Irulegiko Irratia

Irulegiko Irratia sits in the tail of France's 710 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

A combination the country page cannot show you: Basque sits outside the six languages France's listing breaks out, so the only route to stations like Irulegiko Irratia is the language axis.

Basque is not large enough in this snapshot to have a shelf of its own here, so the station's only index is its country. Shelves are built from the directory's commonest broadcast languages and the line has to fall somewhere; below it, the country hub is the route.

Abisuak is the station's own leading tag and no other entry in France uses it that way. Worth reading as self-description: the directory takes tags as broadcasters type them and does not reconcile them.

At 320 kbps, Irulegiko Irratia streams at more than double France's median of 128 kbps. That is a deliberate choice by whoever runs it: bandwidth is the recurring cost of an internet station, and a rate this far above the local norm is money spent on sounding better than the dial around it.