P4 Norge (MP3 128k)

Out of 66 entries in Norway, this one ranks 5. 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.

Norwegian is the station's language and the country's commonest, one of four Norway's listing records.

P4 Norge (MP3 128k) streams at 128 kbps, under Norway's median of 159 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 p4.p4groupaudio.com. Two other stations in Norway stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.

The broadcaster publishes at p4.no, on Norway'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.