SWR4 is the regional service of Suedwestrundfunk, Germany's public broadcaster for Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate, and this is the Karlsruhe opt-out. The format is Schlager and German-language pop wrapped around regional news, weather and traffic for the Karlsruhe area. The stream is AAC at 96 kbps, a lower number than the MP3 feeds here, but AAC at 96 is roughly comparable to MP3 at 128.
Public-service regional radio, which means actual local news rather than syndicated bulletins. The AAC encoding also makes it one of the more data-efficient streams in the directory.
Read directly from the station's own stream on 20 September 2026, not copied from a listing.
| Name the stream reports | SWR4KA AAC 96 |
|---|---|
| Audio format | AAC |
| Bitrate | 96 kbps |
| Mobile data used | about 42 MB per hour (0.3 GB per 8-hour day) |
| Broadcasting from | Germany |
| Language | German |
| Genres | Pop, Oldies, Schlager |
| Official website | https://www.swr.de/swr4/index.html |
| Last verified | 20 September 2026 |
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