Nordic Chillout Radio

Nordic Chillout Radio is the most opened of the 28 stations in Latvia listed here, which is why it is the station the country page offers first. The rest of that page is the ordering below it.

Language and country do not match up the obvious way here. Nordic Chillout Radio transmits from Latvia, where Latvian leads the listing, and broadcasts in English, which five of the country's stations use.

Where else English is on air, according to the same snapshot: mostly United States, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom. The shelf lists all 5,984 of them together, which is the view a country hub cannot give.

Among 28 stations in Latvia here, this is the only one that puts chillout first. The chillout rail below therefore leaves the country entirely, which is the more interesting direction to travel from a page like this.

Worldwide it ranks 10 among 66 chillout entries, which is worth roughly as much as the count behind it and no more.

Nordic Chillout Radio streams at 64 kbps against Latvia's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 64% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.