Heart 80s

This is the stream named for the eighties, one of five the directory lists in the United Kingdom under a single name where each entry takes a decade. The decade is the difference between them and there is no other.

In the United Kingdom's ordering, Heart 80s is at position 2 of 466. The stations above and below it are the ones the country hub prints first, so this page and that one describe nearly the same handful of streams from two directions.

The open count here is 296, a figure only a few hundred stations in the whole directory reach. It is a fair signal that the stream is reliable as well as popular, because a dead stream stops accumulating opens quickly once clients start failing on it.

The stream address on this entry points at media-ssl.musicradio.com, which is where 26 other stations in the United Kingdom are served from as well. Platforms of that size carry the long tail of a country's dial, and they are the reason a listing can look broken when it is one host having a quiet hour.

The station's site is at heart.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.