Food and Lounge

The country's dial has two sizeable languages on it and this station is on the smaller one. 89 entries in the Netherlands broadcast in English, against a listing whose commonest language is Dutch.

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.

Food and Lounge is the only station in the Netherlands whose first tag is bossanova, out of 302 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in the Netherlands does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only bossanova station.

Food and Lounge streams at 128 kbps, under the Netherlands' median of 192 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.

Food and Lounge publishes at laut.fm. Worth a note because .fm is a country domain that stopped meaning its country a long time ago: it is Micronesia's, and it is used by radio stations everywhere for the obvious reason.