Coast 103, relax, unwind, KLO, Salt Lake City, Utah

In the United States' ordering this is number 514 of 1,481, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

Two stations in the United States lead with the tag soft rock, and Coast 103, relax, unwind, KLO, Salt Lake City, Utah is one of them. That is a small enough group to hear end to end, and the tags are the broadcasters' own words rather than a classification imposed here.

Coast 103, relax, unwind, KLO, Salt Lake City, Utah streams at 64 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 straight from das-edge29-sa27-lax02.cdnstream.com, an address unique to this entry in the United States' listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.