The Wave 105.9 FM

In the United States' ordering this is number 592 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.

The open count against The Wave 105.9 FM is three, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

Three stations in the United States lead with the tag hawaiian, and The Wave 105.9 FM 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.

The gap here is large: 64 kbps where the United States' stations typically run 128. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

The stream is served from pacificmedia.cdnstream1.com, an address four other entries in the United States use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.