CBS News

CBS News sits at 13 of 38 in Uganda's listing, in the body of the list rather than at either end. This is where most of a national dial actually lives, and it is the part a country hub's first fifty rows never reach.

Only two entries in Uganda put current affairs first. The tag is self-declared and inconsistent between countries, which is why the rail below is worth more as a way of wandering than as a filter.

Twice the local median and then some: 273 kbps where Uganda's stations typically manage 128. Whether you can hear the difference depends entirely on what you are listening on, but the headroom is there.

CBS News streams in AAC while most of Uganda'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 is served as an HLS playlist, which is the format broadcasters use to switch bitrates on the fly and the one a plain browser audio element will not open. Nothing is wrong with the station; the player on this page simply cannot follow that kind of link without a library. The extension carries one and handles it.