Christmas FM Classical & Carols

Out of 75 entries in Ireland, this one ranks 13. 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.

English is the station's language and the country's commonest, one of three Ireland's listing records.

Nothing else in Ireland's listing leads with carols. The tag is self-declared, which makes it a statement of how the broadcaster positions itself rather than a classification anyone audited, and on this dial that statement is unique.

The gap here is large: 64 kbps where Ireland's stations typically run 128. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

AAC here, on a dial that carries three different formats. A mixed codec listing usually means a country whose stations are hosted in several different places rather than through one dominant provider.

The stream is served from christmasfm.cdnstream1.com, an address four other entries in Ireland use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.