Cadena Ser + Malaga

Rank 300 of 487 in Spain. What that mostly measures is how many people have already found the station through this directory, which is a poor proxy for anything else and an honest one to publish.

The open count against Cadena Ser + Malaga is one, 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.

Cadena Ser + Malaga streams at 96 kbps, under Spain's median of 128 kbps. A lower rate is not automatically worse: speech carries perfectly well below the music threshold, and a station built for phones on a weak connection has a good reason to encode this way.

The audio comes from playerservices.streamtheworld.com, and 57 other stations in Spain 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 Spain's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.