WSRB 106.3 FM Chicago's R&B - Lansing, IL

In the United States' ordering this is number 463 of 1,481, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

The open count against WSRB 106.3 FM Chicago's R&B - Lansing, IL is four, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

Rap hiphop rnb is the station's own leading tag and no other entry in the United States uses it that way. Worth reading as self-description: the directory takes tags as broadcasters type them and does not reconcile them.

The gap here is large: 64 kbps where the United States' stations typically run 128. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

Its audio comes from ais-sa8.cdnstream1.com. Five other stations in the United States stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.