TOP radio

Position 9 of 28 puts this station in the middle of Latvia'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.

Latvia carries five English stations in the directory against a Latvian majority. TOP radio is one of them, and the pairing of language and country is the fact that distinguishes it from the rest of the national list.

The English shelf on this site collects every station in the language regardless of where it transmits from, and the directory's English entries are concentrated in United States, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom. Reading the shelf next to this page is the quickest way to see how far the language's dial actually reaches.

Nothing else in Latvia's listing leads with pop music. The tag is self-declared, which makes it a statement of how the broadcaster positions itself rather than a classification anyone audited, and on this dial that statement is unique.

Its audio comes straight from topradio.live.advailo.com, an address unique to this entry in Latvia's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.