Sleep Radio

Out of 67 entries in New Zealand, this one ranks 12. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

Sleep Radio has no language recorded in the directory. We do not infer one. Guessing from the country would put every station in New Zealand on the same shelf regardless of what it broadcasts, which is exactly the kind of filled-in blank that makes a directory untrustworthy.

256 kbps against New Zealand's median of 128. Streams at this rate are the ones worth finding a good pair of headphones for, and they are uncommon: 68% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps at all.

The stream is served from cast4.my-control-panel.com, which no other entry in New Zealand uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.

The broadcaster publishes at sleepradio.co.nz, on New Zealand's own country domain. A national domain is a small piece of evidence that the station is what the directory says it is, since these are the harder ones to register from somewhere else.