This page was last updated on July 14 2021
This is a list of radio stations from the Vatican City, comparing audio bitrates for online streams, DAB+, and satellite.
Please contact the site with any corrections or additions to this list.
Audio Information
Joint Stereo – Audio mode in which two channels forming a stereo pair (left and right) are encoded within the one-bit stream and for which stereophonic irrelevance or redundancy is exploited for further bit reduction.
Mono LSF (Low Sampling Frequency) – Low bitrate encoding with halved sampling rate.
HE-AAC (High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding) – More efficient high-quality multichannel and stereo audio codec used with DAB+.
Audio codec: MPEG 1 Layer II
Better than FM quality requires 192-256 kbps
Similar to FM quality requires 160-192 kbps
Acceptable, worse than FM 128-160 kbps
(Based on stereo services)
Audio codec: aacPlus v2
Better than FM quality requires 56-96 kbps
Similar to FM quality requires 40-64 kbps
Acceptable, worse than FM 24-48 kbps
(Based on stereo services)
Public Service Digital Radio Bitrates
This list of digital radio bitrates is provided in good faith, 100% accuracy can not be guaranteed, as changes periodically occur on the various platforms used by Public Service Radio in .
Below are audio bitrate comparisons for the PSB digital radio station, DAB+, Terrstrial and satellite.
Please email any corrections or additional information and have them included.
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| Station | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | Bitrate | Audio | |
| Radio Vaticana Radio Vaticana (Vatican Radio) is the radio station of the Holy See and produces programmes in many different languages, it provides up-to-date information on the activities of Pope and the life of the Church in the world, and on general current affairs. The production goes from single articles with audio-clips and photos, to videonews, podcast, special brodcasting in audio and video streaming live. The Vatican Radio website is available in 38 languages. When no programmes are broadcast many feeds play the Bells at Saint Peter’s Basilica. Website: www.radiovaticana.va For Shortwave reception see: How to listen – Vatican Radio |
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| Radio Vaticana 1 | 64 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Vaticana 2 (Asia & Africa) | 64 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Vaticana 3 (Eastern Europe) | 64 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Vaticana 4 | 64 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Vaticana 5 | 64 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Vaticana 6 | 64 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Vaticana 7 | 64 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Vaticana 8 | 64 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Vaticana 9 | 64 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Vaticana 10 (German) | 64 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Vaticana 11 | 64 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Vaticana Europa | 64 kbps | Stereo | 72 kbps | Stereo | 128 kbps | Stereo | |
| Radio Vaticana World | 64 kbps | Stereo | 72 kbps | Stereo | N/A | N/A | |
| Radio Vaticana 105 | 64 kbps | Stereo | 72 kbps | Stereo | Unknown | Unknown | |
| DMB Vaticano (DAB+) Radio Vaticana broadcasts with a bitrate of 72 kbits DAB+ Stereo HE-AAC v1 |
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| Radio Vaticana on satellite Radio Vaticana Europa is broadcast from Hotbird 13B at 13.0°E (Europe).Radio Vaticana 105 is broadcast on SES 5 at 5.0°E (Sub Saharan Africa) and on Hispasat 30W-5 at 30.0°W (Americas) |
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