DE · North Rhine-Westphalia · German
WDR 5 [aac]
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- information
- news talk
- political talk
- science
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
- Not stated
- Stream
- HLS playlist
- Last catalogue check
- Stream answered
- Broadcaster
- www1.wdr.de
The directory states no bitrate for this stream, so there is nothing to draw here. The field is filled from what a stream's own server announces when it is scanned, and plenty of servers announce nothing.
Out of 1,409 entries in Germany, this one ranks 342. 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.
Information 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.
No bitrate is recorded against this stream. It is a common gap: the value is scraped from the stream's headers and plenty of servers do not send them. Press play and your browser will tell you more in two seconds than the field would have.
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.
The stream is served from wdrhf.akamaized.net, an address one other entry in Germany uses as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.
- City or region
- North Rhine-Westphalia
- Country
- Germany
- Coordinates
- 50.940N, 6.951E
WDR 5 [aac] 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 WDR 5 [aac]. Stream served directly by the broadcaster. Their own site is at www1.wdr.de.
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