How we checked Top Radio 102.8
Everything published about this station was read from the station's own website or its own stream, and every fact below names the page it came from and the year it was read. We changed 2 things about this entry. We also found 3 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
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Description
Top Radio 102.8 is a Malagasy-language station whose own slogan is "Sahy miteny hoan'i Gasikara" and whose own one-line description of itself is "Gasy 100%". Its published output is Malagasy popular music threaded with its own station jingles, and its identity is stated in Malagasy rather than French. It has no site of its own: the address it gives for itself, web.topradio.mg, redirects straight to its page on the RadioKing platform, and the apex topradio.mg serves nothing but a bare Apache directory index containing a single cgi-bin folder.
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Top Radio 102.8 on RadioKing, the operator's own hosting platform record and player history | 2026 |
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Artists
Logged live from the station's own player history: MAHALEO, "ANDRO RIRININA"; LOLO SY NY TARINY, "ANY LAVIDAVITRA ANY"; and HAGA, "ILAY RAOZY NOVOLEKO", each separated by the station's own jingle. All three are Malagasy artists and all three titles are in Malagasy.
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Top Radio 102.8 on RadioKing, the operator's own hosting platform record and player history | 2026 |
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Contact route
A route to a human exists, but only through social media. The station's own Facebook page is the only contact channel it publishes, and its platform page carries no contact form, email address, phone number, WhatsApp link or request line. I did not find a contact page, an email address or a studio number on anything the operator controls.
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Top Radio 102.8 on RadioKing, the operator's own hosting platform record and player history | 2026 |
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Era
Not a decades station; the artists sampled span the established Malagasy repertoire rather than one period.
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Top Radio 102.8 on RadioKing, the operator's own hosting platform record and player history | 2026 |
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Music
Malagasy popular music, with talk between records; its own platform record sets no genre field at all, so the format comes from what it plays.
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Top Radio 102.8 on RadioKing, the operator's own hosting platform record and player history | 2026 |
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Language
Malagasy. The station's own slogan and self-description are both in Malagasy, its station jingle is titled in Malagasy, and every track logged on its own player was a Malagasy-language song by a Malagasy artist. French may well feature on air, as it does across Antananarivo radio, but the station publishes nothing in French, so I did not claim it.
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Top Radio 102.8 on RadioKing, the operator's own hosting platform record and player history | 2026 |
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Kind
Live source at the time of reading. Its own platform record reports the stream started and a live session running for about 47 minutes, and every entry in its own track history is flagged as live rather than scheduled playout, with jingles inserted manually between records.
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Top Radio 102.8 on RadioKing, the operator's own hosting platform record and player history | 2026 |
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Worth knowing
The stored homepage for this row is a Facebook page, which is not a station site, and the answer is that this operator has no site of its own at all. Its own declared website web.topradio.mg redirects off its domain onto RadioKing, which is a hosting platform page and can be a source for its words but never its homepage, and topradio.mg itself is an unconfigured web server. The honest state of the field is empty.
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Top Radio 102.8 on RadioKing, the operator's own hosting platform record and player history | 2026 |
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Where
Madagascar, on 102.8 FM; the frequency appears in the station's own name and in its own jingle title, "jingle TOP RADIO 102.8 CLARA". The operator's accessible first-party material does not name a city. The check that would close that: open the operator's own Facebook page, which is the only place it publishes its own address, and take the city from there.
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Top Radio 102.8 on RadioKing, the operator's own hosting platform record and player history | 2026 |
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On air
none named. I looked at the operator's own platform page and its player record, and no presenter appears; the name CLARA occurs only inside the title of a station jingle, which is not a presenter credit and I have not treated it as one.
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Top Radio 102.8 on RadioKing, the operator's own hosting platform record and player history | 2026 |
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Programmes
none. Neither the operator's platform page nor any address it controls publishes a schedule, and its platform record exposes no planning data.
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Top Radio 102.8 on RadioKing, the operator's own hosting platform record and player history | 2026 |
What we corrected
Each of these changed a field in our own entry. The reasoning is the researcher's own, recorded when the change was made.
| Field | Change | Why |
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| homepage url | https://www.facebook.com/topradio1028fm/ → cleared | Cleared because this operator has no site of its own and the stored value was a Facebook page, which is not a station site. The address the operator itself declares as its website, web.topradio.mg, is recorded in its own platform record at https://api.radioking.io/widget/radio/topradio-102-8-1 as 'web.topradio.mg', and that hostname 301-redirects off its own registrable domain to https://www.radioking.com/radio/topradio-102-8-1, which then redirects again to play.radioking.com. A hosting platform page carries the operator's words and I have used it as a source, but it is never a homepage, and a homepage that redirects off its own domain would be refused by the guard in any case. The apex https://topradio.mg/ answers 200 but serves only a bare Apache 'Index of /' listing containing a single cgi-bin directory dated 2019, so there is no operator site there either. This is not a read failure: all three addresses responded, and what they returned shows there is no station site to store. The operator's Facebook page remains usable as a source for its own words. |
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mg
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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Established from the station's own output. Its platform record at https://api.radioking.io/widget/radio/topradio-102-8-1 carries the slogan 'Sahy miteny hoan'i Gasikara' and its page description is 'Gasy 100%', both Malagasy. Its own player history at https://api.radioking.io/widget/radio/topradio-102-8-1/track/history logs MAHALEO 'ANDRO RIRININA', LOLO SY NY TARINY 'ANY LAVIDAVITRA ANY' and HAGA 'ILAY RAOZY NOVOLEKO', all Malagasy artists with Malagasy titles, interleaved with its own jingle titled 'jingle TOP RADIO 102.8 CLARA'. I did not take the value from the 'lang' field on the same platform record, which reads 'fr': that is the platform's interface and metadata language setting, not a statement about what is spoken on air, and taking it would have put French in this row against the station's own slogan, description, jingle and entire playlist. French may also feature on air, but the operator publishes nothing in French, so mg is what the evidence carries. |
What we found and did not publish
Material that would have made this page fuller, and was refused. A page with five named presenters looks better than a page with none even when the five are a website theme's demonstration content, and the difference is invisible to a reader. So it is recorded here instead.
| What we could have said | Why we did not |
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| A street address on Boulevard Ratsimandrava and a mobile number for the station | Both came from a business directory rather than from the operator, and this catalogue does not take facts from directories.
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| The language field on the station's own platform record, which reads "fr" | That is the platform's own interface and metadata language setting, not a statement about what is spoken on air, and the station's slogan, description, jingle and entire sampled playlist are in Malagasy; treating the platform field as evidence would have put the wrong language in this row.
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| The Facebook page as a homepage | A social account carries the operator's own words and is usable as a source, but it is not a station site, which is why this field is being cleared rather than repointed.
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If you think something here is wrong
Tell us which fact and what you found instead. Everything above names its source and its date, so a disagreement can be settled by looking rather than argued. Where another site disagrees with us, it is usually because it is repeating a radio directory, and occasionally because we got it wrong. We would like to know which.
Read from the station's own material; this page is generated from the
catalogue as it stands now, so it changes when the research does. Research
current as at 2026.
This entry began as: Top Radio 102.8 — listed via Radio Browser · https://www.facebook.com/topradio1028fm/