Radio Bonn / Rhein-Sieg

Out of 1,409 entries in Germany, this one ranks 250. 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.

Radio Bonn / Rhein-Sieg broadcasts in German, which is the language most of Germany's stations in the directory use. The country's listing records six languages in total, so the German stations are the body of the dial rather than the whole of it.

Nothing else in Germany's listing leads with regional. The tag is self-declared, which makes it a statement of how the broadcaster positions itself rather than a classification anyone audited, and on this dial that statement is unique.

At 192 kbps the stream is on the better side of Germany's dial, where the median is 128 kbps. Not dramatically so, and bitrate is only one of several things that decide whether a stream sounds good, but it is the one the directory records.

The stream is served from rbrs-live.cast.addradio.de, which no other entry in Germany uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.

Radio Bonn / Rhein-Sieg keeps its own site at radiobonn.de. The address sits under Germany's country code, which lines up with where the directory says the station broadcasts from.