Gongas Radio

Out of 105 entries in Portugal, this one ranks 25. 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.

Portugal carries 12 English stations in the directory against a Portuguese majority. Gongas Radio is one of them, and the pairing of language and country is the fact that distinguishes it from the rest of the national list.

The shelf for the language holds 5,984 stations, led by United States. A station like this one broadcasting from Portugal is what stops that shelf from being a second copy of one country's hub.

Gongas Radio is the only station in Portugal whose first tag is 1980s, out of 105 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in Portugal does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only 1980s station.

The encode is 192 kbps against a country median of 128. Comfortably above the middle of Portugal's listing without being one of its outliers.

The stream is served from a6.asurahosting.com:7930, which no other entry in Portugal uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.