Metaradio

In Russia's listing Metaradio lands at 115 of 471, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

Metaradio is the only station in Russia whose first tag is russian dance electronic pop hits radio, out of 471 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in Russia does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only russian dance electronic pop hits radio station.

The stream is 96 kbps where Russia'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.

The stream is AAC. Russia's dial is split across three formats rather than settled on one, with MP3 the commonest, so this station is on a well populated side of a genuinely mixed listing.

The stream is served from s2.metaradio.ru, which no other entry in Russia 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.