Детский Канал - Русское Радио

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

Детский Канал - Русское Радио sits in the tail of Russia's 471 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

Nothing else in Russia's listing leads with children music. The tag is self-declared, which makes it a statement of how the broadcaster positions itself rather than a classification anyone audited, and on this dial that statement is unique.

At 96 kbps, this sits below most of Russia's listing, whose median is 128 kbps. 53% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better, so the dial around it is mostly higher.

Its audio comes straight from rr-detskijkanal.hostingradio.ru, an address unique to this entry in Russia's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.