NPO Radio 1

NPO Radio 1 is one of nine entries in the Netherlands whose names are the same but for a number, and this one's number is one. A broadcaster numbering its streams like that is separating feeds, not stations, so read the number as the part that matters.

NPO Radio 1 has 26 recorded opens in the public directory, which is a real number by the standards of this data set. Most entries never reach double figures, so a count at this level means the stream has been found and played repeatedly by people using directory clients rather than the broadcaster's own site.

NPO Radio 1 is the only station in the Netherlands whose first tag is international news, 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 international news station.

At 32 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on the Netherlands' dial, whose median is 192 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

16 of the Netherlands' entries are served from icecast.omroep.nl, this one among them. A shared host means a shared fate. If this stream is silent, the fastest check is not this station's own site but whether its neighbours on the same platform are playing.