Radio Robotic

At position 54 of 67, this is one of the stations in New Zealand that almost nobody arrives at by browsing. That is the case for having a page at all. A station reachable only by knowing its name is a station most directories lose.

The open count against Radio Robotic 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.

The alternative 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.

At 160 kbps the stream is on the better side of New Zealand's dial, where the median is 128 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.

Its audio comes from stream.zeno.fm. One other station in New Zealand streams from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.