Radio Victoria

Radio Victoria is at 72 in a listing of 122. Read the rank as a rough position rather than a standing: the click counts in the middle of a long national list are close enough together that a handful of opens moves a station several places.

With two recorded opens, Radio Victoria sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Belgium's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

The 80s corner of Belgium's dial is two stations deep in this snapshot. Small clusters like that are usually the most rewarding thing on a country page, because they are what the national broadcasters at the top of the list are not.

The stream is encoded at 320 kbps, more than twice the 128 kbps median for Belgium. Bitrate is the one quality figure the public directory carries, and on this entry it is unambiguous.

The stream is served from streamer1.radiovictoria.be, which no other entry in Belgium uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.

Radio Victoria keeps its own site at radiovictoria.be. The address sits under Belgium's country code, which lines up with where the directory says the station broadcasts from.