Cypriot Digital Radio Bitrates

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.

EU Digital Bitrates


 

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.
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
Software
Foobar2000
iTunes
VLC Player
Winamp
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