Radio SRF 1 Zentralschweiz | 32k AAC

Radio SRF 1 Zentralschweiz | 32k AAC is deep in Switzerland's listing, at 102 of 126. Down here the ordering barely orders anything: the difference between one position and the next is often a single recorded open, so treat the neighbours below as a shelf rather than as a ranking.

Nothing else in Switzerland's listing leads with commercial free. 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 88 kbps, this sits below most of Switzerland's listing, whose median is 128 kbps. 63% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better, so the dial around it is mostly higher.

Radio SRF 1 Zentralschweiz | 32k AAC streams in AAC while most of Switzerland's dial is MP3. Codec choice is mostly invisible to a listener, and it is one of the clearest fingerprints of which hosting provider a station uses, since providers default their customers into a format and few customers ever change it.

The stream address on this entry points at stream.srg-ssr.ch, which is where 19 other stations in Switzerland are served from as well. Platforms of that size carry the long tail of a country's dial, and they are the reason a listing can look broken when it is one host having a quiet hour.