Times Radio

In the United Kingdom's listing Times Radio lands at 11 of 466, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

At 70 recorded opens, Times Radio is one of the streams that people actually reach through the public directory rather than through a station's own app. The count is the whole basis of the ranking on this site, and it is worth knowing that it measures directory traffic specifically.

8 stations in the United Kingdom lead with news and Times Radio is one of them, though the tag does not make the country's headline list. Across the whole directory 307 stations use it first, so the rail below runs well past United Kingdom.

Worldwide it ranks 11 among 307 news entries, which is worth roughly as much as the count behind it and no more.

Where the United Kingdom's stations mostly use MP3, this one uses AAC. Worth a line only because it is a difference, and because the country page's format breakdown is one of the quicker ways to see which providers a national dial runs on.

Times Radio streams from timesradio.wireless.radio. No other station in the United Kingdom is served from that address, and across the whole directory it appears one time in total.

The station's site is at thetimes.co.uk, which sits under the .uk country domain rather than the United Kingdom's. That mismatch is usually mundane, a host or a parent organisation registered elsewhere, and it is the kind of small inconsistency worth seeing rather than smoothing over.