Pure Radio Holland - Hardcore Channel

At position 193 of 302, this is one of the stations in the Netherlands that almost nobody arrives at by browsing. That is the case for having a page at all. A station reachable only by knowing its name is a station most directories lose.

Pure Radio Holland - Hardcore Channel streams at 256 kbps, above the Netherlands' median of 192 kbps. It sits with the 77% of the country's stations that reach 128 kbps or better, which is the line this site uses for a stream worth listening to properly rather than in the background.

Pure Radio Holland - Hardcore Channel streams in AAC while most of the Netherlands' dial is MP3. Codec choice is mostly invisible to a listener, and it is one of the clearest fingerprints of which hosting provider a station uses, since providers default their customers into a format and few customers ever change it.

The stream is served from streamserver.pure-isp.eu, which no other entry in the Netherlands uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.

Pure Radio Holland - Hardcore Channel publishes at pureradio.eu. The domain's country code is not the country the directory files the station under, which happens often enough with hosted stations and diaspora broadcasters to be unremarkable, and is still a difference this page will point out rather than hide.