SWR 4 Freiburg

SWR 4 Freiburg is one of two entries in Germany whose names are the same but for a number, and this one's number is four. A broadcaster numbering its streams like that is separating feeds, not stations, so read the number as the part that matters.

Rank 1406 of 1,409 in Germany. What that mostly measures is how many people have already found the station through this directory, which is a poor proxy for anything else and an honest one to publish.

No opens have been recorded against SWR 4 Freiburg in the public directory. Plenty of working stations sit at zero, because the count only rises when somebody plays the stream from a client that reports back, and most listening never touches the directory at all.

SWR 4 Freiburg has no language recorded in the directory. We do not infer one. Guessing from the country would put every station in Germany on the same shelf regardless of what it broadcasts, which is exactly the kind of filled-in blank that makes a directory untrustworthy.

The audio comes from liveradio.swr.de, and 35 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.