Veronica Rock Radio

In the Netherlands' listing Veronica Rock Radio lands at 38 of 302, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

Broadcasting in English from the Netherlands, alongside 88 other stations there doing the same. Dutch is the country's commonest broadcast language in this directory, so this is the second shelf of a bilingual listing.

The shelf for the language holds 5,984 stations, led by United States. A station like this one broadcasting from the Netherlands is what stops that shelf from being a second copy of one country's hub.

The rock corner of the Netherlands' dial is three stations deep in this snapshot. Small clusters like that are usually the most rewarding thing on a country page, because they are what the national broadcasters at the top of the list are not.

On the same tag worldwide it is 9 of 148, which is inside the top quarter of every rock station the directory carries.

At 64 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.

The format here is AAC+, against a listing for the Netherlands overwhelmingly made of MP3. Both play in a browser; the difference shows up in how much quality survives at a given bitrate, where AAC has the advantage at lower rates.