RockFM

Position 13 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.

Nothing else in Romania's listing leads with rock. The tag is self-declared, which makes it a statement of how the broadcaster positions itself rather than a classification anyone audited, and on this dial that statement is unique.

Worldwide it ranks 8 among 148 rock entries, which is worth roughly as much as the count behind it and no more.

RockFM 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.

RockFM 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.

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.