Cool Radio

In France's ordering this is number 320 of 710, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

The open count against Cool Radio is two, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

Cool Radio is the only station in France whose first tag is lounge music, out of 710 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in France does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only lounge music station.

The stream address on this entry points at listen.radioking.com, which is where 33 other stations in France 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.