Radio Antalya

Position 222 of 369 puts this station in the middle of Türkiye's directory presence. The middle is worth browsing precisely because the ordering has stopped sorting by fame and has not yet stopped sorting at all.

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

Downtempo is the station's own leading tag and no other entry in Türkiye uses it that way. Worth reading as self-description: the directory takes tags as broadcasters type them and does not reconcile them.

At 320 kbps, Radio Antalya streams at more than double Türkiye's median of 128 kbps. That is a deliberate choice by whoever runs it: bandwidth is the recurring cost of an internet station, and a rate this far above the local norm is money spent on sounding better than the dial around it.

AAC here, on a dial that carries three different formats. A mixed codec listing usually means a country whose stations are hosted in several different places rather than through one dominant provider.

Its audio comes straight from my.radiolize.com, 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.