Retro Hit Radio

This is one of the quieter entries in New Zealand's listing, at 55 of 67. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

The open count against Retro Hit 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.

Only two entries in New Zealand put 1980s first. The tag is self-declared and inconsistent between countries, which is why the rail below is worth more as a way of wandering than as a filter.

Retro Hit Radio streams at 80 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.

Its audio comes from riphel02.radioca.st. 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.