Radio Zürisee

Out of 126 entries in Switzerland, this one ranks 13. 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.

The classic hits corner of Switzerland's dial is two 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.

Across every country, Radio Zürisee is 9 of the 61 stations leading with classic hits, by the same open count the country list uses.

At 256 kbps, Radio Zürisee streams at more than double Switzerland'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 mp3.radio.ch, which no other entry in Switzerland 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.