NDR Kultur

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

Out of 1,409 entries in Germany, this one ranks 280. 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.

21 stations in Germany lead with classical and NDR Kultur is one of them, though the tag does not make the country's headline list. Across the whole directory 242 stations use it first, so the rail below runs well past Germany.

On the same tag worldwide it is 51 of 242, which is inside the top quarter of every classical station the directory carries.

The stream address on this entry points at icecast.ndr.de, which is where 15 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.

NDR Kultur keeps its own site at ndr.de. The address sits under Germany's country code, which lines up with where the directory says the station broadcasts from.