Spoon Radio - Rock Ballads

This is one of the quieter entries in Switzerland's listing, at 111 of 126. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

The open count against Spoon Radio - Rock Ballads is one, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

Ballads is the station's own leading tag and no other entry in Switzerland uses it that way. Worth reading as self-description: the directory takes tags as broadcasters type them and does not reconcile them.

Spoon Radio - Rock Ballads streams in AAC+ while most of Switzerland's dial is MP3. Codec choice is mostly invisible to a listener, and it is one of the clearest fingerprints of which hosting provider a station uses, since providers default their customers into a format and few customers ever change it.

Its audio comes straight from spoonradiorockballads.ice.infomaniak.ch, an address unique to this entry in Switzerland'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.