Bolton FM

Bolton FM is at 129 in a listing of 466. Read the rank as a rough position rather than a standing: the click counts in the middle of a long national list are close enough together that a handful of opens moves a station several places.

The station's language is English, the commonest of the six the directory records for the United Kingdom. Language is one of the two axes this site indexes on, and the English shelf collects these stations across every country that carries them.

Among 466 stations in the United Kingdom here, this is the only one that puts community first. The community rail below therefore leaves the country entirely, which is the more interesting direction to travel from a page like this.

Bolton FM streams at 128 kbps, which is exactly where the United Kingdom's dial sits: the country's median is 128 kbps. Being unremarkable on this axis is the normal case and it is fine. 69% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better.

Its audio comes straight from radio.canstream.co.uk:8083, an address unique to this entry in the United Kingdom'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.