4506 Radio

In the Philippines' ordering this is number 50 of 116, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

The open count against 4506 Radio is three, 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.

4506 Radio has no language recorded in the directory. We do not infer one. Guessing from the country would put every station in the Philippines on the same shelf regardless of what it broadcasts, which is exactly the kind of filled-in blank that makes a directory untrustworthy.

Twice the local median and then some: 192 kbps where the Philippines' stations typically manage 96. Whether you can hear the difference depends entirely on what you are listening on, but the headroom is there.

The stream is served from a6.asurahosting.com:6540, which no other entry in the Philippines 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.