Ballermann Radio

In Germany's listing Ballermann Radio lands at 77 of 1,409, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

The directory counts 26 opens against this stream. That is well above Germany's median and it is the reason the station sits where it does on the country list, since the ordering is the count and nothing else.

No language is recorded against this station. The field is optional in the public directory and a great many entries skip it, so an empty language says nothing about what you will hear when you press play. It does keep the station off the language shelves, since a shelf built on guesses would be worse than a shelf with holes.

The directory carries no bitrate for Ballermann Radio. The field is filled from what the stream's own server reports when it is scanned, so an empty one usually means a server that answers without announcing itself rather than a bad stream. Germany's stations that do report come in at a median of 128 kbps, for whatever that is worth as a guess.

The stream is served from stream.bmr-radio.de, an address two other entries in Germany use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.