RFM Dance IT

RFM Dance IT is deep in Portugal's listing, at 79 of 105. Down here the ordering barely orders anything: the difference between one position and the next is often a single recorded open, so treat the neighbours below as a shelf rather than as a ranking.

With one recorded open, RFM Dance IT sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Portugal's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

5 stations in Portugal lead with dance and RFM Dance IT is one of them, though the tag does not make the country's headline list. Across the whole directory 270 stations use it first, so the rail below runs well past Portugal.

The gap here is large: 64 kbps where Portugal's stations typically run 128. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

Its audio comes straight from 25453.live.streamtheworld.com, 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.