CIUT 89.5FM

In Canada's ordering this is number 95 of 259, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

The open count against CIUT 89.5FM is three, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

CIUT 89.5FM streams at 32 kbps against Canada's median of 96, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 46% 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.

Its audio comes straight from ice23.securenetsystems.net, 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.

Their address is ciut.fm. A .fm address says the broadcaster wanted a radio sounding domain, not that the station is in Micronesia, which is where that domain actually comes from.