臺北電台am

臺北電台am ranks 11 among 57 stations in Taiwan. High enough that the country hub carries it in its own tables, and far enough from the head that the neighbours below are a genuinely different set of stations from the famous ones.

臺北電台am is the only station in Taiwan whose first tag is public radio, out of 57 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in Taiwan does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only public radio station.

Across every country, 臺北電台am is 4 of the 30 stations leading with public radio, by the same open count the country list uses.

At 322 kbps, 臺北電台am streams at more than double Taiwan's median of 128 kbps. That is a deliberate choice by whoever runs it: bandwidth is the recurring cost of an internet station, and a rate this far above the local norm is money spent on sounding better than the dial around it.

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.