Sport Nation - AAC

This is one of the quieter entries in New Zealand's listing, at 66 of 67. 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.

No opens have been recorded against Sport Nation - AAC in the public directory. Plenty of working stations sit at zero, because the count only rises when somebody plays the stream from a client that reports back, and most listening never touches the directory at all.

Sports is the station's own leading tag and no other entry in New Zealand uses it that way. Worth reading as self-description: the directory takes tags as broadcasters type them and does not reconcile them.

At 66 kbps, this sits below most of New Zealand's listing, whose median is 128 kbps. 68% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better, so the dial around it is mostly higher.

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.