Lite 87.8

Lite 87.8 sits in the tail of Sri Lanka's 39 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

The open count against Lite 87.8 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.

The directory carries no bitrate for Lite 87.8. 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. Sri Lanka's stations that do report come in at a median of 128 kbps, for whatever that is worth as a guess.

The stream is served from lite878.com, which no other entry in Sri Lanka uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.