RTBF La Première

At 23 recorded opens, RTBF La Première 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.

Broadcasting in French from Belgium, alongside 45 other stations there doing the same. Dutch is the country's commonest broadcast language in this directory, so this is the second shelf of a bilingual listing.

French radio in this directory sits largely in France, Canada and Switzerland, with 1,384 stations on the shelf in total. This page's station is one of the entries that make the shelf wider than any single country.

The news corner of Belgium's dial is two stations deep in this snapshot. Small clusters like that are usually the most rewarding thing on a country page, because they are what the national broadcasters at the top of the list are not.

On the same tag worldwide it is 40 of 307, which is inside the top quarter of every news station the directory carries.

The audio comes from radios.rtbf.be, and 21 other stations in Belgium are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of Belgium's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.