РАДИО ВАНЯ

In Russia's listing РАДИО ВАНЯ lands at 4 of 471, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

The open count here is 110, a figure only a few hundred stations in the whole directory reach. It is a fair signal that the stream is reliable as well as popular, because a dead stream stops accumulating opens quickly once clients start failing on it.

РАДИО ВАНЯ leads with pop, a tag 11 other stations in Russia use and one the country hub lists among its headline genres. If the country's sound is what brought you here, this is squarely part of it.

Worldwide it ranks 3 among 343 pop entries, which is worth roughly as much as the count behind it and no more.

РАДИО ВАНЯ 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.

Its audio comes straight from icecast-radiovanya.cdnvideo.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.