Kurdistan 24

Kurdistan 24 is deep in Iraq's listing, at 12 of 18. 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.

The interesting fact about this entry is the pairing. Kurdish is not what Iraq's dial mostly speaks, and the directory has three Kurdish stations registered in the country against a majority of Arabic.

There is no Kurdish shelf on this site: the language sits below the cut for one in the current snapshot. The country hub carries the station instead, which is the axis that covers every entry without exception.

Nothing else in Iraq's listing leads with news. 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.

Worldwide it ranks 76 among 307 news entries, which is worth roughly as much as the count behind it and no more.

Its audio comes straight from audio-edge-3mayu.fra.h.radiomast.io, an address unique to this entry in Iraq'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.