Radyo Şirvan Perwer

At position 14 of 18, this is one of the stations in Iraq that almost nobody arrives at by browsing. That is the case for having a page at all. A station reachable only by knowing its name is a station most directories lose.

A Kurdish station transmitting from Iraq is a rarity in this data: three of the country's entries carry that language, against a listing whose commonest is Arabic. Combinations like this are the reason the site indexes language separately from country.

Kurdish is not large enough in this snapshot to have a shelf of its own here, so the station's only index is its country. Shelves are built from the directory's commonest broadcast languages and the line has to fall somewhere; below it, the country hub is the route.

Radyo Şirvan Perwer streams at 128 kbps, which is exactly where Iraq's dial sits: the country's median is 128 kbps. Being unremarkable on this axis is the normal case and it is fine. 80% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better.

Its audio comes straight from stream-156.zeno.fm, 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.