HITZ 104.9

HITZ 104.9 shares its leading tag, pop music, with two other United States entries. Across every country the directory has 47 stations leading with it, so the rail below is mostly a trip abroad.

At 48 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on the United States' dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

The stream is served as an HLS playlist, which is the format broadcasters use to switch bitrates on the fly and the one a plain browser audio element will not open. Nothing is wrong with the station; the player on this page simply cannot follow that kind of link without a library. The extension carries one and handles it.

The audio comes from live.amperwave.net, and 21 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.

HITZ 104.9 and WLW - 700 AM - Cincinnati, OH 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 four point nine here and seven hundred there. They are filed in different parts of the country: this one under California, that one under Ohio. The two streams are served from different addresses, live.amperwave.net for this one and stream.revma.ihrhls.com for the other. The directory puts this stream at forty-eight kilobits and the other at twenty-four. The broadcaster tagged this entry pop music, top 40 and top hits, which the other entry is not tagged with. The other entry carries the news, right winger and talk tags and this one does not.