Algérie Chaîne 3

Held against the 52 stations in Algeria on this site, this one is in the leading three. The order is the directory's count of stream opens rather than anybody's judgement, which is worth saying because a leading position on a list like this reflects habit as much as anything else.

Algérie Chaîne 3 has 45 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.

Algeria carries eight French stations in the directory against a Arabic majority. Algérie Chaîne 3 is one of them, and the pairing of language and country is the fact that distinguishes it from the rest of the national list.

French radio in this directory sits largely in France, Canada and Belgium, with 1,384 stations on the shelf in total. This page's station is one of the entries that make the shelf wider than any single country.

Nothing else in Algeria's listing leads with culture. 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.

On the same tag worldwide it is 7 of 86, which is inside the top quarter of every culture station the directory carries.