00-Radio Canada Montreal

Broadcasting in French from Canada, alongside 93 other stations there doing the same. English is the country's commonest broadcast language in this directory, so this is the second shelf of a bilingual listing.

Where else French is on air, according to the same snapshot: mostly France, Belgium and Switzerland. The shelf lists all 1,384 of them together, which is the view a country hub cannot give.

Only two entries in Canada put information first. The tag is self-declared and inconsistent between countries, which is why the rail below is worth more as a way of wandering than as a filter.

00-Radio Canada Montreal streams at 48 kbps against Canada's median of 96, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 46% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

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.