Radio Panik

Radio Panik sits at 47 of 122 in Belgium's listing, in the body of the list rather than at either end. This is where most of a national dial actually lives, and it is the part a country hub's first fifty rows never reach.

Radio Panik broadcasts in French from Belgium. That is a minority language on the national dial, where Dutch leads, but not a small one: 46 stations in Belgium in the directory carry French, which is a substantial second listing inside the first.

Where else French is on air, according to the same snapshot: mostly France, Canada and Switzerland. The shelf lists all 1,384 of them together, which is the view a country hub cannot give.

Two stations in Belgium lead with the tag alternative, and Radio Panik is one of them. That is a small enough group to hear end to end, and the tags are the broadcasters' own words rather than a classification imposed here.

The stream is OGG, which is unusual anywhere: Belgium's listing is dominated by MP3. Formats outside the common three are typically a deliberate choice by a broadcaster who cares about the encoding chain, and they are also the ones most likely to give a browser trouble.