93.3 The Beat

93.3 The Beat is one of five entries in the United States sharing a name and differing by a number, and this one carries ninety-three point three. That number is the only thing in the name that separates it from the rest of the set.

At position 1212 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.

93.3 The Beat 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.

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.

The nearest thing to this entry in United States is 94.1 The Beat. They are not the same station, and these are the facts the catalogue holds that tell them apart. The number each one is named for is the difference between them: ninety-three point three here and ninety-four point one there. They are filed in different parts of the country: this one under Callahan FL, that one under Savannah GA. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, wjbt.iheart.com and 941thebeat.iheart.com.