Halloween Radio

Position 320 of 1,481 in the United States. The ordering is a click count and nothing more, but at this depth it still separates stations meaningfully, which stops being true further down the same list.

Halloween Radio streams at 24 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.

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 address on this entry points at stream.revma.ihrhls.com, which is where 176 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.

Halloween Radio and News Talk 740 KTRH are described by the directory in very nearly the same fields, which makes the differences between them worth stating rather than leaving to be inferred. They are filed in different parts of the country: this one under Fun and Scary Halloween Hits, that one under Texas. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, iheart.com and ktrh.iheart.com.