This site is one of Radio Ink's top ten radio station sites, and browsing around it for a short while will quickly show you why. This somewhat heavy but still very well-done site has most if not all of the features we'd expect from a fully-stocked web site, and very little of the fluff.

The site can actually seem a bit crowded at first, but in general things are very well laid out. A row of large buttons across the top will take users to the most important parts of the site: the schedules, the playlists (which are archived and nicely arranged using a calander system), a page with contest information, and so on. Most of the pages sport a side panel that can lead you to almost anywhere on the site, or, in case of the traffic and weather reports, to another relavant site (which opens in a new browser window).

The site is very well laid out for another, less visible reason: despite the use of somewhat sophisticated layouts and javascript rollovers, the pages render perfectly across all the browsers I tried it on, including Netscape 6 and the open-source Mozilla. This is surprizingly rare: given the huge market-share that Microsoft's Internet Explorer has taken nowadays, web designers are starting to pay less and less attention to making the site cross-browser compatible. That the site renders well across platforms is a good indication that it is carefully done.

WRR itself has been around for a while -- 1921 to be exact, and claim to be "the first radio station in Texas." It seems to have aged well, and are possibly playing the exact same music they started out playing. The playlist isn't at all bad for a classical station, though it certainly stays on the conservative side, tending to stay with the mostly-familiar and generally not playing peices written by the living.

The stream itself is handled by Yahoo! broadcast, and while it isn't presented in a terribly high bandwidth (it can be streamed over a modem), it doesn't sound bad on typical computer speakers. There were frequent long silences in the stream, however, which I can only assume is due to the removal of advertisements from the stream.

Any minor gripes about the station are hardly worth mentioning in a short space. If you're a fan of classical music, both the station and the site are worth checking out.