Radio Nostalgie (Kazakhstan)

In Kazakhstan's listing Radio Nostalgie (Kazakhstan) lands at 5 of 24, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

Kazakhstan carries 14 Russian stations in the directory against a Kazakh majority. Radio Nostalgie (Kazakhstan) is one of them, and the pairing of language and country is the fact that distinguishes it from the rest of the national list.

Where else Russian is on air, according to the same snapshot: mostly Russia, Belarus and United States. The shelf lists all 575 of them together, which is the view a country hub cannot give.

The pop corner of Kazakhstan's dial is three stations deep in this snapshot. Small clusters like that are usually the most rewarding thing on a country page, because they are what the national broadcasters at the top of the list are not.

At 128 kbps this is a typical stream for Kazakhstan by the one measure the directory carries.

Its audio comes straight from listen7.myradio24.com, an address unique to this entry in Kazakhstan'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.