BBN Korean

BBN Korean sits in the tail of the United States' 1,481 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

Korean does not make the United States' list of commonest broadcast languages, which the hub caps at six. A station like this one is invisible on its own country page's language chart and perfectly visible on the Korean shelf, which is the argument for having both.

The shelf for the language holds 63 stations, led by South Korea. A station like this one broadcasting from the United States is what stops that shelf from being a second copy of one country's hub.

Only three entries in the United States put online christian radio first. The tag is self-declared and inconsistent between countries, which is why the rail below is worth more as a way of wandering than as a filter.

BBN Korean 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.