WDR COSMO - Italia

Rank 911 of 1,409 in Germany. What that mostly measures is how many people have already found the station through this directory, which is a poor proxy for anything else and an honest one to publish.

WDR COSMO - Italia broadcasts in Italian from Germany, and Italian is not among the six languages the country's listing counts. That does not mean it is the only one: it means the country's Italian stations are too few to reach the hub's own breakdown, which is the sharpest kind of minority entry this directory can record.

The shelf for the language holds 490 stations, led by Italy. A station like this one broadcasting from Germany is what stops that shelf from being a second copy of one country's hub.

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

The audio comes from dispatcher.rndfnk.com, and 27 other stations in Germany 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 Germany's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.