TVN Radio

TVN Radio is at 8 in a listing of 20. 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.

The open count against TVN Radio is two, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

The encode is 214 kbps against a country median of 128. Comfortably above the middle of Panama's listing without being one of its outliers.

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 mdstrm.com, an address unique to this entry in Panama'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.