Canal Sur Radio Sevilla

In Spain's ordering this is number 187 of 487, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

With three recorded opens, Canal Sur Radio Sevilla sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Spain's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

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.

At 320 kbps, Canal Sur Radio Sevilla streams at more than double Spain's median of 128 kbps. That is a deliberate choice by whoever runs it: bandwidth is the recurring cost of an internet station, and a rate this far above the local norm is money spent on sounding better than the dial around it.

The stream is served from rtva-live-radio.flumotion.com, an address six other entries in Spain use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.