Вести FM (AAC)

In Russia's listing Вести FM (AAC) lands at 24 of 471, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

Вести FM (AAC) has 23 recorded opens in the public directory, which is a real number by the standards of this data set. Most entries never reach double figures, so a count at this level means the stream has been found and played repeatedly by people using directory clients rather than the broadcaster's own site.

The station's leading tag is news, shared with 12 other entries in Russia. It is a well populated tag here without being one of the country's defining ones, which is a common and unremarkable place for a station to sit.

Across every country, Вести FM (AAC) is 41 of the 307 stations leading with news, by the same open count the country list uses.

The gap here is large: 32 kbps where Russia's stations typically run 128. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

11 of Russia's entries are served from icecast-vgtrk.cdnvideo.ru, this one among them. A shared host means a shared fate. If this stream is silent, the fastest check is not this station's own site but whether its neighbours on the same platform are playing.