WSFM 101.7

WSFM 101.7 is deep in Australia's listing, at 140 of 140. Down here the ordering barely orders anything: the difference between one position and the next is often a single recorded open, so treat the neighbours below as a shelf rather than as a ranking.

No opens have been recorded against WSFM 101.7 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.

4 stations in Australia lead with classic hits and WSFM 101.7 is one of them, though the tag does not make the country's headline list. Across the whole directory 61 stations use it first, so the rail below runs well past Australia.

WSFM 101.7 streams at 48 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.

8 of Australia's entries are served from ais-arn.streamguys1.com, this one among them. A shared host means a shared fate. If this stream is silent, the fastest check is not this station's own site but whether its neighbours on the same platform are playing.