KCRW Live 89.9 FM (AAC)

Rank 979 of 1,481 in the United States. What that mostly measures is how many people have already found the station through this directory, which is a poor proxy for anything else and an honest one to publish.

With one recorded open, KCRW Live 89.9 FM (AAC) sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in the United States' list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

Only two entries in the United States put culture first. The tag is self-declared and inconsistent between countries, which is why the rail below is worth more as a way of wandering than as a filter.

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.

Encoded as AAC, one of the three formats the United States' stations use. The country page breaks all of them out with counts.

The stream is served from streams.kcrw.com, an address four 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.