WMJJ 96.5 FM Magic 96.5

WMJJ 96.5 FM Magic 96.5 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.

The open count against WMJJ 96.5 FM Magic 96.5 is one, 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.

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.

The nearest thing to this entry in United States is iHeart Radio Minivan Rock. They are not the same station, and these are the facts the catalogue holds that tell them apart. This entry is named for a number, ninety-six point five, and the other is not. The broadcaster tagged this entry adult contemporary, which the other entry is not tagged with. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, magic96.iheart.com and iheart.com.