Bisrat FM 101.1 Addis Ababa · 101.1 FM

Rank 17 of 20 in Ethiopia. What that mostly measures is how many people have already found the station through this directory, which is a poor proxy for anything else and an honest one to publish.

The open count against Bisrat FM 101.1 Addis Ababa · 101.1 FM is three, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

No language is recorded against this station. The field is optional in the public directory and a great many entries skip it, so an empty language says nothing about what you will hear when you press play. It does keep the station off the language shelves, since a shelf built on guesses would be worse than a shelf with holes.

The stream runs at 128 kbps, level with Ethiopia's median. Bitrate stops being interesting once a station is at the local norm, and the useful question moves on to whether the stream stays up, which no snapshot can answer.

Its audio comes straight from bisratfm-atunwadigital.streamguys1.com, an address unique to this entry in Ethiopia'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.