The most -- or, only -- fascinating thing about this article is that NPR doesn't compress their stream when sending it out to local stations. Everyone compress

The most -- or, only -- fascinating thing about this article is that NPR doesn't compress their stream when sending it out to local stations. Everyone compresses. Especially in FM radio. And if you know people downstream of you will compress your content, then generally you do it first, so you have control over how it's done. Apparently the NPR way, at least in 2015, was to throw up their hands and give complete control over multiband compression to the local stations, which is kind of interesting.