149FM

149FM sits at 100 of 216 in Romania's listing, in the body of the list rather than at either end. This is where most of a national dial actually lives, and it is the part a country hub's first fifty rows never reach.

The country's dial has two sizeable languages on it and this station is on the smaller one. 59 entries in Romania broadcast in English, against a listing whose commonest language is Romanian.

The English shelf on this site collects every station in the language regardless of where it transmits from, and the directory's English entries are concentrated in United States, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom. Reading the shelf next to this page is the quickest way to see how far the language's dial actually reaches.

At 192 kbps the stream is on the better side of Romania'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.

The stream address on this entry points at stream.zeno.fm, which is where 17 other stations in Romania are served from as well. Platforms of that size carry the long tail of a country's dial, and they are the reason a listing can look broken when it is one host having a quiet hour.