Rebel 99.4 Gold Coast

Position 29 of 140 in Australia. The ordering is a click count and nothing more, but at this depth it still separates stations meaningfully, which stops being true further down the same list.

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Rebel 99.4 Gold Coast 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.

AAC here, on a dial that carries three different formats. A mixed codec listing usually means a country whose stations are hosted in several different places rather than through one dominant provider.

Its audio comes from s8.yesstreaming.net:17099. Two other stations in Australia stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.

The broadcaster publishes at rebelfm.com.au, on Australia's own country domain. A national domain is a small piece of evidence that the station is what the directory says it is, since these are the harder ones to register from somewhere else.