Radio Canada Ici Première - Montréal, QC

Broadcasting in French from Canada, alongside 93 other stations there doing the same. English is the country's commonest broadcast language in this directory, so this is the second shelf of a bilingual listing.

The French shelf on this site collects every station in the language regardless of where it transmits from, and the directory's French entries are concentrated in France, Belgium and Switzerland. Reading the shelf next to this page is the quickest way to see how far the language's dial actually reaches.

Radio Canada Ici Première - Montréal, 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.

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 nearest thing to this entry in Canada is 00-Radio Canada Montreal. They are not the same station, and these are the facts the catalogue holds that tell them apart. The broadcaster tagged this entry radio publique, which the other entry is not tagged with. The other entry carries the information and talk & speech tags and this one does not.