Time FM Gevgelija

At position 14 of 20, this is one of the stations in North Macedonia 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.

The open count against Time FM Gevgelija is one, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

Time FM Gevgelija streams at 128 kbps, under North Macedonia's median of 192 kbps. A lower rate is not automatically worse: speech carries perfectly well below the music threshold, and a station built for phones on a weak connection has a good reason to encode this way.

The stream is served from s2.free-shoutcast.com, which no other entry in North Macedonia 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.

Their site is timefm.mk, a domain registered in North Macedonia. Where a station's own address and its listed country agree, the entry is a little more trustworthy than one where they do not.