Sham FM

In Syria's ordering this is number 10 of 20, 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 counts 23 opens against this stream. That is well above Syria's median and it is the reason the station sits where it does on the country list, since the ordering is the count and nothing else.

Arabic is the station's language and the country's commonest, one of two Syria's listing records.

At 128 kbps this is a typical stream for Syria by the one measure the directory carries.

The stream is served from radioshamfm.grtvstream.com:8400, which no other entry in Syria 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.

Sham FM publishes at sham.fm. Worth a note because .fm is a country domain that stopped meaning its country a long time ago: it is Micronesia's, and it is used by radio stations everywhere for the obvious reason.