Why does the radio station I select keep having to rebuffer?

Lately, whenever I try to play the CBC jazz station in the iTunes radio directory, it keeps stopping to rebuffer. I choose another station, let's say, Bossa Nova -- Sky.fm, just above CBC in the list, and there is no problem. Why is that?

think of buffering like poring water into a cup with a hole at the bottom of the cup. To keep the water flowing constantly you have to re-fill the cup faster then the water pores out.
If your having re-rebuffer frequently your not downloading the file fast enough to play that file continuously. When you look at radio stations you may some time see 56K, 128k, 256K. The larger the number the faster your going to have to download the file to play it continuously.
So if it's buffering frequently you would want to try the lower broadcast rate. ie 56k instead of 128k. Some of the things that can prevent a station from streaming continuously include: downloading other files, loading large websites, poor internet connections, poor wifi signal.

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