Tick Tock Radio - 1969

The directory holds 12 of these in the United Arab Emirates, identical in name but for the year. This page is the nineteen sixty-nine stream. The year is the whole of what separates it from the other 11, so it is worth reading rather than skimming past as a serial number.

At position 323 of 328, this is one of the stations in the United Arab Emirates that almost nobody arrives at by browsing. That is the case for having a page at all. A station reachable only by knowing its name is a station most directories lose.

Tick Tock Radio - 1969 has a zero in the directory's open count. It is the least interesting number on this page and the one most likely to be misread, so it is worth being plain: it measures traffic through radio-browser, not audience.

The audio comes from streaming.ticktock.radio, and 11 other stations in the United Arab Emirates are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of the United Arab Emirates' listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.

The nearest thing to this entry in United Arab Emirates is Tick Tock Radio - 1974. They are not the same station, and these are the facts the catalogue holds that tell them apart. The number each one is named for is the difference between them: nineteen sixty-nine here and nineteen seventy-four there. The broadcaster tagged this entry 1960s and 1969s, which the other entry is not tagged with. The other entry carries the 1970s and 1974s tags and this one does not.