Greatest Hits Radio 80s

Greatest Hits Radio 80s belongs to a run of three entries in the United Kingdom that share a name and differ by decade. This one takes the eighties, and that is the fact to hold on to when the listing shows you several of them in a row.

Out of 466 entries in the United Kingdom, this one ranks 102. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

The gap here is large: 48 kbps where the United Kingdom's stations typically run 128. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

The stream is served from stream-al.hellorayo.co.uk, an address five other entries in the United Kingdom use 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 hellorayo.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.