Kontrafunk (AAC 64)

Out of 126 entries in Switzerland, this one ranks 11. 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.

Conservative is the station's own leading tag and no other entry in Switzerland uses it that way. Worth reading as self-description: the directory takes tags as broadcasters type them and does not reconcile them.

Kontrafunk (AAC 64) streams at 64 kbps against Switzerland's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 63% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

Its audio comes from s5.radio.co. One other station in Switzerland streams from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.

The broadcaster's own site is kontrafunk.radio, on the .radio domain. That one is genuinely restricted: it is administered for the broadcasting industry and applicants have to show they are a broadcaster, which makes it a stronger signal than most addresses on these pages.