DE · Saxony · German
MDR Aktuell
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- ard
- halle
- hörfunk
- infowelle
- leipzig
- mdr aktuell
- mdr info
- mitteldeutscher rundfunk
102 kbps · AAC · Record last changed 4 Oct 2026
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What the directory records
Record last changed 4 Oct 2026
- Country
- Germany
- Language
- German
- Format
- AAC
- Stream
- HLS playlist
- Last catalogue check
- Stream answered
- Broadcaster
- mdr.de
Among the 1,409 stations in Germany with pages, MDR Aktuell is around the halfway mark. Anything in this stretch is reachable from the country's numbered pages rather than from its front table, which is why those pages exist.
Ard covers 9 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 stream is 102 kbps where Germany's median is 128. Below the country's middle, which usually points at an older encoder or a deliberate choice to stay light, and matters far more for music than for talk.
The format here is AAC, against a listing for Germany overwhelmingly made of MP3. Both play in a browser; the difference shows up in how much quality survives at a given bitrate, where AAC has the advantage at lower rates.
This one is HLS, a segmented format rather than a single continuous stream. It is worth knowing because the failure is specific and fixable rather than a dead station: the address works, the browser just cannot open that shape of address unaided.
Its audio comes from radio-hls.mdr.de. Four other stations in Germany stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.
- City or region
- Saxony
- Country
- Germany
- Coordinates
- 51.316N, 12.386E
MDR Aktuell is one of 3,099 playable stations the catalogue lists in Germany, and one of the smaller number that say where in the country they transmit from.
These are counts of what people did inside the public radio-browser catalogue and the apps that read it, over the whole life of the entry. They are not our own figures and they are not an audience measurement: most entries in this catalogue sit under five all-time plays, so a small number here means the catalogue has little to say about this station rather than that nobody listens to it.
Broadcast by MDR Aktuell. Stream served directly by the broadcaster. Their own site is at www.mdr.de.
Listed in the directory as MDR AKTUELL. The heading above is that entry with the web address, the trailing keyword list and the block capitals taken out of it, which is a change to the spelling and to nothing else.
Station details come from the public radio-browser directory and are reproduced as recorded there. If you run this station and something here is wrong, or you would rather the page did not exist, write to us from the support page and we will fix or remove it.
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