Звезда

Read as words rather than as a brand, the name says star. That is the broadcaster's own description of the service, written in Cyrillic, and it is more specific than the tags the entry carries.

Звезда is at position 23 of the 471 stations in Russia with pages here, inside the top quarter of the national listing. That is high enough to be reached by browsing rather than by searching, which is how most of these pages are actually found.

At 24 recorded opens, Звезда is one of the streams that people actually reach through the public directory rather than through a station's own app. The count is the whole basis of the ranking on this site, and it is worth knowing that it measures directory traffic specifically.

News covers 13 of Russia's entries. Tags on this site are always the broadcaster's own first tag and never a second one, because a station tagged five ways would otherwise appear on five shelves and turn each of them into a tag cloud.

On the same tag worldwide it is 39 of 307, which is inside the top quarter of every news station the directory carries.

The stream is served from icecast-zvezda.mediacdn.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.