Energy 106 Belfast Northern Ireland

Energy 106 Belfast Northern Ireland is at position 18 of the 75 stations in Ireland with pages here, inside the top quarter of the national listing. That is high enough to be reached by browsing rather than by searching, which is how most of these pages are actually found.

Nothing else in Ireland's listing leads with electronic dance music. 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.

320 kbps against Ireland's median of 128. Streams at this rate are the ones worth finding a good pair of headphones for, and they are uncommon: 68% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps at all.

The stream is served from stream1.hippynet.co.uk:8189, which no other entry in Ireland uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.

The station's site is at energy106.co.uk, which sits under the .uk country domain rather than Ireland's. That mismatch is usually mundane, a host or a parent organisation registered elsewhere, and it is the kind of small inconsistency worth seeing rather than smoothing over.