Прямий FM

Out of 125 entries in Ukraine, this one ranks 21. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

The station's language is Ukrainian, the commonest of the four the directory records for Ukraine. Language is one of the two axes this site indexes on, and the Ukrainian shelf collects these stations across every country that carries them.

5 stations in Ukraine lead with 320 kbit/s and Прямий FM is one of them, though the tag does not make the country's headline list. Across the whole directory 5 stations use it first, so the rail below runs well past Ukraine.

The encode is 320 kbps against a country median of 192. Comfortably above the middle of Ukraine's listing without being one of its outliers.

The stream is served from cast.mediaonline.net.ua, an address five other entries in Ukraine use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.

The station's own site is prm.fm. The .fm domain has nothing to do with FM radio or with where a station is: it belongs to the Federated States of Micronesia and has been sold to broadcasters worldwide for years, so read it as branding rather than as a location.