Life FM - MP3

Life FM - MP3 is at 36 in a listing of 67. Read the rank as a rough position rather than a standing: the click counts in the middle of a long national list are close enough together that a handful of opens moves a station several places.

The open count against Life FM - MP3 is two, 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.

The christian corner of New Zealand's 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.

Life FM - MP3 streams at 96 kbps, under New Zealand's median of 128 kbps. A lower rate is not automatically worse: speech carries perfectly well below the music threshold, and a station built for phones on a weak connection has a good reason to encode this way.

The stream is served from rhema-radio.streamguys1.com, an address one other entry in New Zealand uses as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.