Magic Radio UK

Magic Radio UK ranks 14 among 466 stations in the United Kingdom. High enough that the country hub carries it in its own tables, and far enough from the head that the neighbours below are a genuinely different set of stations from the famous ones.

Magic Radio UK has 49 recorded opens in the public directory, which is a real number by the standards of this data set. Most entries never reach double figures, so a count at this level means the stream has been found and played repeatedly by people using directory clients rather than the broadcaster's own site.

00s covers 10 of the United Kingdom's entries. Tags on this site are always the broadcaster's own first tag and never a second one, because a station tagged five ways would otherwise appear on five shelves and turn each of them into a tag cloud.

On the same tag worldwide it is 2 of 52, which is inside the top quarter of every 00s station the directory carries.

Its audio comes from stream-mz.hellorayo.co.uk. Five 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 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.