Groove FM

Groove FM ranks 9 among 70 stations in Finland. High enough that the country hub carries it in its own tables, and far enough from the head that the neighbours below are a genuinely different set of stations from the famous ones.

Nothing else in Finland's listing leads with blues. The tag is self-declared, which makes it a statement of how the broadcaster positions itself rather than a classification anyone audited, and on this dial that statement is unique.

Worldwide it ranks 5 among 78 blues entries, which is worth roughly as much as the count behind it and no more.

The stream is encoded at 262 kbps, more than twice the 128 kbps median for Finland. Bitrate is the one quality figure the public directory carries, and on this entry it is unambiguous.

This one is HLS, a segmented format rather than a single continuous stream. It is worth knowing because the failure is specific and fixable rather than a dead station: the address works, the browser just cannot open that shape of address unaided.

The stream is served from aud-stream-groove.nm-elemental.nelonenmedia.fi, which no other entry in Finland 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.