GDS.FM

GDS.FM sits in the tail of Switzerland's 126 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

No opens have been recorded against GDS.FM in the public directory. Plenty of working stations sit at zero, because the count only rises when somebody plays the stream from a client that reports back, and most listening never touches the directory at all.

The alternative corner of Switzerland's dial is three stations deep in this snapshot. Small clusters like that are usually the most rewarding thing on a country page, because they are what the national broadcasters at the top of the list are not.

320 kbps against Switzerland's median of 128. Streams at this rate are the ones worth finding a good pair of headphones for, and they are uncommon: 63% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps at all.

The station's own site is gds.fm. The .fm domain has nothing to do with FM radio or with where a station is: it belongs to the Federated States of Micronesia and has been sold to broadcasters worldwide for years, so read it as branding rather than as a location.