Central Radio 98.5

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256 kbps · AAC · Record last changed 4 Oct 2026

What the directory records

Record last changed 4 Oct 2026

Country: Zimbabwe
Language: Not stated
Format: AAC
Stream: Direct https
On the dial: 98.5 FM
Last catalogue check: Stream answered
Broadcaster: centralradio.co.zw

Bitrate against the Zimbabwe median256 kbps

0this stationZimbabwe median, 256128, the hi-fi line294

Language, country and where this sitsComputed from the directory record of 4 Oct 2026

In Zimbabwe's ordering, Central Radio 98.5 is at position 3 of 3. The stations above and below it are the ones the country hub prints first, so this page and that one describe nearly the same handful of streams from two directions.

The language field is empty for this entry. It is left empty here too rather than filled from the country, because the shelves on this site are only worth using if what is on them was actually declared.

The stream runs at 256 kbps, level with Zimbabwe's median. Bitrate stops being interesting once a station is at the local norm, and the useful question moves on to whether the stream stays up, which no snapshot can answer.

Its audio comes straight from centralstream.zbc.co.zw:8000, an address unique to this entry in Zimbabwe'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.

Their site is centralradio.co.zw, a domain registered in Zimbabwe. Where a station's own address and its listed country agree, the entry is a little more trustworthy than one where they do not.

What the catalogue recordsCounted by radio-browser, not by us

All-time plays8

Listener votes357

Recent directionrising

Rank in Zimbabwe3 of 3

Position in the Zimbabwe list, most played at the right.

These are counts of what people did inside the public radio-browser catalogue and the apps that read it, over the whole life of the entry. They are not our own figures and they are not an audience measurement: most entries in this catalogue sit under five all-time plays, so a small number here means the catalogue has little to say about this station rather than that nobody listens to it.

Broadcast by Central Radio 98.5. Stream served directly by the broadcaster. Their own site is at www.centralradio.co.zw.

Listed in the directory as CENTRAL RADIO 98.5. The heading above is that entry with the web address, the trailing keyword list and the block capitals taken out of it, which is a change to the spelling and to nothing else.

Station details come from the public radio-browser directory and are reproduced as recorded there. If you run this station and something here is wrong, or you would rather the page did not exist, write to us from the support page and we will fix or remove it.

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Compiled by Fable, Editor, World Radio PlayerRecord last changed 4 Oct 2026

Nothing on this page is written by hand. It is assembled from the public radio-browser record for this station and from what that record can be compared against, under rules published in full.

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