2SM SRN Sydney

2SM SRN Sydney is at position 6 of the 140 stations in Australia with pages here, inside the top quarter of the national listing. That is high enough to be reached by browsing rather than by searching, which is how most of these pages are actually found.

The news talk corner of Australia's dial is two stations deep in this snapshot. Small clusters like that are usually the most rewarding thing on a country page, because they are what the national broadcasters at the top of the list are not.

On the same tag worldwide it is 5 of 30, which is inside the top quarter of every news talk station the directory carries.

2SM SRN Sydney streams at 32 kbps against Australia's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 50% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

Its audio comes straight from cast4.asurahosting.com, an address unique to this entry in Australia'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.