Al rasheed fm

Al rasheed fm sits third among the 18 stations in Iraq with pages here, close enough to the head of the list that most people browsing the country reach it early.

Al rasheed fm has 22 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.

Only two entries in Iraq put arabic first. The tag is self-declared and inconsistent between countries, which is why the rail below is worth more as a way of wandering than as a filter.

At 320 kbps, Al rasheed fm streams at more than double Iraq'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.

The stream is served from streaming.shoutcast.com, an address one other entry in Iraq uses as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.