The Finest Amsterdam

The Finest Amsterdam is deep in the Netherlands' listing, at 210 of 302. Down here the ordering barely orders anything: the difference between one position and the next is often a single recorded open, so treat the neighbours below as a shelf rather than as a ranking.

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.

Where else English is on air, according to the same snapshot: mostly United States, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom. The shelf lists all 5,984 of them together, which is the view a country hub cannot give.

The Finest Amsterdam is the only station in the Netherlands whose first tag is boogie, 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 boogie station.

At 256 kbps the stream is on the better side of the Netherlands' dial, where the median is 192 kbps. Not dramatically so, and bitrate is only one of several things that decide whether a stream sounds good, but it is the one the directory records.