星空电台 Star Radio

Out of 391 entries in China, this one ranks 35. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

星空电台 Star Radio broadcasts in Cantonese from China. That is a minority language on the national dial, where Chinese leads, but not a small one: 34 stations in China in the directory carry Cantonese, which is a substantial second listing inside the first.

Cantonese radio in this directory sits largely in Hong Kong SAR China, Australia and Macao SAR China, with 65 stations on the shelf in total. This page's station is one of the entries that make the shelf wider than any single country.

The directory carries no bitrate for 星空电台 Star Radio. The field is filled from what the stream's own server reports when it is scanned, so an empty one usually means a server that answers without announcing itself rather than a bad stream. China's stations that do report come in at a median of 128 kbps, for whatever that is worth as a guess.

66 of China's entries are served from lhttp-hw.qtfm.cn, this one among them. A shared host means a shared fate. If this stream is silent, the fastest check is not this station's own site but whether its neighbours on the same platform are playing.