Radio Top Side

Radio Top Side 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.

With one recorded open, Radio Top Side 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.

Only two entries in France put local first. The tag is self-declared and inconsistent between countries, which is why the rail below is worth more as a way of wandering than as a filter.

The stream is encoded at 320 kbps, more than twice the 128 kbps median for France. Bitrate is the one quality figure the public directory carries, and on this entry it is unambiguous.

The stream address on this entry points at listen.radioking.com, which is where 33 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.