UFM 1003 (MP3)

In Singapore's ordering this is number 11 of 25, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

Singapore carries five Chinese stations in the directory against a English majority. UFM 1003 (MP3) is one of them, and the pairing of language and country is the fact that distinguishes it from the rest of the national list.

Where else Chinese is on air, according to the same snapshot: mostly China, Taiwan and Hong Kong SAR China. The shelf lists all 1,229 of them together, which is the view a country hub cannot give.

The encode is 96 kbps against a country median of 64. Comfortably above the middle of Singapore's listing without being one of its outliers.

The stream address on this entry points at playerservices.streamtheworld.com, which is where 15 other stations in Singapore are served from as well. Platforms of that size carry the long tail of a country's dial, and they are the reason a listing can look broken when it is one host having a quiet hour.