成都新闻广播

Set out word by word, 成都 is Chengdu and 新闻广播 is news radio. 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.

This is one of the quieter entries in China's listing, at 312 of 391. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

A news station on a dial where news is one of the commonest tags: 47 entries in China lead with it. The tags are broadcaster-supplied throughout, so read the count as how China's broadcasters describe themselves.

The directory carries no bitrate for 成都新闻广播. 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.

The stream address on this entry points at lhttp-hw.qtfm.cn, which is where 65 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.

Of everything the directory lists in China, the entry this page reads closest to is 天津新闻广播, so it is worth setting out what separates the two. The names say where each one is: this one names Chengdu and the other names Tianjin. This entry records Szechuan as the region it transmits from, and the other records no region at all. The broadcaster tagged this entry news, which the other entry is not tagged with.