Kalina Krasnaya

Among the 471 stations in Russia with pages, Kalina Krasnaya is around the halfway mark. Anything in this stretch is reachable from the country's numbered pages rather than from its front table, which is why those pages exist.

The open count against Kalina Krasnaya 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.

A pop station on a dial where pop is one of the commonest tags: 11 entries in Russia lead with it. The tags are broadcaster-supplied throughout, so read the count as how Russia's broadcasters describe themselves.

At 160 kbps the stream is on the better side of Russia's dial, where the median is 128 kbps. Not dramatically so, and bitrate is only one of several things that decide whether a stream sounds good, but it is the one the directory records.

Its audio comes straight from icecast-studio21.cdnvideo.ru, an address unique to this entry in Russia's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.

Kalina Krasnaya publishes at kalina.fm. Worth a note because .fm is a country domain that stopped meaning its country a long time ago: it is Micronesia's, and it is used by radio stations everywhere for the obvious reason.