CA · British Columbia
CBC Radio 1 Vancouver
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- news
- public radio
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
- Not stated
- Format
- AAC
- Stream
- HLS playlist
- Last catalogue check
- Stream answered
- Broadcaster
- cbc.ca
Out of 259 entries in Canada, this one ranks 25. 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.
Only three entries in Canada put news 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.
On the same tag worldwide it is 52 of 307, which is inside the top quarter of every news station the directory carries.
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.
12 of Canada's entries are served from cbcradiolive.akamaized.net, this one among them. A shared host means a shared fate. If this stream is silent, the fastest check is not this station's own site but whether its neighbours on the same platform are playing.
Of everything the directory lists in Canada, the entry this page reads closest to is 680 News Toronto, so it is worth setting out what separates the two. The number each one is named for is the difference between them: one here and six hundred and eighty there. They are filed in different parts of the country: this one under British Columbia, that one under Ontario. The two streams are served from different addresses, cbcradiolive.akamaized.net for this one and rogers-hls.leanstream.co 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 broadcaster tagged this entry news and public radio, which the other entry is not tagged with. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, cbc.ca and 680news.com.
- City or region
- British Columbia
- Country
- Canada
CBC Radio 1 Vancouver 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 CBC Radio 1 Vancouver. Stream served directly by the broadcaster. Their own site is at www.cbc.ca.
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