Antenne Réunion Radio

In Réunion's ordering this is number 9 of 27, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

Antenne Réunion Radio streams at 64 kbps against Réunion's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 81% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

Where Réunion's stations mostly use MP3, this one uses AAC+. Worth a line only because it is a difference, and because the country page's format breakdown is one of the quicker ways to see which providers a national dial runs on.

Its audio comes straight from rtlre.ice.infomaniak.ch, an address unique to this entry in Réunion'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.

The station's site is at antennereunionradio.fr, which sits under the .fr country domain rather than Réunion's. That mismatch is usually mundane, a host or a parent organisation registered elsewhere, and it is the kind of small inconsistency worth seeing rather than smoothing over.