Gaúcha

In Brazil's listing Gaúcha lands at 22 of 430, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

At 21 recorded opens, Gaúcha is one of the streams that people actually reach through the public directory rather than through a station's own app. The count is the whole basis of the ranking on this site, and it is worth knowing that it measures directory traffic specifically.

Futebol is the station's own leading tag and no other entry in Brazil uses it that way. Worth reading as self-description: the directory takes tags as broadcasters type them and does not reconcile them.

Twice the local median and then some: 1000 kbps where Brazil's stations typically manage 128. Whether you can hear the difference depends entirely on what you are listening on, but the headroom is there.

Gaúcha publishes an HLS stream. That is a modern and perfectly good way to broadcast, and it is also why the button on this page may not start it: HLS needs a player that can read a playlist and fetch segments, which a browser audio tag does not do on its own.

Its audio comes straight from 1132747t.ha.azioncdn.net, an address unique to this entry in Brazil'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.