ABC NewsRadio

Out of 140 entries in Australia, this one ranks 15. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

Nothing else in Australia's listing leads with national news. The tag is self-declared, which makes it a statement of how the broadcaster positions itself rather than a classification anyone audited, and on this dial that statement is unique.

The stream is served as an HLS playlist, which is the format broadcasters use to switch bitrates on the fly and the one a plain browser audio element will not open. Nothing is wrong with the station; the player on this page simply cannot follow that kind of link without a library. The extension carries one and handles it.

The audio comes from streaming.abc-cdn.net.au, and 7 other stations in Australia 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 Australia's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.

The nearest thing to this entry in Australia is 102.5 ABC Perth. They are not the same station, and these are the facts the catalogue holds that tell them apart. They are filed in different parts of the country: this one under New South Wales, that one under Western Australia. The broadcaster tagged this entry national news, national radio, sports news and weather, which the other entry is not tagged with. The other entry carries the local, local information, local news, local radio, local talk and news talk tags and this one does not.