Hot Radio

Hot Radio is deep in the United Kingdom's listing, at 384 of 466. Down here the ordering barely orders anything: the difference between one position and the next is often a single recorded open, so treat the neighbours below as a shelf rather than as a ranking.

With one recorded open, Hot Radio sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in the United Kingdom's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

At 160 kbps the stream is on the better side of the United Kingdom's dial, where the median is 128 kbps. Not dramatically so, and bitrate is only one of several things that decide whether a stream sounds good, but it is the one the directory records.

Its audio comes from stream1.hippynet.co.uk. Two other stations in the United Kingdom stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.

The broadcaster's own site is hot.radio, on the .radio domain. That one is genuinely restricted: it is administered for the broadcasting industry and applicants have to show they are a broadcaster, which makes it a stronger signal than most addresses on these pages.