bigFM Nordrhein-Westfalen

bigFM Nordrhein-Westfalen sits at 501 of 1,409 in Germany's listing, in the body of the list rather than at either end. This is where most of a national dial actually lives, and it is the part a country hub's first fifty rows never reach.

German is the station's language and the country's commonest, one of six Germany's listing records.

The directory carries no bitrate for bigFM Nordrhein-Westfalen. 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 address on this entry points at stream.bigfm.de, which is where 24 other stations in Germany are served from as well. Platforms of that size carry the long tail of a country's dial, and they are the reason a listing can look broken when it is one host having a quiet hour.

The broadcaster publishes at bigfm.de, on Germany's own country domain. A national domain is a small piece of evidence that the station is what the directory says it is, since these are the harder ones to register from somewhere else.