Premier Christian Radio

Premier Christian Radio is deep in the United Kingdom's listing, at 334 of 466. 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.

With two recorded opens, Premier Christian Radio sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in the United Kingdom's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

The gap here is large: 56 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 format here is AAC, against a listing for the United Kingdom 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.

Its audio comes straight from pcr.streamguys1.com, an address unique to this entry in the United Kingdom's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.