Radio Kwizera

Radio Kwizera sits in the tail of Tanzania's 10 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.

With three recorded opens, Radio Kwizera sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Tanzania's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

Radio Kwizera has no language recorded in the directory. We do not infer one. Guessing from the country would put every station in Tanzania on the same shelf regardless of what it broadcasts, which is exactly the kind of filled-in blank that makes a directory untrustworthy.

The stream is 96 kbps where Tanzania's median is 128. Below the country's middle, which usually points at an older encoder or a deliberate choice to stay light, and matters far more for music than for talk.

Its audio comes straight from uk4-vn.mixstream.net, 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.