Capital Radio

In Tanzania's listing Capital Radio lands at 4 of 10, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

The interesting fact about this entry is the pairing. English is not what Tanzania's dial mostly speaks, and the directory has one English station registered in the country against a majority of Swahili.

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.

Nothing else in Tanzania's listing leads with news. 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.

At 64 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on Tanzania's dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

Its audio comes straight from capitalradio.radioca.st, an address unique to this entry in Tanzania's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.