CBS 표준FM 98.1

In South Korea's ordering this is number 17 of 58, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

No language is recorded against this station. The field is optional in the public directory and a great many entries skip it, so an empty language says nothing about what you will hear when you press play. It does keep the station off the language shelves, since a shelf built on guesses would be worse than a shelf with holes.

The stream is 96 kbps where South Korea's median is 128. Below the country's middle, which usually points at an older encoder or a deliberate choice to stay light, and matters far more for music than for talk.

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 m-aac.cbs.co.kr, an address three other entries in South Korea use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.

CBS 표준FM 98.1 and CBS 음악FM are described by the directory in very nearly the same fields, which makes the differences between them worth stating rather than leaving to be inferred. This entry is named for a number, ninety-eight point one, and the other is not. This entry records Seoul as the region it transmits from, and the other records no region at all.