BFM radio

BFM radio ranks 26 among 710 stations in France. High enough that the country hub carries it in its own tables, and far enough from the head that the neighbours below are a genuinely different set of stations from the famous ones.

The directory counts 57 opens against this stream. That is well above France's median and it is the reason the station sits where it does on the country list, since the ordering is the count and nothing else.

Nothing else in France's listing leads with information. 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.

On the same tag worldwide it is 3 of 74, which is inside the top quarter of every information station the directory carries.

Twice the local median and then some: 256 kbps where France's stations typically manage 128. Whether you can hear the difference depends entirely on what you are listening on, but the headroom is there.

The stream is served from audio.bfmtv.com, an address three other entries in France use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.