郑州经典音乐广播

Set out word by word, 郑州 is Zhengzhou, 音乐广播 is music radio and 经典 is classic. That is the whole of the name, and it means the heading on this page is doing the work a genre tag usually has to do elsewhere in China.

郑州经典音乐广播 sits in the tail of China's 391 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

郑州经典音乐广播 is the only station in China whose first tag is 107.9, out of 391 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in China does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only 107.9 station.

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.

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.

The nearest thing to this entry in China is 南安市广播电视台综合广播. They are not the same station, and these are the facts the catalogue holds that tell them apart. This entry's name carries a place in it, Zhengzhou, where the other's does not. Read as words rather than as a brand, this name says music radio and classic and that one says general broadcasting, television station and broadcasting. They are filed in different parts of the country: this one under Honan, that one under Fukien. The broadcaster tagged this entry 107.9, 107.9 fm and oldies, which the other entry is not tagged with.