Radio of Russia - Moscow

Out of 471 entries in Russia, this one ranks 117. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

Radio of Russia - Moscow has no language recorded in the directory. We do not infer one. Guessing from the country would put every station in Russia on the same shelf regardless of what it broadcasts, which is exactly the kind of filled-in blank that makes a directory untrustworthy.

Radio of Russia - Moscow is the only station in Russia whose first tag is news talk, 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 news talk station.

The encode is 192 kbps against a country median of 128. Comfortably above the middle of Russia's listing without being one of its outliers.

The audio comes from icecast-vgtrk.cdnvideo.ru, and 10 other stations in Russia are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of Russia's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.