Z103 - Idaho's #1 Hit Music Channel (KFTZ)

This is one of the quieter entries in the United States' listing, at 1170 of 1,481. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

Three stations in the United States lead with the tag chr, and Z103 - Idaho's #1 Hit Music Channel (KFTZ) 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.

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.

Its audio comes from ice41.securenetsystems.net. Six other stations in the United States stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.

The station's own site is z103.fm. The .fm domain has nothing to do with FM radio or with where a station is: it belongs to the Federated States of Micronesia and has been sold to broadcasters worldwide for years, so read it as branding rather than as a location.