Radio Motel

Out of 430 entries in Brazil, this one ranks 58. 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.

No language is recorded against this station. The field is optional in the public directory and a great many entries skip it, so an empty language says nothing about what you will hear when you press play. It does keep the station off the language shelves, since a shelf built on guesses would be worse than a shelf with holes.

The classical corner of Brazil's dial is three 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.

Worldwide it ranks 58 among 242 classical entries, which is worth roughly as much as the count behind it and no more.

The stream runs at 128 kbps, level with Brazil's median. Bitrate stops being interesting once a station is at the local norm, and the useful question moves on to whether the stream stays up, which no snapshot can answer.

Radio Motel streams from usa11.fastcast4u.com. No other station in Brazil is served from that address, and across the whole directory it appears four times in total.