CBC Radio 1 Toronto

The directory counts 29 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 public radio corner of Canada's dial is two stations deep in this snapshot. Small clusters like that are usually the most rewarding thing on a country page, because they are what the national broadcasters at the top of the list are not.

Across every country, CBC Radio 1 Toronto is 1 of the 30 stations leading with public radio, by the same open count the country list uses.

CBC Radio 1 Toronto 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.