105 Miami

In Italy's listing 105 Miami lands at 37 of 400, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

No language is recorded against this station. The field is optional in the public directory and a great many entries skip it, so an empty language says nothing about what you will hear when you press play. It does keep the station off the language shelves, since a shelf built on guesses would be worse than a shelf with holes.

A dance station on a dial where dance is one of the commonest tags: 18 entries in Italy lead with it. The tags are broadcaster-supplied throughout, so read the count as how Italy's broadcasters describe themselves.

Worldwide it ranks 26 among 270 dance entries, which is worth roughly as much as the count behind it and no more.

The stream runs at 128 kbps, level with Italy's median. Bitrate stops being interesting once a station is at the local norm, and the useful question moves on to whether the stream stays up, which no snapshot can answer.

The stream address on this entry points at icy.unitedradio.it, which is where 32 other stations in Italy are served from as well. Platforms of that size carry the long tail of a country's dial, and they are the reason a listing can look broken when it is one host having a quiet hour.