0 N - New Wave on Radio

The directory lists two streams in Germany under this name, told apart by a number alone. This page is number zero. Nothing here is taken from the other one.

In Germany's ordering this is number 478 of 1,409, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

The station's leading tag is 80s, shared with 12 other entries in Germany. It is a well populated tag here without being one of the country's defining ones, which is a common and unremarkable place for a station to sit.

The gap here is large: 64 kbps where Germany's stations typically run 128. 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.

Where Germany's stations mostly use MP3, this one uses AAC+. Worth a line only because it is a difference, and because the country page's format breakdown is one of the quicker ways to see which providers a national dial runs on.

The stream is served from 0n-newwave.radionetz.de, an address one other entry in Germany uses as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.