Palanga Street Radio

In Lithuania's ordering this is number 16 of 38, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

Lithuania carries five English stations in the directory against a Lithuanian majority. Palanga Street 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.

English radio in this directory sits largely in United States, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom, with 5,984 stations on the shelf in total. This page's station is one of the entries that make the shelf wider than any single country.

Nothing else in Lithuania's listing leads with eclectic. 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.

Palanga Street Radio streams at 128 kbps, under Lithuania's median of 160 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.