538 Hitzone

538 Hitzone ranks 50 among 302 stations in the Netherlands. High enough that the country hub carries it in its own tables, and far enough from the head that the neighbours below are a genuinely different set of stations from the famous ones.

The directory records no language for 538 Hitzone. That gap is common and it is upstream of this site: broadcasters fill the field or they do not, and roughly a third of the stations with pages here have left it empty. It means the station appears on its country hub and not on any language shelf, which is the one place the omission costs it.

538 Hitzone shares its leading tag, hits, with one other Netherlands entry. Across every country the directory has 114 stations leading with it, so the rail below is mostly a trip abroad.

Worldwide it ranks 15 among 114 hits entries, which is worth roughly as much as the count behind it and no more.

At 128 kbps, this sits below most of the Netherlands' listing, whose median is 192 kbps. 77% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better, so the dial around it is mostly higher.

The stream address on this entry points at playerservices.streamtheworld.com, which is where 32 other stations in the Netherlands are served from as well. Platforms of that size carry the long tail of a country's dial, and they are the reason a listing can look broken when it is one host having a quiet hour.