99.1 The Ranch

99.1 The Ranch ranks 371 among 1,481 stations in the United States. High enough that the country hub carries it in its own tables, and far enough from the head that the neighbours below are a genuinely different set of stations from the famous ones.

The country page counts country among its commonest tags, and this station is one of the 30 entries in the United States behind that count. Worldwide the tag leads 80 stations, which makes the rail below a very wide shelf.

Worldwide it ranks 20 among 80 country entries, which is worth roughly as much as the count behind it and no more.

99.1 The Ranch 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.

9 of the United States' entries are served from ice9.securenetsystems.net, this one among them. A shared host means a shared fate. If this stream is silent, the fastest check is not this station's own site but whether its neighbours on the same platform are playing.