Nightwave Plaza

In Russia's listing Nightwave Plaza lands at 116 of 471, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

The country's dial has two sizeable languages on it and this station is on the smaller one. 78 entries in Russia broadcast in English, against a listing whose commonest language is Russian.

English radio in this directory sits largely in United States, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom, with 5,984 stations on the shelf in total. This page's station is one of the entries that make the shelf wider than any single country.

The gap here is large: 64 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.

The stream is OGG, which is unusual anywhere: Russia's listing is dominated by MP3. Formats outside the common three are typically a deliberate choice by a broadcaster who cares about the encoding chain, and they are also the ones most likely to give a browser trouble.

The stream is served from radio.plaza.one, 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.