臺北電台

Near the top of Taiwan's list, at 3 of 57. Positions this high tend to be stable between snapshots, which is more than can be said for the middle of a long national listing.

At 56 recorded opens, 臺北電台 is one of the streams that people actually reach through the public directory rather than through a station's own app. The count is the whole basis of the ranking on this site, and it is worth knowing that it measures directory traffic specifically.

Only three entries in Taiwan put news first. The tag is self-declared and inconsistent between countries, which is why the rail below is worth more as a way of wandering than as a filter.

Across every country, 臺北電台 is 15 of the 307 stations leading with news, by the same open count the country list uses.

The stream is encoded at 322 kbps, more than twice the 128 kbps median for Taiwan. Bitrate is the one quality figure the public directory carries, and on this entry it is unambiguous.

This one is HLS, a segmented format rather than a single continuous stream. It is worth knowing because the failure is specific and fixable rather than a dead station: the address works, the browser just cannot open that shape of address unaided.