105.3 The Bear

Out of 1,481 entries in the United States, this one ranks 360. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

Four recorded opens in the public directory. That is a trace rather than a measurement, and it is the reason this page describes where the station sits rather than how popular it is.

A rock station on a dial where rock is one of the commonest tags: 17 entries in the United States lead with it. The tags are broadcaster-supplied throughout, so read the count as how the United States' broadcasters describe themselves.

105.3 The Bear streams at 32 kbps against the United States' median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 49% 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 from ice26.securenetsystems.net. Two other stations in the United States stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.