Radio Canada Ici Musique - Québec City, QC

The country's dial has two sizeable languages on it and this station is on the smaller one. 94 entries in Canada broadcast in French, against a listing whose commonest language is English.

Where else French is on air, according to the same snapshot: mostly France, Belgium and Switzerland. The shelf lists all 1,384 of them together, which is the view a country hub cannot give.

Radio Canada Ici Musique - Québec City, QC 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.

This one is HLS, a segmented format rather than a single continuous stream. It is worth knowing because the failure is specific and fixable rather than a dead station: the address works, the browser just cannot open that shape of address unaided.

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.