100.3 The Edge

100.3 The Edge is one of two entries in the United States sharing a name and differing by a number, and this one carries one hundred point three. That number is the only thing in the name that separates it from the rest of the set.

At position 1179 of 1,481, this is one of the stations in the United States that almost nobody arrives at by browsing. That is the case for having a page at all. A station reachable only by knowing its name is a station most directories lose.

100.3 The Edge has a zero in the directory's open count. It is the least interesting number on this page and the one most likely to be misread, so it is worth being plain: it measures traffic through radio-browser, not audience.

At 24 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on the United States' dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

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.

The nearest thing to this entry in United States is iHeart Indie Radio. They are not the same station, and these are the facts the catalogue holds that tell them apart. This entry is named for a number, one hundred point three, and the other is not. This entry records AR as the region it transmits from, and the other records no region at all. The broadcaster tagged this entry rock, which the other entry is not tagged with. The other entry carries the indie electronic, indie pop and indie rock tags and this one does not. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, edgelittlerock.iheart.com and iheart.com.