KCRW Eclectic 24 (AAC)

KCRW Eclectic 24 (AAC) sits in the tail of the United States' 1,481 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

The directory records no opens at all for KCRW Eclectic 24 (AAC). That is a fact about the directory rather than about the station: a stream nobody has opened through radio-browser can be perfectly healthy and well listened to on its own site or on a radio. It does mean this page is where the station's directory history starts.

Twice the local median and then some: 256 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.

The stream is AAC. the United States' dial is split across three formats rather than settled on one, with MP3 the commonest, so this station is on a well populated side of a genuinely mixed listing.

Its audio comes from streams.kcrw.com. Four other stations in the United States stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.