M80 Rádio - Ballads

Position 10 of 105 in Portugal. The ordering is a click count and nothing more, but at this depth it still separates stations meaningfully, which stops being true further down the same list.

5 stations in Portugal lead with 70s and M80 Rádio - Ballads is one of them, though the tag does not make the country's headline list. Across the whole directory 62 stations use it first, so the rail below runs well past Portugal.

On the same tag worldwide it is 14 of 62, which is inside the top quarter of every 70s station the directory carries.

Encoded as AAC, one of the three formats Portugal's stations use. The country page breaks all of them out with counts.

The audio comes from stream-icy.bauermedia.pt, and 19 other stations in Portugal are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of Portugal's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.

Their site is m80.iol.pt, a domain registered in Portugal. Where a station's own address and its listed country agree, the entry is a little more trustworthy than one where they do not.