Wiod

Wiod is at 457 in a listing of 1,481. Read the rank as a rough position rather than a standing: the click counts in the middle of a long national list are close enough together that a handful of opens moves a station several places.

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.

Wiod publishes an HLS stream. That is a modern and perfectly good way to broadcast, and it is also why the button on this page may not start it: HLS needs a player that can read a playlist and fetch segments, which a browser audio tag does not do on its own.

The audio comes from stream.revma.ihrhls.com, and 176 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.

The nearest thing to this entry in United States is Iheart Kids Hits. They are not the same station, and these are the facts the catalogue holds that tell them apart. This entry records Florida as the region it transmits from, and the other records no region at all. The other entry carries the iheart radio and kids tags and this one does not. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, stream.revma.ihrhls.com and iheart.com.