Big 8 Radio

Among the 1,481 stations in the United States with pages, Big 8 Radio is around the halfway mark. Anything in this stretch is reachable from the country's numbered pages rather than from its front table, which is why those pages exist.

Big 8 Radio shares its leading tag, 50s, with one other United States entry. Across every country the directory has 13 stations leading with it, so the rail below is mostly a trip abroad.

Twice the local median and then some: 64000 kbps where the United States' stations typically manage 128. Whether you can hear the difference depends entirely on what you are listening on, but the headroom is there.

An MP4 stream on a MP3 dial. The public directory records the format as the server reports it, and formats this far off the beaten track usually indicate somebody running their own encoder rather than a hosted service.

This one is HLS, a segmented format rather than a single continuous stream. It is worth knowing because the failure is specific and fixable rather than a dead station: the address works, the browser just cannot open that shape of address unaided.

Its audio comes from la2.indexcom.com. One other station in the United States streams from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.