CJCL Sportsnet 590 The Fan

In Canada's listing CJCL Sportsnet 590 The Fan lands at 59 of 259, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

Nothing else in Canada's listing leads with sports. The tag is self-declared, which makes it a statement of how the broadcaster positions itself rather than a classification anyone audited, and on this dial that statement is unique.

Across every country, CJCL Sportsnet 590 The Fan is 7 of the 32 stations leading with sports, by the same open count the country list uses.

The gap here is large: 48 kbps where Canada's stations typically run 96. 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.

This one is HLS, a segmented format rather than a single continuous stream. It is worth knowing because the failure is specific and fixable rather than a dead station: the address works, the browser just cannot open that shape of address unaided.

13 of Canada's entries are served from rogers-hls.leanstream.co, 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.

Of everything the directory lists in Canada, the entry this page reads closest to is CHFI 98.1-Toronto, so it is worth setting out what separates the two. The number each one is named for is the difference between them: five hundred and ninety here and ninety-eight point one there. The broadcaster tagged this entry sports, talk and toronto, which the other entry is not tagged with. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, sportsnet.ca and chfi.com.