CCTV-2财经伴音

Position 33 of 391 in China. The ordering is a click count and nothing more, but at this depth it still separates stations meaningfully, which stops being true further down the same list.

No bitrate is recorded against this stream. It is a common gap: the value is scraped from the stream's headers and plenty of servers do not send them. Press play and your browser will tell you more in two seconds than the field would have.

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 piccpndali.v.myalicdn.com, and 34 other stations in China 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 China's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.

Of everything the directory lists in China, the entry this page reads closest to is CCTV-11戏曲伴音, so it is worth setting out what separates the two. Read as words rather than as a brand, this name says finance and the audio feed and that one says opera and the audio feed. The number each one is named for is the difference between them: two here and eleven there. The broadcaster tagged this entry tv, which the other entry is not tagged with. The other entry carries the opera tag and this one does not. On recorded opens this entry sits higher in the country list than the other one does.