KBEAR 101 - Idaho's Only Rock Station (KCVI)

Position 538 of 1,481 puts this station in the middle of the United States' directory presence. The middle is worth browsing precisely because the ordering has stopped sorting by fame and has not yet stopped sorting at all.

KBEAR 101 - Idaho's Only Rock Station (KCVI) leads with rock, a tag 17 other stations in the United States use and one the country hub lists among its headline genres. If the country's sound is what brought you here, this is squarely part of it.

At 32 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 audio comes from ice9.securenetsystems.net, and 8 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.

Their address is kbear.fm. A .fm address says the broadcaster wanted a radio sounding domain, not that the station is in Micronesia, which is where that domain actually comes from.