Kiss FM Eurovision

Kiss FM Eurovision sits in the tail of Estonia's 34 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

Language and country do not match up the obvious way here. Kiss FM Eurovision transmits from Estonia, where Estonian leads the listing, and broadcasts in English, which 12 of the country's stations use.

Where else English is on air, according to the same snapshot: mostly United States, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom. The shelf lists all 5,984 of them together, which is the view a country hub cannot give.

Dance is one of Estonia's headline genres in this directory, and Kiss FM Eurovision is one of 5 stations there leading with it. The country hub prints the same tag near the top of its own list, so this station sits inside the country's main sound rather than off to one side.

The gap here is large: 88 kbps where Estonia's stations typically run 256. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.