Спутник

In Russia's listing Спутник lands at 6 of 471, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

The directory counts 70 opens against this stream. That is well above Russia's median and it is the reason the station sits where it does on the country list, since the ordering is the count and nothing else.

Спутник broadcasts in Russian, which is the language most of Russia's stations in the directory use. The country's listing records six languages in total, so the Russian stations are the body of the dial rather than the whole of it.

13 stations in Russia lead with news and Спутник is one of them, though the tag does not make the country's headline list. Across the whole directory 307 stations use it first, so the rail below runs well past Russia.

On the same tag worldwide it is 12 of 307, which is inside the top quarter of every news station the directory carries.

Its audio comes from icecast-rian.cdnvideo.ru. Three other stations in Russia stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.