QA · Station directory
Radio stations in Qatar
Press play on any of the 14 below and it starts in this tab. 14 of Qatar's 24 directory entries can be reached from a browser at all, and the difference is explained under the numbers.
Qatar has 24 entries in the public directory and 14 that a browser can open. The 10 in between are worth understanding rather than ignoring: they are largely live stations whose stream addresses were registered over http and never migrated, so they play in a desktop radio client and not in a tab.
Qatar has 7 stations at 128 kbps or above out of 14, against a median of 128 kbps. That combination means the dial is two populations rather than one, so the bitrate on each row is worth reading individually.
Qatar's listing is split across three formats with no clear leader. That is the least uniform shape a dial can have here, and it is worth reading alongside the bitrate figures: independent hosting produces variety in both.
English leads the listing at about 60% of the declared languages, with Arabic a real second at 2 stations. A country with two substantial broadcast languages reads very differently depending on which shelf you approach it from, and both shelves are linked below.
Most listened to in Qatar
Top 14 of 14More of the Qatar dial
Ordered by how often each station is opened across the public directory, fairly evenly spread here. Any row plays here, without leaving the page. Bitrate and format come from what each stream's server announces when it is scanned, so "not stated" is a silent server rather than a bad one.
- aljazeera
- Al Jazeera English (Audio)
- SUNO 91.7
The table above is the fifty most listened to. Beyond them, 4 more stations from Qatar have a page of their own here, listed most played first and playable from the list.
- news4
- world news3
- news talk1
- business news1
- cultural news1
- documentaries1
- international news1
- news and talk1
Stream formats
- AAC+3
- AAC3
- AACH2643
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