Power 98.7

Out of 100 entries in South Africa, this one ranks 7. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

The directory counts 22 opens against this stream. That is well above South Africa's median and it is the reason the station sits where it does on the country list, since the ordering is the count and nothing else.

Only two entries in South Africa put news first. The tag is self-declared and inconsistent between countries, which is why the rail below is worth more as a way of wandering than as a filter.

Across every country, Power 98.7 is 42 of the 307 stations leading with news, by the same open count the country list uses.

The audio comes from edge.iono.fm, and 27 other stations in South Africa are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of South Africa's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.