3ABN Christian Radio

3ABN Christian Radio sits in the tail of New Zealand's 67 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

The open count against 3ABN Christian Radio is one, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

Nothing else in New Zealand's listing leads with bible teaching. The tag is self-declared, which makes it a statement of how the broadcaster positions itself rather than a classification anyone audited, and on this dial that statement is unique.

3ABN Christian Radio streams at 56 kbps against New Zealand's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 68% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

3ABN Christian Radio streams from stream.3abnaustralia.org.au:8443. No other station in New Zealand is served from that address, and across the whole directory it appears one time in total.