105.9 The Brew

Among the 1,481 stations in the United States with pages, 105.9 The Brew is around the halfway mark. Anything in this stretch is reachable from the country's numbered pages rather than from its front table, which is why those pages exist.

The country page counts rock among its commonest tags, and this station is one of the 17 entries in the United States behind that count. Worldwide the tag leads 148 stations, which makes the rail below a very wide shelf.

The directory carries no bitrate for 105.9 The Brew. The field is filled from what the stream's own server reports when it is scanned, so an empty one usually means a server that answers without announcing itself rather than a bad stream. the United States' stations that do report come in at a median of 128 kbps, for whatever that is worth as a guess.

The audio comes from stream.revma.ihrhls.com, and 176 other stations in the United States are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of the United States' listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.

105.9 The Brew and Q102 - WIOQ-FM 102.1 Philladelphia are described by the directory in very nearly the same fields, which makes the differences between them worth stating rather than leaving to be inferred. The number each one is named for is the difference between them: one hundred and five point nine here and one hundred and two point one there. They are filed in different parts of the country: this one under Vancouver WA, that one under Philadelphia PA. The broadcaster tagged this entry rock, which the other entry is not tagged with. The other entry carries the pop and top 40 tags and this one does not. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, 1059thebrew.iheart.com and q102.iheart.com.