BR Schlager

One word in the name is ordinary German rather than branding: Schlager is schlager. Worth a line for anyone reading a list of stations in a language they do not have.

BR Schlager is at position 213 of the 1,409 stations in Germany with pages here, inside the top quarter of the national listing. That is high enough to be reached by browsing rather than by searching, which is how most of these pages are actually found.

Schlager covers 6 of Germany's entries. Tags on this site are always the broadcaster's own first tag and never a second one, because a station tagged five ways would otherwise appear on five shelves and turn each of them into a tag cloud.

The audio comes from dispatcher.rndfnk.com, and 27 other stations in Germany 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 Germany's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.

The broadcaster publishes at br.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.