hr4 Nordhessen

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

hr4 Nordhessen is at 438 in a listing of 1,409. Read the rank as a rough position rather than a standing: the click counts in the middle of a long national list are close enough together that a handful of opens moves a station several places.

The country page counts oldies among its commonest tags, and this station is one of the 16 entries in Germany behind that count. Worldwide the tag leads 75 stations, which makes the rail below a very wide shelf.

On the same tag worldwide it is 19 of 75, which is inside the top quarter of every oldies station the directory carries.

The stream address on this entry points at dispatcher.rndfnk.com, which is where 27 other stations in Germany are served from as well. Platforms of that size carry the long tail of a country's dial, and they are the reason a listing can look broken when it is one host having a quiet hour.

Their site is hr4.de, a domain registered in Germany. Where a station's own address and its listed country agree, the entry is a little more trustworthy than one where they do not.