RFM - La Radio Couleur

Position 171 of 710 in France. The ordering is a click count and nothing more, but at this depth it still separates stations meaningfully, which stops being true further down the same list.

Broadcasting in French, alongside most of France's other entries. The country page breaks the remaining five languages out with counts, which is usually a quicker read of who lives somewhere than any summary.

Among 710 stations in France here, this is the only one that puts 70 80 hits first. The 70 80 hits rail below therefore leaves the country entirely, which is the more interesting direction to travel from a page like this.

The stream runs at 128 kbps, level with France's median. Bitrate stops being interesting once a station is at the local norm, and the useful question moves on to whether the stream stays up, which no snapshot can answer.

The format here is AAC+, against a listing for France overwhelmingly made of MP3. Both play in a browser; the difference shows up in how much quality survives at a given bitrate, where AAC has the advantage at lower rates.

Its audio comes from stream.rfm.fr. Two other stations in France stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.