Radio ALESIA

At position 39 of 47, this is one of the stations in Belarus that almost nobody arrives at by browsing. That is the case for having a page at all. A station reachable only by knowing its name is a station most directories lose.

Belarus carries six Belarusian stations in the directory against a Russian majority. Radio ALESIA is one of them, and the pairing of language and country is the fact that distinguishes it from the rest of the national list.

Belarusian is not large enough in this snapshot to have a shelf of its own here, so the station's only index is its country. Shelves are built from the directory's commonest broadcast languages and the line has to fall somewhere; below it, the country hub is the route.

Folk is the station's own leading tag and no other entry in Belarus uses it that way. Worth reading as self-description: the directory takes tags as broadcasters type them and does not reconcile them.

The stream is served from air.alesia.live, which no other entry in Belarus 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.