HitFM

HitFM is deep in France's listing, at 579 of 710. Down here the ordering barely orders anything: the difference between one position and the next is often a single recorded open, so treat the neighbours below as a shelf rather than as a ranking.

HitFM has a zero in the directory's open count. It is the least interesting number on this page and the one most likely to be misread, so it is worth being plain: it measures traffic through radio-browser, not audience.

No language is recorded against this station. The field is optional in the public directory and a great many entries skip it, so an empty language says nothing about what you will hear when you press play. It does keep the station off the language shelves, since a shelf built on guesses would be worse than a shelf with holes.

320 kbps against France's median of 128. Streams at this rate are the ones worth finding a good pair of headphones for, and they are uncommon: 74% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps at all.

The stream is served from stream10.vestaradio.com, an address six 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.