Sub FM

Sub FM ranks 13 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.

Sub FM broadcasts in English, which is the language most of New Zealand's stations in the directory use. The country's listing records six languages in total, so the English stations are the body of the dial rather than the whole of it.

Nothing else in New Zealand's listing leads with deep house. The tag is self-declared, which makes it a statement of how the broadcaster positions itself rather than a classification anyone audited, and on this dial that statement is unique.

The encode is 192 kbps against a country median of 128. Comfortably above the middle of New Zealand's listing without being one of its outliers.

Its audio comes straight from fmsub.radioca.st, an address unique to this entry in New Zealand's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.

The station's own site is sub.fm. The .fm domain has nothing to do with FM radio or with where a station is: it belongs to the Federated States of Micronesia and has been sold to broadcasters worldwide for years, so read it as branding rather than as a location.