102.5 ABC Perth

Out of 140 entries in Australia, this one ranks 31. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

7 stations in Australia lead with local and 102.5 ABC Perth is one of them, though the tag does not make the country's headline list. Across the whole directory 27 stations use it first, so the rail below runs well past Australia.

On the same tag worldwide it is 4 of 27, which is inside the top quarter of every local station the directory carries.

102.5 ABC Perth publishes an HLS stream. That is a modern and perfectly good way to broadcast, and it is also why the button on this page may not start it: HLS needs a player that can read a playlist and fetch segments, which a browser audio tag does not do on its own.

The audio comes from streaming.abc-cdn.net.au, and 7 other stations in Australia are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of Australia's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.

102.5 ABC Perth and ABC NewsRadio are described by the directory in very nearly the same fields, which makes the differences between them worth stating rather than leaving to be inferred. This entry is named for a number, one hundred and two point five, and the other is not. They are filed in different parts of the country: this one under Western Australia, that one under New South Wales. The broadcaster tagged this entry local, local information, local news, local radio, local talk and news talk, which the other entry is not tagged with. The other entry carries the national news, national radio, sports news and weather tags and this one does not.