WALM HD

Out of 1,481 entries in the United States, this one ranks 9. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

WALM HD carries 187 recorded opens in the public directory, which puts it among the small group of streams that directory clients open constantly. Counts at this level are rare: the great majority of the 14,425 stations with pages here are in single or double figures.

Christian is one of the United States' headline genres in this directory, and WALM HD is one of 34 stations there leading with it. The country hub prints the same tag near the top of its own list, so this station sits inside the country's main sound rather than off to one side.

Worldwide it ranks 2 among 103 christian entries, which is worth roughly as much as the count behind it and no more.

320 kbps against the United States' median of 128. Streams at this rate are the ones worth finding a good pair of headphones for, and they are uncommon: 49% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps at all.

11 of the United States' entries are served from icecast.walmradio.com:8443, this one among them. A shared host means a shared fate. If this stream is silent, the fastest check is not this station's own site but whether its neighbours on the same platform are playing.