Classical Catholic Radio

Out of 1,481 entries in the United States, this one ranks 303. 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.

No language is recorded against this station. The field is optional in the public directory and a great many entries skip it, so an empty language says nothing about what you will hear when you press play. It does keep the station off the language shelves, since a shelf built on guesses would be worse than a shelf with holes.

Classical Catholic Radio shares its leading tag, catholic, with one other United States entry. Across every country the directory has 14 stations leading with it, so the rail below is mostly a trip abroad.

The stream runs at 128 kbps, level with the United States' median. Bitrate stops being interesting once a station is at the local norm, and the useful question moves on to whether the stream stays up, which no snapshot can answer.

The stream address on this entry points at streaming.live365.com, which is where 47 other stations in the United States are served from as well. Platforms of that size carry the long tail of a country's dial, and they are the reason a listing can look broken when it is one host having a quiet hour.