WDR 5

WDR 5 is one of three entries in Germany whose names are the same but for a number, and this one's number is five. A broadcaster numbering its streams like that is separating feeds, not stations, so read the number as the part that matters.

In Germany's listing WDR 5 lands at 40 of 1,409, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

At 43 recorded opens, WDR 5 is one of the streams that people actually reach through the public directory rather than through a station's own app. The count is the whole basis of the ranking on this site, and it is worth knowing that it measures directory traffic specifically.

Nothing else in Germany's listing leads with chanson. 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.

The stream is served from wdr-wdr5-live.icecastssl.wdr.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.