Radio Hamrah رادیو همراه

Radio Hamrah رادیو همراه ranks 139 among 1,481 stations in the United States. High enough that the country hub carries it in its own tables, and far enough from the head that the neighbours below are a genuinely different set of stations from the famous ones.

A combination the country page cannot show you: Persian sits outside the six languages the United States' listing breaks out, so the only route to stations like Radio Hamrah رادیو همراه is the language axis.

Persian 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.

Nothing else in the United States' listing leads with farsi. The tag is self-declared, which makes it a statement of how the broadcaster positions itself rather than a classification anyone audited, and on this dial that statement is unique.

Radio Hamrah رادیو همراه streams at 64 kbps against the United States' median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 49% 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.