iHeart Radio Minivan Rock

iHeart Radio Minivan Rock sits in the tail of the United States' 1,481 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

With one recorded open, iHeart Radio Minivan Rock sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in the United States' list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

At 24 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.

This one is HLS, a segmented format rather than a single continuous stream. It is worth knowing because the failure is specific and fixable rather than a dead station: the address works, the browser just cannot open that shape of address unaided.

177 of the United States' entries are served from stream.revma.ihrhls.com, 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.

Of everything the directory lists in United States, the entry this page reads closest to is WMJJ 96.5 FM Magic 96.5, so it is worth setting out what separates the two. The other entry carries the adult contemporary tag and this one does not. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, iheart.com and magic96.iheart.com.