88.5 KQED

In the United States' listing 88.5 KQED lands at 367 of 1,481, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

With four recorded opens, 88.5 KQED sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in the United States' list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

English is the station's language and the country's commonest, one of six the United States' listing records.

The station's leading tag is public radio, shared with 8 other entries in the United States. 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.

At 32 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on the United States' dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

Its audio comes straight from streams.kqed.org, an address unique to this entry in the United States' 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.