Bitlis FM 98.8

Bitlis FM 98.8 is at 194 in a listing of 369. Read the rank as a rough position rather than a standing: the click counts in the middle of a long national list are close enough together that a handful of opens moves a station several places.

Türkiye carries 13 Kurdish stations in the directory against a Turkish majority. Bitlis FM 98.8 is one of them, and the pairing of language and country is the fact that distinguishes it from the rest of the national list.

Kurdish is not large enough in this snapshot to have a shelf of its own here, so the station's only index is its country. Shelves are built from the directory's commonest broadcast languages and the line has to fall somewhere; below it, the country hub is the route.

The stream is encoded at 320 kbps, more than twice the 128 kbps median for Türkiye. Bitrate is the one quality figure the public directory carries, and on this entry it is unambiguous.

Its audio comes straight from ssl22.radyotelekom.com:8172, an address unique to this entry in Türkiye'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.