988 FM

In Malaysia's listing 988 FM lands at 4 of 44, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

The directory counts 27 opens against this stream. That is well above Malaysia's median and it is the reason the station sits where it does on the country list, since the ordering is the count and nothing else.

The language field is empty for this entry. It is left empty here too rather than filled from the country, because the shelves on this site are only worth using if what is on them was actually declared.

988 FM streams at 64 kbps against Malaysia's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 32% 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.

Its audio comes straight from 28103.live.streamtheworld.com, an address unique to this entry in Malaysia'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.