Радіо Нікополя

This is one of the quieter entries in Ukraine's listing, at 84 of 125. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

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

Радіо Нікополя streams at 32 kbps against Ukraine's median of 192, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 85% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

The format here is AAC, against a listing for Ukraine overwhelmingly made of MP3. Both play in a browser; the difference shows up in how much quality survives at a given bitrate, where AAC has the advantage at lower rates.

The stream is served from stream.nikopolnews.net, an address one other entry in Ukraine uses as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.