KIRO 710 ESPN Seattle

In the United States' ordering this is number 418 of 1,481, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

With four recorded opens, KIRO 710 ESPN Seattle 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.

The station's leading tag is sports, shared with 17 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.

The gap here is large: 48 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.

Its audio comes from bonneville.cdnstream1.com. Five 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.