Radio collection

Radio collection sits at 237 of 710 in France's listing, in the body of the list rather than at either end. This is where most of a national dial actually lives, and it is the part a country hub's first fifty rows never reach.

With four recorded opens, Radio collection sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in France's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

The station's leading tag is pop rock, shared with 9 other entries in France. It is a well populated tag here without being one of the country's defining ones, which is a common and unremarkable place for a station to sit.

Twice the local median and then some: 320 kbps where France's stations typically manage 128. Whether you can hear the difference depends entirely on what you are listening on, but the headroom is there.

The audio comes from listen.radioking.com, and 33 other stations in France are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of France's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.