周口综合广播

Read as words rather than as a brand, the name says general broadcasting. That is the broadcaster's own description of the service, written in Chinese characters, and it is more specific than the tags the entry carries.

In China's ordering this is number 214 of 391, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

Nothing else in China's listing leads with 96.0. The tag is self-declared, which makes it a statement of how the broadcaster positions itself rather than a classification anyone audited, and on this dial that statement is unique.

The directory carries no bitrate for 周口综合广播. 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.

90 of China's entries are served from lhttp.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.

Of everything the directory lists in China, the entry this page reads closest to is 涿州综合广播年代音乐959, so it is worth setting out what separates the two. Read as words rather than as a brand, this name says general broadcasting and that one says general broadcasting and music. They are filed in different parts of the country: this one under Honan, that one under Beijing. The broadcaster tagged this entry 96.0, 96.0 fm, entertainment, information, news, pop and talk, which the other entry is not tagged with. The other entry carries the 95.9, 95.9 fm and oldies tags and this one does not.