MTV Uutiset

This is one of the quieter entries in Finland's listing, at 59 of 70. 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.

Among 70 stations in Finland here, this is the only one that puts news first. The news rail below therefore leaves the country entirely, which is the more interesting direction to travel from a page like this.

At 500 kbps, MTV Uutiset streams at more than double Finland's median of 128 kbps. That is a deliberate choice by whoever runs it: bandwidth is the recurring cost of an internet station, and a rate this far above the local norm is money spent on sounding better than the dial around it.

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 straight from live.streaming.a2d.tv, an address unique to this entry in Finland's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.