Oxygen Oldies

Position 52 of 118 puts this station in the middle of Hungary's directory presence. The middle is worth browsing precisely because the ordering has stopped sorting by fame and has not yet stopped sorting at all.

The open count against Oxygen Oldies is four, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

Two stations in Hungary lead with the tag classic hits, and Oxygen Oldies is one of them. That is a small enough group to hear end to end, and the tags are the broadcasters' own words rather than a classification imposed here.

320 kbps against Hungary's median of 160. Streams at this rate are the ones worth finding a good pair of headphones for, and they are uncommon: 82% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps at all.

The stream address on this entry points at oxygenmusic.hu:8443, which is where 13 other stations in Hungary 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.