Rádio Sity

Rádio Sity sits at 12 of 42 in Slovakia'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.

Among 42 stations in Slovakia here, this is the only one that puts dance first. The dance rail below therefore leaves the country entirely, which is the more interesting direction to travel from a page like this.

Rádio Sity streams at 64 kbps against Slovakia's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 92% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

The format here is AAC, against a listing for Slovakia overwhelmingly made of MP3. Both play in a browser; the difference shows up in how much quality survives at a given bitrate, where AAC has the advantage at lower rates.

The stream is served from radiosity.online:8000, which no other entry in Slovakia uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.