630 CHED

Out of 259 entries in Canada, 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.

630 CHED has 28 recorded opens in the public directory, which is a real number by the standards of this data set. Most entries never reach double figures, so a count at this level means the stream has been found and played repeatedly by people using directory clients rather than the broadcaster's own site.

Hockey is the station's own leading tag and no other entry in Canada uses it that way. Worth reading as self-description: the directory takes tags as broadcasters type them and does not reconcile them.

The encode is 128 kbps against a country median of 96. Comfortably above the middle of Canada's listing without being one of its outliers.

The stream is served from corus.leanstream.co, an address one other entry in Canada uses as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.

The broadcaster publishes at globalnews.ca, on Canada's own country domain. A national domain is a small piece of evidence that the station is what the directory says it is, since these are the harder ones to register from somewhere else.