Darik

Held against the 71 stations in Bulgaria on this site, this one is in the leading three. The order is the directory's count of stream opens rather than anybody's judgement, which is worth saying because a leading position on a list like this reflects habit as much as anything else.

The directory counts 20 opens against this stream. That is well above Bulgaria's median and it is the reason the station sits where it does on the country list, since the ordering is the count and nothing else.

The news corner of Bulgaria'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.

Across every country, Darik is 45 of the 307 stations leading with news, by the same open count the country list uses.

At 320 kbps, Darik streams at more than double Bulgaria's median of 128 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.