RTHK Radio 1

The directory lists six streams in Hong Kong SAR China under this name, told apart by a number alone. This page is number one. Nothing here is taken from the other five.

RTHK Radio 1 is at 15 in a listing of 48. Read the rank as a rough position rather than a standing: the click counts in the middle of a long national list are close enough together that a handful of opens moves a station several places.

A information station on a dial where information is one of the commonest tags: 5 entries in Hong Kong SAR China lead with it. The tags are broadcaster-supplied throughout, so read the count as how Hong Kong SAR China's broadcasters describe themselves.

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 rthkaudio1-lh.akamaihd.net, an address unique to this entry in Hong Kong SAR China'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.