105.1 Rhema Wide Bay

105.1 Rhema Wide Bay sits in the tail of Australia's 140 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

No opens have been recorded against 105.1 Rhema Wide Bay in the public directory. Plenty of working stations sit at zero, because the count only rises when somebody plays the stream from a client that reports back, and most listening never touches the directory at all.

105.1 Rhema Wide Bay streams at 64 kbps against Australia's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 50% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

The station's own site is rhema.fm. The .fm domain has nothing to do with FM radio or with where a station is: it belongs to the Federated States of Micronesia and has been sold to broadcasters worldwide for years, so read it as branding rather than as a location.