Mix Radio Gran Canaria

Mix Radio Gran Canaria is at 215 in a listing of 487. Read the rank as a rough position rather than a standing: the click counts in the middle of a long national list are close enough together that a handful of opens moves a station several places.

Language and country do not match up the obvious way here. Mix Radio Gran Canaria transmits from Spain, where Spanish leads the listing, and broadcasts in German, which ten of the country's stations use.

The shelf for the language holds 2,099 stations, led by Germany. A station like this one broadcasting from Spain is what stops that shelf from being a second copy of one country's hub.

Its audio comes straight from mixfm.radionetz.de, an address unique to this entry in Spain's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.

The station's site is at mixradio.eu, which sits under the .eu country domain rather than Spain's. That mismatch is usually mundane, a host or a parent organisation registered elsewhere, and it is the kind of small inconsistency worth seeing rather than smoothing over.