Alternative Rock Variety

Alternative Rock Variety sits at 147 of 259 in Canada's listing, in the body of the list rather than at either end. This is where most of a national dial actually lives, and it is the part a country hub's first fifty rows never reach.

With one recorded open, Alternative Rock Variety sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Canada's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

Alternative Rock Variety has no language recorded in the directory. We do not infer one. Guessing from the country would put every station in Canada on the same shelf regardless of what it broadcasts, which is exactly the kind of filled-in blank that makes a directory untrustworthy.

The encode is 128 kbps against a country median of 96. Comfortably above the middle of Canada's listing without being one of its outliers.

Alternative Rock Variety publishes an HLS stream. That is a modern and perfectly good way to broadcast, and it is also why the button on this page may not start it: HLS needs a player that can read a playlist and fetch segments, which a browser audio tag does not do on its own.

Its audio comes straight from streaming.live365.com, an address unique to this entry in Canada's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.