ZM Wellington (new)

This is one of the quieter entries in New Zealand's listing, at 57 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 ZM Wellington (new) 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.

At 64 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on New Zealand's dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

This one is HLS, a segmented format rather than a single continuous stream. It is worth knowing because the failure is specific and fixable rather than a dead station: the address works, the browser just cannot open that shape of address unaided.

11 of New Zealand's entries are served from playerservices.streamtheworld.com, this one among them. A shared host means a shared fate. If this stream is silent, the fastest check is not this station's own site but whether its neighbours on the same platform are playing.