Bloomberg Europe

Out of 1,481 entries in the United States, this one ranks 223. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

1200 kbps against the United States' median of 128. Streams at this rate are the ones worth finding a good pair of headphones for, and they are uncommon: 49% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps at all.

An AACH264 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.

The stream is served as an HLS playlist, which is the format broadcasters use to switch bitrates on the fly and the one a plain browser audio element will not open. Nothing is wrong with the station; the player on this page simply cannot follow that kind of link without a library. The extension carries one and handles it.

The stream is served from bloomberg.com, an address one other entry in the United States uses as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.