Radio

Out of 228 entries in Poland, this one ranks 51. 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.

Three stations in Poland lead with the tag classic rock, and Radio is one of them. That is a small enough group to hear end to end, and the tags are the broadcasters' own words rather than a classification imposed here.

Worldwide it ranks 23 among 140 classic rock entries, which is worth roughly as much as the count behind it and no more.

Radio streams at 64 kbps against Poland's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 81% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

Where Poland's stations mostly use MP3, this one uses AAC+. Worth a line only because it is a difference, and because the country page's format breakdown is one of the quicker ways to see which providers a national dial runs on.

The stream is served from rs202-krk-cyfronet.rmfstream.pl, an address three other entries in Poland use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.