WUWM 89.7 Milwaukee's NPR

WUWM 89.7 Milwaukee's NPR sits at 605 of 1,481 in the United States' listing, in the body of the list rather than at either end. This is where most of a national dial actually lives, and it is the part a country hub's first fifty rows never reach.

The open count against WUWM 89.7 Milwaukee's NPR is three, 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.

WUWM 89.7 Milwaukee's NPR leads with news, a tag 48 other stations in the United States use and one the country hub lists among its headline genres. If the country's sound is what brought you here, this is squarely part of it.

The gap here is large: 48 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 straight from tundracast.stream:3040, 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.