Радіо Максимум

Радіо Максимум sits in the tail of Ukraine's 125 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.

At 128 kbps, this sits below most of Ukraine's listing, whose median is 192 kbps. 85% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better, so the dial around it is mostly higher.

Радіо Максимум streams in AAC while most of Ukraine's dial is MP3. Codec choice is mostly invisible to a listener, and it is one of the clearest fingerprints of which hosting provider a station uses, since providers default their customers into a format and few customers ever change it.

The stream is served from lux.radio.tvstitch.com, 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.

Радіо Максимум publishes at maximum.fm. Worth a note because .fm is a country domain that stopped meaning its country a long time ago: it is Micronesia's, and it is used by radio stations everywhere for the obvious reason.