Radio Bimshire 106.1 FM

Radio Bimshire 106.1 FM is deep in Barbados' listing, at 6 of 6. Down here the ordering barely orders anything: the difference between one position and the next is often a single recorded open, so treat the neighbours below as a shelf rather than as a ranking.

At 192 kbps, Radio Bimshire 106.1 FM streams at more than double Barbados' median of 64 kbps. That is a deliberate choice by whoever runs it: bandwidth is the recurring cost of an internet station, and a rate this far above the local norm is money spent on sounding better than the dial around it.

The format here is MP3, against a listing for Barbados overwhelmingly made of AAC. Both play in a browser; the difference shows up in how much quality survives at a given bitrate, where MP3 is the older and more forgiving of the two.

The stream is served from listen.radioking.com, which no other entry in Barbados uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.

The broadcaster's own site is welove.radio, on the .radio domain. That one is genuinely restricted: it is administered for the broadcasting industry and applicants have to show they are a broadcaster, which makes it a stronger signal than most addresses on these pages.