SunFM

Position 7 of 39 in Sri Lanka. The ordering is a click count and nothing more, but at this depth it still separates stations meaningfully, which stops being true further down the same list.

Language and country do not match up the obvious way here. SunFM transmits from Sri Lanka, where Sinhala leads the listing, and broadcasts in English, which four of the country's stations use.

The English shelf on this site collects every station in the language regardless of where it transmits from, and the directory's English entries are concentrated in United States, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom. Reading the shelf next to this page is the quickest way to see how far the language's dial actually reaches.

SunFM streams at 128 kbps, which is exactly where Sri Lanka's dial sits: the country's median is 128 kbps. Being unremarkable on this axis is the normal case and it is fine. 64% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better.

The stream is served from radio.lotustechnologieslk.net:2020, an address three other entries in Sri Lanka use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.

The broadcaster publishes at sunfm.lk, on Sri Lanka's own country domain. A national domain is a small piece of evidence that the station is what the directory says it is, since these are the harder ones to register from somewhere else.