CNR-3

This is one of the quieter entries in China's listing, at 262 of 391. 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.

With one recorded open, CNR-3 sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in China's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

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.

Its audio comes from ngcdn001.cnr.cn. Two other stations in China stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.

CNR-3 and 经济之声 are described by the directory in very nearly the same fields, which makes the differences between them worth stating rather than leaving to be inferred. This entry is named for a number, three, and the other is not. The two streams are served from different addresses, ngcdn001.cnr.cn for this one and ngcdn002.cnr.cn for the other. The broadcaster tagged this entry economics, which the other entry is not tagged with.