Smooth Jazz 111

This is one of the quieter entries in Greece's listing, at 299 of 320. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

No opens have been recorded against Smooth Jazz 111 in the public directory. Plenty of working stations sit at zero, because the count only rises when somebody plays the stream from a client that reports back, and most listening never touches the directory at all.

No language is recorded against this station. The field is optional in the public directory and a great many entries skip it, so an empty language says nothing about what you will hear when you press play. It does keep the station off the language shelves, since a shelf built on guesses would be worse than a shelf with holes.

At 320 kbps, Smooth Jazz 111 streams at more than double Greece's median of 128 kbps. That is a deliberate choice by whoever runs it: bandwidth is the recurring cost of an internet station, and a rate this far above the local norm is money spent on sounding better than the dial around it.

The stream is served from cast.magicstreams.gr, an address three other entries in Greece use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.