kanal 8

Position 11 of 18 puts this station in the middle of Iraq's directory presence. The middle is worth browsing precisely because the ordering has stopped sorting by fame and has not yet stopped sorting at all.

The directory carries no bitrate for kanal 8. The field is filled from what the stream's own server reports when it is scanned, so an empty one usually means a server that answers without announcing itself rather than a bad stream. Iraq's stations that do report come in at a median of 128 kbps, for whatever that is worth as a guess.

kanal 8 streams in MP4 rather than the MP3 that most of Iraq's dial uses. Uncommon codecs are worth noticing for a practical reason as well as a nerdy one: browser support for them is thinner than for MP3 and AAC.

This one is HLS, a segmented format rather than a single continuous stream. It is worth knowing because the failure is specific and fixable rather than a dead station: the address works, the browser just cannot open that shape of address unaided.

kanal 8 streams from live.channel8.com. No other station in Iraq is served from that address, and across the whole directory it appears one time in total.