East Coast Radio

Out of 100 entries in South Africa, this one ranks 14. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

No language is recorded against this station. The field is optional in the public directory and a great many entries skip it, so an empty language says nothing about what you will hear when you press play. It does keep the station off the language shelves, since a shelf built on guesses would be worse than a shelf with holes.

East Coast Radio streams at 128 kbps, which is exactly where South Africa's dial sits: the country's median is 128 kbps. Being unremarkable on this axis is the normal case and it is fine. 47% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better.

East Coast Radio streams from live.ecr.co.za. No other station in South Africa is served from that address, and across the whole directory it appears one time in total.

The broadcaster publishes at ecr.co.za, on South Africa's own country domain. A national domain is a small piece of evidence that the station is what the directory says it is, since these are the harder ones to register from somewhere else.