YFm 979 Takoradi

YFm 979 Takoradi is deep in Ghana's listing, at 50 of 58. Down here the ordering barely orders anything: the difference between one position and the next is often a single recorded open, so treat the neighbours below as a shelf rather than as a ranking.

Broadcasting in Akan from Ghana, alongside 53 other stations there doing the same. English is the country's commonest broadcast language in this directory, so this is the second shelf of a bilingual listing.

The shelf for the language holds 55 stations, led by Belgium. A station like this one broadcasting from Ghana is what stops that shelf from being a second copy of one country's hub.

YFm 979 Takoradi streams at 64 kbps against Ghana's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 76% 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.

The stream is served from atunwadigital.streamguys1.com, an address five other entries in Ghana use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.