Radio LTU

Radio LTU sits in the tail of Romania's 216 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

No opens have been recorded against Radio LTU 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 50 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on Romania's dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

Radio LTU streams in AAC while most of Romania's dial is MP3. Codec choice is mostly invisible to a listener, and it is one of the clearest fingerprints of which hosting provider a station uses, since providers default their customers into a format and few customers ever change it.

Radio LTU streams from panel.radiocast.net. No other station in Romania is served from that address, and across the whole directory it appears one time in total.