Rock Fm Hard Rock

Position 28 of 216 in Romania. The ordering is a click count and nothing more, but at this depth it still separates stations meaningfully, which stops being true further down the same list.

The classic rock corner of Romania's dial is two stations deep in this snapshot. Small clusters like that are usually the most rewarding thing on a country page, because they are what the national broadcasters at the top of the list are not.

Across every country, Rock Fm Hard Rock is 31 of the 140 stations leading with classic rock, by the same open count the country list uses.

Rock Fm Hard Rock streams at 80 kbps, under Romania's median of 128 kbps. A lower rate is not automatically worse: speech carries perfectly well below the music threshold, and a station built for phones on a weak connection has a good reason to encode this way.

Rock Fm Hard Rock 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.

The stream is served from live.rockfm.ro, an address three other entries in Romania use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.