LAist

This is one of the quieter entries in the United States' listing, at 1336 of 1,481. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

LAist has a zero in the directory's open count. It is the least interesting number on this page and the one most likely to be misread, so it is worth being plain: it measures traffic through radio-browser, not audience.

LAist broadcasts in English, which is the language most of the United States' stations in the directory use. The country's listing records six languages in total, so the English stations are the body of the dial rather than the whole of it.

At 192 kbps the stream is on the better side of the United States' dial, where the median is 128 kbps. Not dramatically so, and bitrate is only one of several things that decide whether a stream sounds good, but it is the one the directory records.

The stream is served from laist.streamguys1.com, an address one other entry in the United States uses as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.