经济之声

Read as words rather than as a brand, the name says the voice of and business. 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 185 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.

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 ngcdn002.cnr.cn. One other station in China streams from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.

经济之声 and CNR-3 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. The two streams are served from different addresses, ngcdn002.cnr.cn for this one and ngcdn001.cnr.cn for the other. The other entry carries the economics tag and this one does not. On recorded opens this entry sits higher in the country list than the other one does. Listeners have left two hundred and sixty-four votes against this entry in the catalogue and sixty-six against the other.