黑龙江交通广播

黑龙江交通广播 is a description rather than a brand. The name names a place, Heilongjiang, and then what the station is for, traffic radio. The directory keeps it in Chinese characters because that is how the broadcaster writes it, and the reading above is what those words say in English.

Rank 345 of 391 in China. What that mostly measures is how many people have already found the station through this directory, which is a poor proxy for anything else and an honest one to publish.

The traffic information corner of China's dial is two stations deep in this snapshot. Small clusters like that are usually the most rewarding thing on a country page, because they are what the national broadcasters at the top of the list are not.

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 audio comes from lhttp-hw.qtfm.cn, and 65 other stations in China are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of China's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.