国际新闻

国际新闻 says news and international in Chinese characters. A name that describes its own programming is worth reading rather than skipping, because it is a fact stated by the broadcaster rather than a tag added by whoever filed the entry into China's listing.

Out of 391 entries in China, this one ranks 4. 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.

The open count here is 109, a figure only a few hundred stations in the whole directory reach. It is a fair signal that the stream is reliable as well as popular, because a dead stream stops accumulating opens quickly once clients start failing on it.

A information station on a dial where information is one of the commonest tags: 19 entries in China lead with it. The tags are broadcaster-supplied throughout, so read the count as how China's broadcasters describe themselves.

Worldwide it ranks 1 among 74 information entries, which is worth roughly as much as the count behind it and no more.

The stream address on this entry points at lhttp.qtfm.cn, which is where 89 other stations in China are served from as well. Platforms of that size carry the long tail of a country's dial, and they are the reason a listing can look broken when it is one host having a quiet hour.