CJNS-FM 102.3 Meadow Lake, SK

This is one of the quieter entries in Canada's listing, at 230 of 259. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

CJNS-FM 102.3 Meadow Lake, SK has a zero in the directory's open count. It is the least interesting number on this page and the one most likely to be misread, so it is worth being plain: it measures traffic through radio-browser, not audience.

CJNS-FM 102.3 Meadow Lake, SK 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.

Of everything the directory lists in Canada, the entry this page reads closest to is CJXX-FM "Big Country 93.1" Grand Prairie, AB, so it is worth setting out what separates the two. The number each one is named for is the difference between them: one hundred and two point three here and ninety-three point one there. They are filed in different parts of the country: this one under Saskatchewan, that one under Alberta. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, meadowlakenow.com and bigcountry931.ca.