austria lead with the tag pop, and Antenne Österreich is one of them. That is a small enough group to hear end to end, and the tags are the broadcasters' own words rather than a classification imposed here.

No bitrate is recorded against this stream. It is a common gap: the value is scraped from the stream's headers and plenty of servers do not send them. Press play and your browser will tell you more in two seconds than the field would have.

Where Austria's stations mostly use MP3, this one uses AAC. Worth a line only because it is a difference, and because the country page's format breakdown is one of the quicker ways to see which providers a national dial runs on.

Its audio comes straight from edge18.streamonkey.net, an address unique to this entry in Austria'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.