iRadio

Position 25 of 75 puts this station in the middle of Ireland'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 iRadio 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.

Top 40 is the station's own leading tag and no other entry in Ireland uses it that way. Worth reading as self-description: the directory takes tags as broadcasters type them and does not reconcile them.

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.

Encoded as AAC, one of the three formats Ireland's stations use. The country page breaks all of them out with counts.

Its audio comes from live-bauerie.sharp-stream.com. Six other stations in Ireland stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.