2dance

2dance sits at 55 of 122 in Belgium's listing, in the body of the list rather than at either end. This is where most of a national dial actually lives, and it is the part a country hub's first fifty rows never reach.

This is a English station in a country whose directory presence is led by Dutch. 12 entries in Belgium broadcast in English, which is a small group and a coherent one, and browsing it is a different experience from browsing the country.

Where else English is on air, according to the same snapshot: mostly United States, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom. The shelf lists all 5,984 of them together, which is the view a country hub cannot give.

2dance is the only station in Belgium whose first tag is dance music, out of 122 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in Belgium does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only dance music station.

Its audio comes straight from webradiobe.be, an address unique to this entry in Belgium'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.