WAMU American University Radio

Out of 1,481 entries in the United States, this one ranks 30. 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.

At 48 recorded opens, WAMU American University Radio is one of the streams that people actually reach through the public directory rather than through a station's own app. The count is the whole basis of the ranking on this site, and it is worth knowing that it measures directory traffic specifically.

A news station on a dial where news is one of the commonest tags: 48 entries in the United States lead with it. The tags are broadcaster-supplied throughout, so read the count as how the United States' broadcasters describe themselves.

Worldwide it ranks 18 among 307 news entries, which is worth roughly as much as the count behind it and no more.

At 96 kbps, this sits below most of the United States' listing, whose median is 128 kbps. 49% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better, so the dial around it is mostly higher.

Its audio comes straight from wamu.cdnstream1.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.