Radio SRF 4 News (AAC 192)

Radio SRF 4 News (AAC 192) ranks 24 among 126 stations in Switzerland. High enough that the country hub carries it in its own tables, and far enough from the head that the neighbours below are a genuinely different set of stations from the famous ones.

Radio SRF 4 News (AAC 192) shares its leading tag, information, with two other Switzerland entries. Across every country the directory has 74 stations leading with it, so the rail below is mostly a trip abroad.

On the same tag worldwide it is 18 of 74, which is inside the top quarter of every information station the directory carries.

168 kbps, which puts Radio SRF 4 News (AAC 192) above the 128 kbps that a typical entry in Switzerland runs at.

The format here is AAC, against a listing for Switzerland overwhelmingly made of MP3. Both play in a browser; the difference shows up in how much quality survives at a given bitrate, where AAC has the advantage at lower rates.

The audio comes from stream.srg-ssr.ch, and 19 other stations in Switzerland 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 Switzerland's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.