Rock Fm Blues

Rock Fm Blues 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 Rock Fm Blues 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 80 kbps, this sits below most of Romania's listing, whose median is 128 kbps. 83% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better, so the dial around it is mostly higher.

Where Romania'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 from live.rockfm.ro. Three other stations in Romania stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.