Rádio Festival Madeira (98.4 FM)

This is one of the quieter entries in Portugal's listing, at 68 of 105. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

The open count against Rádio Festival Madeira (98.4 FM) is one, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

The pop corner of Portugal's dial is three stations deep in this snapshot. Small clusters like that are usually the most rewarding thing on a country page, because they are what the national broadcasters at the top of the list are not.

192 kbps, which puts Rádio Festival Madeira (98.4 FM) above the 128 kbps that a typical entry in Portugal runs at.

The stream is served from audio.serv.pt, an address one other entry in Portugal uses as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.

Rádio Festival Madeira (98.4 FM) keeps its own site at rfestival.pt. The address sits under Portugal's country code, which lines up with where the directory says the station broadcasts from.