RFI

RFI sits in the tail of Haiti's 15 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.

RFI is the only station in Haiti whose first tag is news, out of 15 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in Haiti does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only news station.

At 96 kbps, this sits below most of Haiti's listing, whose median is 128 kbps. 84% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better, so the dial around it is mostly higher.

The stream is served from rfimonde-96k.ice.infomaniak.ch, which no other entry in Haiti uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.

The station's site is at rfi.fr, which sits under the .fr country domain rather than Haiti's. That mismatch is usually mundane, a host or a parent organisation registered elsewhere, and it is the kind of small inconsistency worth seeing rather than smoothing over.