CA · Ontario · English
680 News Toronto
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48 kbps · AAC+ · Record last changed 4 Oct 2026
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What the directory records
Record last changed 4 Oct 2026
- Country
- Canada
- Language
- English
- Format
- AAC+
- Stream
- HLS playlist
- Last catalogue check
- Stream answered
- Broadcaster
- 680news.com
Out of 259 entries in Canada, this one ranks 19. 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.
The directory counts 22 opens against this stream. That is well above Canada's median and it is the reason the station sits where it does on the country list, since the ordering is the count and nothing else.
The gap here is large: 48 kbps where Canada's stations typically run 96. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.
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 stream address on this entry points at rogers-hls.leanstream.co, which is where 12 other stations in Canada are served from as well. Platforms of that size carry the long tail of a country's dial, and they are the reason a listing can look broken when it is one host having a quiet hour.
680 News Toronto and CBC Radio 1 Vancouver are described by the directory in very nearly the same fields, which makes the differences between them worth stating rather than leaving to be inferred. The number each one is named for is the difference between them: six hundred and eighty here and one there. They are filed in different parts of the country: this one under Ontario, that one under British Columbia. The two streams are served from different addresses, rogers-hls.leanstream.co for this one and cbcradiolive.akamaized.net for the other. This one is encoded as AAC+ and that one as AAC, which is a difference a browser can hear about before you can. The other entry carries the news and public radio tags and this one does not. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, 680news.com and cbc.ca.
- City or region
- Ontario
- Country
- Canada
680 News Toronto is one of 817 playable stations the catalogue lists in Canada, and one of the smaller number that say where in the country they transmit from.
These are counts of what people did inside the public radio-browser catalogue and the apps that read it, over the whole life of the entry. They are not our own figures and they are not an audience measurement: most entries in this catalogue sit under five all-time plays, so a small number here means the catalogue has little to say about this station rather than that nobody listens to it.
Broadcast by 680 News Toronto. Stream served directly by the broadcaster. Their own site is at www.680news.com.
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