94.7 KUMU

In the United States' ordering this is number 636 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.

With two recorded opens, 94.7 KUMU 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.

Tagged alternative, along with 26 other stations in the country and 124 across the directory.

94.7 KUMU streams at 64 kbps against the United States' median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 49% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

Encoded as AAC+, one of the three formats the United States' stations use. The country page breaks all of them out with counts.

Its audio comes from pacificmedia.cdnstream1.com. Four other stations in the United States stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.