Edge 3

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

At position 317 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.

Two stations in the United Kingdom lead with the tag country, and Edge 3 is one of them. That is a small enough group to hear end to end, and the tags are the broadcasters' own words rather than a classification imposed here.

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.

The stream is served from stream-15.aiir.com, an address one other entry in the United Kingdom uses as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.

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 2, so it is worth setting out what separates the two. The number each one is named for is the difference between them: three here and two there. The broadcaster tagged this entry country, which the other entry is not tagged with. The other entry carries the classic hits and oldies tags and this one does not.