Scorpions

Scorpions is at 233 in a listing of 471. Read the rank as a rough position rather than a standing: the click counts in the middle of a long national list are close enough together that a handful of opens moves a station several places.

Broadcasting in English from Russia, alongside 77 other stations there doing the same. Russian is the country's commonest broadcast language in this directory, so this is the second shelf of a bilingual listing.

The English shelf on this site collects every station in the language regardless of where it transmits from, and the directory's English entries are concentrated in United States, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom. Reading the shelf next to this page is the quickest way to see how far the language's dial actually reaches.

Scorpions streams at 64 kbps against Russia's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 53% 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 from srv01.gpmradio.ru. Four other stations in Russia stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.