HiT 88.9

Out of 320 entries in Greece, this one ranks 70. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

A mainstream station on a dial where mainstream is one of the commonest tags: 7 entries in Greece lead with it. The tags are broadcaster-supplied throughout, so read the count as how Greece's broadcasters describe themselves.

The directory carries no bitrate for HiT 88.9. 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. Greece's stations that do report come in at a median of 128 kbps, for whatever that is worth as a guess.

The format here is AAC, against a listing for Greece overwhelmingly made of MP3. Both play in a browser; the difference shows up in how much quality survives at a given bitrate, where AAC has the advantage at lower rates.

Its audio comes straight from n10a-eu.rcs.revma.com, an address unique to this entry in Greece's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.