Radio Essex

Out of 466 entries in the United Kingdom, this one ranks 58. 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.

Radio Essex broadcasts in English, which is the language most of the United Kingdom's stations in the directory use. The country's listing records six languages in total, so the English stations are the body of the dial rather than the whole of it.

Radio Essex is the only station in the United Kingdom whose first tag is contemporary hits radio, out of 466 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in the United Kingdom does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only contemporary hits radio station.

Twice the local median and then some: 256 kbps where the United Kingdom's stations typically manage 128. Whether you can hear the difference depends entirely on what you are listening on, but the headroom is there.

The stream is served from stream.aiir.com, an address three 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.