Radio 1 Bulgaria

In Bulgaria's ordering this is number 40 of 71, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

Radio 1 Bulgaria is the only station in Bulgaria whose first tag is 90s, 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 90s station.

Radio 1 Bulgaria streams at 64 kbps against Bulgaria's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 71% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

Its audio comes straight from play.global.audio:80, an address unique to this entry in Bulgaria's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.