WCPT 820 AM Willow Springs, IL

WCPT 820 AM Willow Springs, IL is at 596 in a listing of 1,481. Read the rank as a rough position rather than a standing: the click counts in the middle of a long national list are close enough together that a handful of opens moves a station several places.

Among 1,481 stations in the United States here, this is the only one that puts progressive talk first. The progressive talk rail below therefore leaves the country entirely, which is the more interesting direction to travel from a page like this.

WCPT 820 AM Willow Springs, IL streams at 64 kbps against the United States' median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 49% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

The audio comes from playerservices.streamtheworld.com, and 53 other stations in the United States are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of the United States' listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.