BIG Radio 2 Banja Luka

Position 21 of 38 puts this station in the middle of Bosnia & Herzegovina's directory presence. The middle is worth browsing precisely because the ordering has stopped sorting by fame and has not yet stopped sorting at all.

Language and country do not match up the obvious way here. BIG Radio 2 Banja Luka transmits from Bosnia & Herzegovina, where Bosnian leads the listing, and broadcasts in Serbian, which four of the country's stations use.

The Serbian shelf on this site collects every station in the language regardless of where it transmits from, and the directory's Serbian entries are concentrated in Serbia, United States and Bulgaria. Reading the shelf next to this page is the quickest way to see how far the language's dial actually reaches.

The gap here is large: 36 kbps where Bosnia & Herzegovina's stations typically run 128. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

Where Bosnia & Herzegovina's stations mostly use MP3, this one uses AAC+. Worth a line only because it is a difference, and because the country page's format breakdown is one of the quicker ways to see which providers a national dial runs on.