radiOFF

At position 225 of 228, this is one of the stations in Poland 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.

radiOFF has a zero in the directory's open count. It is the least interesting number on this page and the one most likely to be misread, so it is worth being plain: it measures traffic through radio-browser, not audience.

Poland carries four German stations in the directory against a Polish majority. radiOFF is one of them, and the pairing of language and country is the fact that distinguishes it from the rest of the national list.

Where else German is on air, according to the same snapshot: mostly Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The shelf lists all 2,099 of them together, which is the view a country hub cannot give.

radiOFF shares its leading tag, ambient, with two other Poland entries. Across every country the directory has 171 stations leading with it, so the rail below is mostly a trip abroad.

Its audio comes straight from stream.radioff.com, an address unique to this entry in Poland'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.