Радио "Маяк"

Радио "Маяк" says radio and the lighthouse in Cyrillic. A name that describes its own programming is worth reading rather than skipping, because it is a fact stated by the broadcaster rather than a tag added by whoever filed the entry into Russia's listing.

Position 34 of 471 in Russia. The ordering is a click count and nothing more, but at this depth it still separates stations meaningfully, which stops being true further down the same list.

Радио "Маяк" 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.

The stream is encoded at 320 kbps, more than twice the 128 kbps median for Russia. Bitrate is the one quality figure the public directory carries, and on this entry it is unambiguous.

11 of Russia's entries are served from icecast-vgtrk.cdnvideo.ru, this one among them. A shared host means a shared fate. If this stream is silent, the fastest check is not this station's own site but whether its neighbours on the same platform are playing.

The broadcaster publishes at smotrim.ru, on Russia's own country domain. A national domain is a small piece of evidence that the station is what the directory says it is, since these are the harder ones to register from somewhere else.