Batida FM

At position 85 of 105, this is one of the stations in Portugal 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 Batida FM 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.

Nothing else in Portugal's listing leads with afro-house. The tag is self-declared, which makes it a statement of how the broadcaster positions itself rather than a classification anyone audited, and on this dial that statement is unique.

Its audio comes straight from stream-icy.rayo.pt, an address unique to this entry in Portugal'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.

Batida FM publishes at batida.fm. Worth a note because .fm is a country domain that stopped meaning its country a long time ago: it is Micronesia's, and it is used by radio stations everywhere for the obvious reason.