RADIO BOB Rock 70S

This is the stream named for the seventies, one of two the directory lists in Germany under a single name where each entry takes a decade. The decade is the difference between them and there is no other.

RADIO BOB Rock 70S sits in the tail of Germany's 1,409 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.

A rock station on a dial where rock is one of the commonest tags: 31 entries in Germany lead with it. The tags are broadcaster-supplied throughout, so read the count as how Germany's broadcasters describe themselves.

The directory carries no bitrate for RADIO BOB Rock 70S. The field is filled from what the stream's own server reports when it is scanned, so an empty one usually means a server that answers without announcing itself rather than a bad stream. Germany's stations that do report come in at a median of 128 kbps, for whatever that is worth as a guess.

The audio comes from streams.radiobob.de, and 44 other stations in Germany are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of Germany's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.