Tel Aviv 102FM רדיו תל אביב

Out of 68 entries in Israel, this one ranks 7. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

Among 68 stations in Israel here, this is the only one that puts contenmporary first. The contenmporary rail below therefore leaves the country entirely, which is the more interesting direction to travel from a page like this.

Tel Aviv 102FM רדיו תל אביב 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.

The stream is AAC+. Israel's dial is split across three formats rather than settled on one, with MP3 the commonest, so this station is on a well populated side of a genuinely mixed listing.

The stream is served from 102.livecdn.biz, which no other entry in Israel uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.