Latviešu hiti

Latviešu hiti sits in the tail of Latvia's 28 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

No opens have been recorded against Latviešu hiti in the public directory. Plenty of working stations sit at zero, because the count only rises when somebody plays the stream from a client that reports back, and most listening never touches the directory at all.

Latviešu hiti streams at 96 kbps, under Latvia's median of 128 kbps. A lower rate is not automatically worse: speech carries perfectly well below the music threshold, and a station built for phones on a weak connection has a good reason to encode this way.

The stream is served from stream.ehrhiti.lv:8000, an address three other entries in Latvia use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.

The station's own site is ehr.fm. The .fm domain has nothing to do with FM radio or with where a station is: it belongs to the Federated States of Micronesia and has been sold to broadcasters worldwide for years, so read it as branding rather than as a location.