Houston Public Media News 88.7

Out of 1,481 entries in the United States, this one ranks 55. 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.

The directory counts 26 opens against this stream. That is well above the United States' median and it is the reason the station sits where it does on the country list, since the ordering is the count and nothing else.

The station's leading tag is local news, shared with 8 other entries in the United States. It is a well populated tag here without being one of the country's defining ones, which is a common and unremarkable place for a station to sit.

Across every country, Houston Public Media News 88.7 is 6 of the 95 stations leading with local news, by the same open count the country list uses.

The gap here is large: 64 kbps where the United States' stations typically run 128. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

The stream is served from stream.houstonpublicmedia.org, an address two other entries in the United States use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.