Itatiaia FM 105.3 MHz (Juiz de Fora/MG)

Itatiaia FM 105.3 MHz (Juiz de Fora/MG) sits in the tail of Brazil's 430 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.

With one recorded open, Itatiaia FM 105.3 MHz (Juiz de Fora/MG) sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Brazil's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

The gap here is large: 64 kbps where Brazil's stations typically run 128. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

Encoded as AAC, one of the three formats Brazil's stations use. The country page breaks all of them out with counts.

The stream is served from 8372.brasilstream.com.br, which no other entry in Brazil uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.

The broadcaster publishes at itatiaia.com.br, on Brazil'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.