80's New Wave Radio

Out of 259 entries in Canada, this one ranks 11. 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.

The directory counts 33 opens against this stream. That is well above Canada's median and it is the reason the station sits where it does on the country list, since the ordering is the count and nothing else.

Among 259 stations in Canada here, this is the only one that puts 80's first. The 80's rail below therefore leaves the country entirely, which is the more interesting direction to travel from a page like this.

Across every country, 80's New Wave Radio is 3 of the 62 stations leading with 80's, by the same open count the country list uses.

At 192 kbps, 80's New Wave Radio streams at more than double Canada's median of 96 kbps. That is a deliberate choice by whoever runs it: bandwidth is the recurring cost of an internet station, and a rate this far above the local norm is money spent on sounding better than the dial around it.

The stream is served from puma.streemlion.com:2910, which no other entry in Canada 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.