CHIR FM Gulf Islands Community Radio

In Canada's ordering this is number 122 of 259, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

CHIR FM Gulf Islands Community Radio is the only station in Canada whose first tag is canada, out of 259 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in Canada does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only canada station.

The stream is encoded at 192 kbps, more than twice the 96 kbps median for Canada. Bitrate is the one quality figure the public directory carries, and on this entry it is unambiguous.

Its audio comes straight from stream-02.aiir.com, an address unique to this entry in Canada's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.

Their address is chir.fm. A .fm address says the broadcaster wanted a radio sounding domain, not that the station is in Micronesia, which is where that domain actually comes from.