香港電台第四台

The name begins with a place. Hong Kong is what it names, which is the part a listener in Hong Kong SAR China would use to pick this entry out of a list of neighbours with otherwise similar names. The heading keeps the broadcaster's own spelling, in Chinese characters.

Out of 48 entries in Hong Kong SAR China, this one ranks 12. 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 directory carries no bitrate for 香港電台第四台. 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. Hong Kong SAR China's stations that do report come in at a median of 70 kbps, for whatever that is worth as a guess.

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.

The stream is served from rthkradio4-live.akamaized.net, an address one other entry in Hong Kong SAR China uses as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.