ERF Süd

ERF Süd 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.

The open count against ERF Süd is three, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

ERF Süd is the only station in Austria whose first tag is inspiration radio, out of 103 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in Austria does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only inspiration radio station.

Twice the local median and then some: 320 kbps where Austria's stations typically manage 128. Whether you can hear the difference depends entirely on what you are listening on, but the headroom is there.

ERF Süd streams from erfradio.com. No other station in Austria is served from that address, and across the whole directory it appears one time in total.