M 80 Rádio

In Portugal's ordering this is number 61 of 105, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

Language and country do not match up the obvious way here. M 80 Rádio transmits from Portugal, where Portuguese leads the listing, and broadcasts in English, which 12 of the country's stations use.

Where else English is on air, according to the same snapshot: mostly United States, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom. The shelf lists all 5,984 of them together, which is the view a country hub cannot give.

M 80 Rádio is the only station in Portugal whose first tag is classic hits, 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 classic hits station.

20 of Portugal's entries are served from stream-icy.bauermedia.pt, this one among them. A shared host means a shared fate. If this stream is silent, the fastest check is not this station's own site but whether its neighbours on the same platform are playing.