Talk Radio 702

In South Africa's listing Talk Radio 702 lands at 8 of 100, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

Talk Radio 702 has 21 recorded opens in the public directory, which is a real number by the standards of this data set. Most entries never reach double figures, so a count at this level means the stream has been found and played repeatedly by people using directory clients rather than the broadcaster's own site.

Talk Radio 702 has no language recorded in the directory. We do not infer one. Guessing from the country would put every station in South Africa on the same shelf regardless of what it broadcasts, which is exactly the kind of filled-in blank that makes a directory untrustworthy.

At 192 kbps the stream is on the better side of South Africa's dial, where the median is 128 kbps. Not dramatically so, and bitrate is only one of several things that decide whether a stream sounds good, but it is the one the directory records.

The stream address on this entry points at playerservices.streamtheworld.com, which is where 9 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.