Radio Bouira

Radio Bouira sits in the tail of Algeria's 52 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

The open count against Radio Bouira is three, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

Local radio is one of Algeria's headline genres in this directory, and Radio Bouira is one of 27 stations there leading with it. The country hub prints the same tag near the top of its own list, so this station sits inside the country's main sound rather than off to one side.

No bitrate is recorded against this stream. It is a common gap: the value is scraped from the stream's headers and plenty of servers do not send them. Press play and your browser will tell you more in two seconds than the field would have.

Its audio comes straight from radiobouira.ice.infomaniak.ch, an address unique to this entry in Algeria's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.