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91.5 Wbez-fm
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- public radio
64 kbps · AAC · Record last changed 4 Oct 2026
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What the directory records
Record last changed 4 Oct 2026
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Format
- AAC
- Stream
- Direct https
- Last catalogue check
- Stream answered
- Broadcaster
- wbez.org
In the United States' ordering this is number 861 of 1,481, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.
The open count against 91.5 Wbez-fm is one, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.
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 64 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.
The stream is served from stream.wbez.org, which no other entry in the United States uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.
- City or region
- Illinois
- Country
- United States
- Coordinates
- 41.893N, 87.621W
91.5 Wbez-fm is one of 3,967 playable stations the catalogue lists in United States, and one of the smaller number that say where in the country they transmit from.
These are counts of what people did inside the public radio-browser catalogue and the apps that read it, over the whole life of the entry. They are not our own figures and they are not an audience measurement: most entries in this catalogue sit under five all-time plays, so a small number here means the catalogue has little to say about this station rather than that nobody listens to it.
Broadcast by 91.5 Wbez-fm. Stream served directly by the broadcaster. Their own site is at www.wbez.org.
Listed in the directory as 91.5 WBEZ-FM. The heading above is that entry with the web address, the trailing keyword list and the block capitals taken out of it, which is a change to the spelling and to nothing else.
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