Sputnik Arabic

Sputnik Arabic is deep in Russia's listing, at 358 of 471. Down here the ordering barely orders anything: the difference between one position and the next is often a single recorded open, so treat the neighbours below as a shelf rather than as a ranking.

A combination the country page cannot show you: Arabic sits outside the six languages Russia's listing breaks out, so the only route to stations like Sputnik Arabic is the language axis.

Arabic radio in this directory sits largely in Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Morocco, with 199 stations on the shelf in total. This page's station is one of the entries that make the shelf wider than any single country.

Sputnik Arabic streams at 64 kbps against Russia's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 53% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

The stream is served from icecast-rian.cdnvideo.ru, an address three other entries in Russia use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.