Radio Maximum - Depeche Mode

In Russia's ordering this is number 172 of 471, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

Radio Maximum - Depeche Mode broadcasts in English from Russia. That is a minority language on the national dial, where Russian leads, but not a small one: 78 stations in Russia in the directory carry English, which is a substantial second listing inside the first.

The shelf for the language holds 5,984 stations, led by United States. A station like this one broadcasting from Russia is what stops that shelf from being a second copy of one country's hub.

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 served from depechemode.hostingradio.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.