SomaFM Underground 80s (128k MP3)

SomaFM Underground 80s (128k MP3) is one of two entries in the United States whose names are the same but for a number, and this one's number is three. A broadcaster numbering its streams like that is separating feeds, not stations, so read the number as the part that matters.

Out of 1,481 entries in the United States, this one ranks 48. 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.

The directory counts 30 opens against this stream. That is well above the United States' median and it is the reason the station sits where it does on the country list, since the ordering is the count and nothing else.

The audio comes from ice5.somafm.com, and 31 other stations in the United States are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of the United States' listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.