Radio Maria Portugal

This is one of the quieter entries in Portugal's listing, at 94 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.

Radio Maria Portugal has a zero in the directory's open count. It is the least interesting number on this page and the one most likely to be misread, so it is worth being plain: it measures traffic through radio-browser, not audience.

Radio Maria Portugal is the only station in Portugal whose first tag is catholic, 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 catholic station.

At 64 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on Portugal's dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

The stream is served from dreamsiteradiocp5.com, 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.