The Platform Kiwi

At position 67 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.

No opens have been recorded against The Platform Kiwi in the public directory. Plenty of working stations sit at zero, because the count only rises when somebody plays the stream from a client that reports back, and most listening never touches the directory at all.

The Platform Kiwi is the only station in New Zealand whose first tag is talk radio, out of 67 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in New Zealand does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only talk radio station.

The stream is 96 kbps where New Zealand's median is 128. Below the country's middle, which usually points at an older encoder or a deliberate choice to stay light, and matters far more for music than for talk.

The Platform Kiwi streams from streaming.shoutcast.com. No other station in New Zealand is served from that address, and across the whole directory it appears 12 times in total.