Xtra Hot

Xtra Hot sits at 197 of 466 in the United Kingdom's listing, in the body of the list rather than at either end. This is where most of a national dial actually lives, and it is the part a country hub's first fifty rows never reach.

Nothing else in the United Kingdom's listing leads with bournemouth. The tag is self-declared, which makes it a statement of how the broadcaster positions itself rather than a classification anyone audited, and on this dial that statement is unique.

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.

The stream is served from stream1.hippynet.co.uk, an address two 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.

Xtra Hot publishes at xtrahot.radio. A .radio address is not open registration; the registry limits it to broadcasters and related organisations, so it is one of the few domains that says something verifiable about who owns it.