Radio Bloem

At position 93 of 100, this is one of the stations in South Africa that almost nobody arrives at by browsing. That is the case for having a page at all. A station reachable only by knowing its name is a station most directories lose.

Radio Bloem has a zero in the directory's open count. It is the least interesting number on this page and the one most likely to be misread, so it is worth being plain: it measures traffic through radio-browser, not audience.

The language field is empty for this entry. It is left empty here too rather than filled from the country, because the shelves on this site are only worth using if what is on them was actually declared.

The gap here is large: 64 kbps where South Africa's stations typically run 128. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

The stream is served from stream.zeno.fm, an address four other entries in South Africa use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.