Are there any restrictions on tourists taking radio's into China? Otherwise, I'd not take one and buy one of the rather cool higher end ones that we get on Amazon for about 3 times what they cost in China. Be prepared for instructions to be totally in Chinese, but you can get an English manual online.
Hey David, I’m not sure what the rules are about bringing a radio into the country. I didn’t try it, just to be safe. Luckily, I have access to some other (local) radios while I am here, and I might even be able to buy one! Let me do some research to figure out where I could get one.
Late to the party here, but I can add a little bit about these stations. 87.9 Hit FM is operated as a domestic English-speaking station by CRI, the familiar Chinese international broadcaster. 107.7 is CNR-3 "Music Radio", a pop station from the Chinese national state broadcaster. Both of these operate in multiple Chinese cities. I'm not familiar with 103.7, but it seems to be listed as "Love Radio" and run by the local Shanghai city, as is 101.7.
| 87.9 | HIT FM |
| 88.2 | Jiaxing Music Radio |
| 88.7 | Chongming People's Broadcasting Station |
| 89.9 | 899 Urban Radio |
| 90.4 | Ningbo Old and Young Radio |
| 90.9 | Dongguan News Channel |
| 91.4 | China National Radio Economic Voice |
| 92.0 | Ningbo News Broadcasting |
| 92.2 | Jiaxing Traffic Broadcasting |
| 93.0 | Zhejiang Traffic Voice |
| 93.4 | Shanghai News Broadcasting |
| 94.0 | Five Star Sports Radio |
| 94.7 | Classical Music Radio |
| 95.3 | Jiangsu News Broadcasting |
| 95.5 | China Traffic Radio |
| 95.9 | Fengxian Radio Station |
| 96.2 | Baoshan Radio Station |
| 97.2 | Shanghai Drama and Opera Broadcasting |
| 97.4 | Voice of Zhejiang |
| 97.7 | First Financial Radio |
| 98.1 | KFM98.1 |
| 98.6 | Ningbo Music Radio |
| 99.0 | China National Radio Voice of China |
| 100.1 | Pudong Radio 100.1 Boiling Point Music |
| 100.3 | Jiading Radio Station |
| 100.9 | Songjiang Radio Station |
| 101.7 | Dynamic 101 |
| 102.5 | CRI Global Information Broadcasting |
| 102.7 | Minhang Radio Station |
| 103.7 | Love Radio |
| 104.1 | Jiaxing Traffic Broadcasting |
| 104.5 | Zhejiang female anchor radio |
| 105.1 | Jinshan Radio |
| 105.7 | Shanghai Traffic Radio |
| 106.5 | Pudong Radio 106.5 Voice of East Shanghai |
| 106.7 | Qingpu Radio Station |
| 107.2 | Shanghai Story Radio |
| 107.7 | China National Radio Music |
This is amazing!! I’ve been sitting on a video that I took of the radio dial in Shanghai, but never uploaded it because I didn’t know what I was listening to (and couldn’t figure out how to label the video).
Note the separation of stations by as little as 200 kHz (in other words, next adjacent channel). I wonder if this is for the whole province, rather than the one city.
It’s hard to say, since Shanghai is its own province. Maybe these are radio stations located outside of the city (without transmission equipment on the oriental pearl tv tower).
That station plays the hottest hits!
This is for the municipality in general. 17 of the stations listed transmit from the 1500 ft Oriental Pearl Tower, and those are separated by as little as 0.6 MHz. The others are suburban, many of which include their locale in their name (eg. Fengxian Radio Station in Fengxian District.)
Just for you - a streaming link!
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A prison yard?
As a native (mainland) Chinese often using self-brought Sony sets, I am very, very certain that current local regulations does not restrict foreign broadcast radio receivers transported into the region. Many local hobbyists (including some I know residing also in Beijing; others Manchuria region, Canton, et al) even self-import overseas models for comparison!
Some large metropolitan stations especially in the first half of 2010s often had programming blocks commentating ongoing and new local policies, usually with local officials and (sometimes) scholars as panelists. A significant chunk of such programming have disappeared over the last few years indeed due to rising political tensions domestic and abroad.
