France Musique (no pub)

France Musique (no pub) is at 185 in a listing of 710. Read the rank as a rough position rather than a standing: the click counts in the middle of a long national list are close enough together that a handful of opens moves a station several places.

Two stations in France lead with the tag classical music, and France Musique (no pub) 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.

At 107 kbps, this sits below most of France's listing, whose median is 128 kbps. 74% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better, so the dial around it is mostly higher.

This one is HLS, a segmented format rather than a single continuous stream. It is worth knowing because the failure is specific and fixable rather than a dead station: the address works, the browser just cannot open that shape of address unaided.

The stream address on this entry points at stream.radiofrance.fr, which is where 35 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.