LBC London (National stream)

Out of 466 entries in the United Kingdom, this one ranks 55. 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.

The station's leading tag is news, shared with 7 other entries in the United Kingdom. It is a well populated tag here without being one of the country's defining ones, which is a common and unremarkable place for a station to sit.

Worldwide it ranks 54 among 307 news entries, which is worth roughly as much as the count behind it and no more.

The gap here is large: 48 kbps where the United Kingdom's stations typically run 128. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

The stream address on this entry points at media-ssl.musicradio.com, which is where 26 other stations in the United Kingdom 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.

LBC London (National stream) publishes at lbc.co.uk. The domain's country code is not the country the directory files the station under, which happens often enough with hosted stations and diaspora broadcasters to be unremarkable, and is still a difference this page will point out rather than hide.