ICI Radio-Canada Première Montréal

At 25 recorded opens, ICI Radio-Canada Première Montréal is one of the streams that people actually reach through the public directory rather than through a station's own app. The count is the whole basis of the ranking on this site, and it is worth knowing that it measures directory traffic specifically.

The news corner of Canada's dial is three 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, ICI Radio-Canada Première Montréal is 37 of the 307 stations leading with news, by the same open count the country list uses.

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 audio comes from rcavliveaudio.akamaized.net, and 10 other stations in Canada are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of Canada's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.