RDS Romantica

This is one of the quieter entries in Portugal's listing, at 100 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.

No opens have been recorded against RDS Romantica in the public directory. Plenty of working stations sit at zero, because the count only rises when somebody plays the stream from a client that reports back, and most listening never touches the directory at all.

At 320 kbps, RDS Romantica streams at more than double Portugal's median of 128 kbps. That is a deliberate choice by whoever runs it: bandwidth is the recurring cost of an internet station, and a rate this far above the local norm is money spent on sounding better than the dial around it.

The stream is served from s9.yesstreaming.net:9066, 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.

Their site is rds.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.