Newstalk

Newstalk heads Ireland's listing here, ahead of 74 other stations from the country. The ordering is the directory's own record of how often each stream is opened, so this is a popularity signal rather than an editorial one, and it is the signal the country hub is built on.

Newstalk has 45 recorded opens in the public directory, which is a real number by the standards of this data set. Most entries never reach double figures, so a count at this level means the stream has been found and played repeatedly by people using directory clients rather than the broadcaster's own site.

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 128 kbps this is a typical stream for Ireland by the one measure the directory carries.

The stream is served from edge.audioxi.com, an address one other entry in Ireland uses as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.