اذاعة الشمس - A-Shams

اذاعة الشمس - A-Shams ranks 17 among 68 stations in Israel. High enough that the country hub carries it in its own tables, and far enough from the head that the neighbours below are a genuinely different set of stations from the famous ones.

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

The shelf for the language holds 199 stations, led by Algeria. A station like this one broadcasting from Israel is what stops that shelf from being a second copy of one country's hub.

Nothing else in Israel's listing leads with ilstations. 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.

اذاعة الشمس - A-Shams streams at 64 kbps against Israel's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 78% 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.