Tick Tock Radio - 1974

The directory holds 12 of these in the United Arab Emirates, identical in name but for the year. This page is the nineteen seventy-four 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 212 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.

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 broadcaster's own site is ticktock.radio, on the .radio domain. That one is genuinely restricted: it is administered for the broadcasting industry and applicants have to show they are a broadcaster, which makes it a stronger signal than most addresses on these pages.

Of everything the directory lists in United Arab Emirates, the entry this page reads closest to is Tick Tock Radio - 1998, so it is worth setting out what separates the two. The number each one is named for is the difference between them: nineteen seventy-four here and nineteen ninety-eight there. The broadcaster tagged this entry 1970s and 1974s, which the other entry is not tagged with. The other entry carries the 1990s tag and this one does not.