ORF Hitradio Ö3 | HQ

Of the 103 stations in Austria with a page on this site, ORF Hitradio Ö3 | HQ is the one the directory records the most opens for. That makes it the default entry point to the country, and it is where the country hub starts its own list.

With 147 opens recorded, this is one of the directory's heavily played streams. That is the strongest thing the public data says about any station, and it is still a measure of traffic through one directory rather than of audience.

Orf is one of Austria's headline genres in this directory, and ORF Hitradio Ö3 | HQ is one of 13 stations there leading with it. The country hub prints the same tag near the top of its own list, so this station sits inside the country's main sound rather than off to one side.

ORF Hitradio Ö3 | HQ streams at 192 kbps, above Austria's median of 128 kbps. It sits with the 59% of the country's stations that reach 128 kbps or better, which is the line this site uses for a stream worth listening to properly rather than in the background.

12 of Austria's entries are served from orf-live.ors-shoutcast.at, 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.