Al Jazeera Arabic

Rank 12 of 15 in Qatar. What that mostly measures is how many people have already found the station through this directory, which is a poor proxy for anything else and an honest one to publish.

With two recorded opens, Al Jazeera Arabic sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Qatar's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

The directory records no language for Al Jazeera Arabic. That gap is common and it is upstream of this site: broadcasters fill the field or they do not, and roughly a third of the stations with pages here have left it empty. It means the station appears on its country hub and not on any language shelf, which is the one place the omission costs it.

The stream is 99 kbps where Qatar's median is 128. Below the country's middle, which usually points at an older encoder or a deliberate choice to stay light, and matters far more for music than for talk.

This one is HLS, a segmented format rather than a single continuous stream. It is worth knowing because the failure is specific and fixable rather than a dead station: the address works, the browser just cannot open that shape of address unaided.

The stream is served from live-hls-web-aja-gcp.thehlive.com, which no other entry in Qatar 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.