Radio Orient

Radio Orient has 56 recorded opens in the public directory, which is a real number by the standards of this data set. Most entries never reach double figures, so a count at this level means the stream has been found and played repeatedly by people using directory clients rather than the broadcaster's own site.

France carries five Arabic stations in the directory against a French majority. Radio Orient is one of them, and the pairing of language and country is the fact that distinguishes it from the rest of the national list.

Arabic radio in this directory sits largely in Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Morocco, with 199 stations on the shelf in total. This page's station is one of the entries that make the shelf wider than any single country.

Nothing else in France's listing leads with arabic music. The tag is self-declared, which makes it a statement of how the broadcaster positions itself rather than a classification anyone audited, and on this dial that statement is unique.

The stream address on this entry points at stream.rcs.revma.com, which is where 18 other stations in France are served from as well. Platforms of that size carry the long tail of a country's dial, and they are the reason a listing can look broken when it is one host having a quiet hour.