RTBF Tarmac

RTBF Tarmac sits in the tail of Belgium's 122 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

RTBF Tarmac 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.

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.

Nothing else in Belgium's listing leads with hiphop. The tag is self-declared, which makes it a statement of how the broadcaster positions itself rather than a classification anyone audited, and on this dial that statement is unique.

The stream address on this entry points at radios.rtbf.be, which is where 21 other stations in Belgium are served from as well. Platforms of that size carry the long tail of a country's dial, and they are the reason a listing can look broken when it is one host having a quiet hour.