This page was last updated on September 29 2021
This is a list of Public Service and commercial radio stations in Cyprus (Greek), comparing audio bitrates for online streams and satellite.
Please contact the site with any corrections or additions to this list.
Audio Information
Joint Stereo – Audio mode in which two channels forming a stereo pair (left and right) are encoded within the one-bit stream and for which stereophonic irrelevance or redundancy is exploited for further bit reduction.
Mono LSF (Low Sampling Frequency) – Low bitrate encoding with halved sampling rate.
HE-AAC (High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding) – More efficient high-quality multichannel and stereo audio codec used with DAB+.
Audio codec: MPEG 1 Layer II
Better than FM quality requires 192-256 kbps
Similar to FM quality requires 160-192 kbps
Acceptable, worse than FM 128-160 kbps
(Based on stereo services)
Audio codec: aacPlus v2
Better than FM quality requires 56-96 kbps
Similar to FM quality requires 40-64 kbps
Acceptable, worse than FM 24-48 kbps
(Based on stereo services)
Public Service Digital Radio Bitrates
This list of digital radio bitrates is provided in good faith, 100% accuracy can not be guaranteed, as changes periodically occur on the various platforms used by Public Service Radio in .
Below are audio bitrate comparisons for the PSB digital radio station, DAB+, Terrstrial and satellite.
Please email any corrections or additional information and have them included.
| PSB Digital Radio Bitrates | |||||||
| Platform | Online | DAB+ | Satellite | ||||
| Station | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | |
| CyBC (ΡΙΚ, KRYK) Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (Ραδιοφωνικό Ίδρυμα Κύπρου Radiofonikó Ídryma Kýprou/Kıbrıs Radyo Yayın Kurumu), is Cyprus’ public broadcasting service. |
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| RIK 1 (Πρώτο Πρόγραμμα ΡΙΚ) | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 192 kbps | Stereo | |
| RIK 2 (Δεύτερο Πρόγραμμα ΡΙΚ) | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 192 kbps | Stereo | |
| RIK 3 (Τρίτο Πρόγραμμα ΡΙΚ) | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 192 kbps/160 kbps | Stereo | |
| RIK Classic | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | 192 kbps | Stereo | |
Commercial Digital Radio Bitrates
This list of digital radio bitrates is provided in good faith, 100% accuracy can not be guaranteed, as changes periodically occur on the various platforms used.
Below are audio bitrate comparisons for commercial digital radio stations, Online streams, DAB+ and satellite.
Please email any corrections or additional information and have them included.
| Commercial Digital Radio Bitrates | |||||||
| Platform |
Online | DAB+ | Satellite | ||||
| Station |
Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | |
| Active | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Agios Demetrios (Άγιος Δημήτριος) | Unknown | Unknown | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| ANT1 Radio Cy | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Capital Radio (Cyprus) | 320 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Channel 7 (Κανάλι 7) | 96 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| DeeJay Cyprus | 128 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Diesi FM (Δίεση FM) | 128 kbps ADTS | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Dromos FM (Δρόμος FM) | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Kanali 6 | 64 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Kiss FM | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Klik FM (Κλικ FM) | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Love FM | 64 kbps aac | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Mix FM Cyprus | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| NJOY 99,5 | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| NRJ Cyprus | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Astra (Ράδιο Άστρα) | 112 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Paphos (Ράδιο Πάφος) | 128 kbps ADTS | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Politis (Ράδιο Πολίτης) | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Proto (Ράδιο Πρώτο) | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Russian Radio (Русское Радио) | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Sfera 96,8 | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Sport 95 FM | 64 kbps ADTS | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Super FM | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Supersport FM | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Zenith Radio (Ράδιο Ζενίθ) | 128 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Stream Formats: Windows Media requires Windows Media Player MP3 requires a streaming MP3 player such as Winamp, iTunes, Foobar2000 or VLC Media player Ogg Vorbis requires an Ogg Vorbis compatible player such as Winamp, Foobar2000 or VLC Media player aacPlus requires an aacPlus player such as Winamp 5.08+, Foobar2000 or VLC Media player |
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| Software Foobar2000 iTunes VLC Player Winamp |
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