Hits 1 Cognac

In France's ordering this is number 338 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 Hits 1 Cognac 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.

19 stations in France lead with dance and Hits 1 Cognac is one of them, though the tag does not make the country's headline list. Across the whole directory 270 stations use it first, so the rail below runs well past France.

192 kbps, which puts Hits 1 Cognac above the 128 kbps that a typical entry in France runs at.

Its audio comes straight from hits1cognac-audiomediaradio.radioca.st, an address unique to this entry in France's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.