Edge 2

The directory lists two streams in the United Kingdom under this name, told apart by a number alone. This page is number two. Nothing here is taken from the other one.

At position 316 of 466, this is one of the stations in the United Kingdom 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.

Only three entries in the United Kingdom put classic hits first. The tag is self-declared and inconsistent between countries, which is why the rail below is worth more as a way of wandering than as a filter.

320 kbps against the United Kingdom's median of 128. Streams at this rate are the ones worth finding a good pair of headphones for, and they are uncommon: 69% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps at all.

Its audio comes from stream-15.aiir.com. One other station in the United Kingdom streams from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.

The station's site is at edgeradio.co.uk, which sits under the .uk country domain rather than the United Kingdom's. That mismatch is usually mundane, a host or a parent organisation registered elsewhere, and it is the kind of small inconsistency worth seeing rather than smoothing over.

Of everything the directory lists in United Kingdom, the entry this page reads closest to is Edge 3, so it is worth setting out what separates the two. The number each one is named for is the difference between them: two here and three there. The broadcaster tagged this entry classic hits and oldies, which the other entry is not tagged with. The other entry carries the country tag and this one does not.