Coast FM

Coast FM ranks 10 among 67 stations in New Zealand. High enough that the country hub carries it in its own tables, and far enough from the head that the neighbours below are a genuinely different set of stations from the famous ones.

Coast FM shares its leading tag, 80's, with one other New Zealand entry. Across every country the directory has 62 stations leading with it, so the rail below is mostly a trip abroad.

The gap here is large: 64 kbps where New Zealand's stations typically run 128. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

This one is HLS, a segmented format rather than a single continuous stream. It is worth knowing because the failure is specific and fixable rather than a dead station: the address works, the browser just cannot open that shape of address unaided.

11 of New Zealand's entries are served from playerservices.streamtheworld.com, 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.