Alpin FM

Alpin FM sits in the tail of Germany's 1,409 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.

The language on this entry does not appear in Germany's language breakdown at all. The hub counts the country's six commonest and Bavarian is behind them, so Alpin FM is outside the national picture on the axis the site indexes hardest.

Bavarian 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.

Alpin FM is the only station in Germany whose first tag is alpenrock, out of 1,409 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in Germany does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only alpenrock station.

The station's own site is alpin.fm. The .fm domain has nothing to do with FM radio or with where a station is: it belongs to the Federated States of Micronesia and has been sold to broadcasters worldwide for years, so read it as branding rather than as a location.