Controradio

Out of 400 entries in Italy, this one ranks 70. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

Controradio shares its leading tag, blues, with two other Italy entries. Across every country the directory has 78 stations leading with it, so the rail below is mostly a trip abroad.

On the same tag worldwide it is 9 of 78, which is inside the top quarter of every blues station the directory carries.

256 kbps against Italy's median of 128. Streams at this rate are the ones worth finding a good pair of headphones for, and they are uncommon: 70% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps at all.

Its audio comes straight from s4.yesstreaming.net:17199, an address unique to this entry in Italy's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.

The broadcaster publishes at controradio.it, on Italy's own country domain. A national domain is a small piece of evidence that the station is what the directory says it is, since these are the harder ones to register from somewhere else.