UbuntuFM Africa

In South Africa's ordering this is number 26 of 100, 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.

The directory records no language for UbuntuFM Africa. That gap is common and it is upstream of this site: broadcasters fill the field or they do not, and roughly a third of the stations with pages here have left it empty. It means the station appears on its country hub and not on any language shelf, which is the one place the omission costs it.

Nothing else in South Africa's listing leads with africa. The tag is self-declared, which makes it a statement of how the broadcaster positions itself rather than a classification anyone audited, and on this dial that statement is unique.

The stream runs at 128 kbps, level with South Africa's median. Bitrate stops being interesting once a station is at the local norm, and the useful question moves on to whether the stream stays up, which no snapshot can answer.

The stream is served from streaming.coollective.nl:8443, an address one other entry in South Africa uses as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.