Balkan Radio

Position 17 of 71 in Bulgaria. The ordering is a click count and nothing more, but at this depth it still separates stations meaningfully, which stops being true further down the same list.

Broadcasting in Bulgarian, alongside most of Bulgaria's other entries. The country page breaks the remaining four languages out with counts, which is usually a quicker read of who lives somewhere than any summary.

Balkan Radio is the only station in Bulgaria whose first tag is america, out of 71 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in Bulgaria does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only america station.

Balkan Radio streams at 128 kbps, which is exactly where Bulgaria's dial sits: the country's median is 128 kbps. Being unremarkable on this axis is the normal case and it is fine. 71% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better.

The stream is AAC+. Bulgaria's dial is split across four formats rather than settled on one, with MP3 the commonest, so this station is on a well populated side of a genuinely mixed listing.

The stream is served from samcloud.spacial.com, which no other entry in Bulgaria 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.