Rainbow FM

Position 50 of 100 puts this station in the middle of South Africa's directory presence. The middle is worth browsing precisely because the ordering has stopped sorting by fame and has not yet stopped sorting at all.

The open count against Rainbow FM is three, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

Gospel is the station's own leading tag and no other entry in South Africa uses it that way. Worth reading as self-description: the directory takes tags as broadcasters type them and does not reconcile them.

The directory carries no bitrate for Rainbow FM. The field is filled from what the stream's own server reports when it is scanned, so an empty one usually means a server that answers without announcing itself rather than a bad stream. South Africa's stations that do report come in at a median of 128 kbps, for whatever that is worth as a guess.

The stream address on this entry points at edge.iono.fm, which is where 27 other stations in South Africa 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.