KUER NPR Utah

Among the 1,481 stations in the United States with pages, KUER NPR Utah is around the halfway mark. Anything in this stretch is reachable from the country's numbered pages rather than from its front table, which is why those pages exist.

The open count against KUER NPR Utah is three, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

The country page counts news among its commonest tags, and this station is one of the 48 entries in the United States behind that count. Worldwide the tag leads 307 stations, which makes the rail below a very wide shelf.

At 64 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on the United States' dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

Its audio comes straight from kuer.streamguys1.com, an address unique to this entry in the United States' listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.