FM Italia

In Italy's ordering this is number 160 of 400, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

News is one of Italy's headline genres in this directory, and FM Italia is one of 9 stations there leading with it. The country hub prints the same tag near the top of its own list, so this station sits inside the country's main sound rather than off to one side.

The directory carries no bitrate for FM Italia. The field is filled from what the stream's own server reports when it is scanned, so an empty one usually means a server that answers without announcing itself rather than a bad stream. Italy's stations that do report come in at a median of 128 kbps, for whatever that is worth as a guess.

The stream is served from stream5.xdevel.com, an address three other entries in Italy use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.