US · United States · 89.7 FM · English
WGBH 89.7
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65 kbps · AAC · Record last changed 4 Oct 2026
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What the directory records
Record last changed 4 Oct 2026
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Format
- AAC
- Stream
- Direct https
- On the dial
- 89.7 FM
- Last catalogue check
- Stream answered
- Broadcaster
- wgbh.org
This is one of the quieter entries in the United States' listing, at 1435 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.
WGBH 89.7 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.
English is the station's language and the country's commonest, one of six the United States' listing records.
The stream is 65 kbps where the United States' median is 128. Below the country's middle, which usually points at an older encoder or a deliberate choice to stay light, and matters far more for music than for talk.
Encoded as AAC, one of the three formats the United States' stations use. The country page breaks all of them out with counts.
Its audio comes straight from streams.audio.wgbh.org, 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.
These are counts of what people did inside the public radio-browser catalogue and the apps that read it, over the whole life of the entry. They are not our own figures and they are not an audience measurement: most entries in this catalogue sit under five all-time plays, so a small number here means the catalogue has little to say about this station rather than that nobody listens to it.
Broadcast by WGBH 89.7. Stream served directly by the broadcaster. Their own site is at wgbh.org.
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