Rádio Band FM 96.1 FM

Out of 430 entries in Brazil, this one ranks 21. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

Rádio Band FM 96.1 FM has 22 recorded opens in the public directory, which is a real number by the standards of this data set. Most entries never reach double figures, so a count at this level means the stream has been found and played repeatedly by people using directory clients rather than the broadcaster's own site.

A pop station on a dial where pop is one of the commonest tags: 4 entries in Brazil lead with it. The tags are broadcaster-supplied throughout, so read the count as how Brazil's broadcasters describe themselves.

On the same tag worldwide it is 19 of 343, which is inside the top quarter of every pop station the directory carries.

Rádio Band FM 96.1 FM streams in FLV rather than the MP3 that most of Brazil's dial uses. Uncommon codecs are worth noticing for a practical reason as well as a nerdy one: browser support for them is thinner than for MP3 and AAC.

The stream address on this entry points at playerservices.streamtheworld.com, which is where 40 other stations in Brazil are served from as well. Platforms of that size carry the long tail of a country's dial, and they are the reason a listing can look broken when it is one host having a quiet hour.