Radio WoW

Rank 242 of 400 in Italy. What that mostly measures is how many people have already found the station through this directory, which is a poor proxy for anything else and an honest one to publish.

With two recorded opens, Radio WoW sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Italy's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

At 64 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on Italy's dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

Radio WoW streams in AAC+ while most of Italy's dial is MP3. Codec choice is mostly invisible to a listener, and it is one of the clearest fingerprints of which hosting provider a station uses, since providers default their customers into a format and few customers ever change it.

The audio comes from sphera.fluidstream.eu, and 9 other stations in Italy are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of Italy's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.