MBC Loud

MBC Loud sits in the tail of Saudi Arabia's 51 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.

Saudi Arabia carries 13 English stations in the directory against a Arabic majority. MBC Loud is one of them, and the pairing of language and country is the fact that distinguishes it from the rest of the national list.

English radio in this directory sits largely in United States, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom, with 5,984 stations on the shelf in total. This page's station is one of the entries that make the shelf wider than any single country.

The stream is 70 kbps where Saudi Arabia's median is 128. Below the country's middle, which usually points at an older encoder or a deliberate choice to stay light, and matters far more for music than for talk.

MBC Loud publishes an HLS stream. That is a modern and perfectly good way to broadcast, and it is also why the button on this page may not start it: HLS needs a player that can read a playlist and fetch segments, which a browser audio tag does not do on its own.