Rádio Freguesia de Belém

Rádio Freguesia de Belém sits in the tail of Portugal's 105 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

The directory records no opens at all for Rádio Freguesia de Belém. That is a fact about the directory rather than about the station: a stream nobody has opened through radio-browser can be perfectly healthy and well listened to on its own site or on a radio. It does mean this page is where the station's directory history starts.

Among 105 stations in Portugal here, this is the only one that puts local news first. The local news rail below therefore leaves the country entirely, which is the more interesting direction to travel from a page like this.

At 192 kbps the stream is on the better side of Portugal's dial, where the median is 128 kbps. Not dramatically so, and bitrate is only one of several things that decide whether a stream sounds good, but it is the one the directory records.

Its audio comes straight from s2.radio.co, 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.