ITALIA Hits Italia

Position 163 of 400 puts this station in the middle of Italy's directory presence. The middle is worth browsing precisely because the ordering has stopped sorting by fame and has not yet stopped sorting at all.

The open count against ITALIA Hits Italia is three, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

Broadcasting in Italian, alongside most of Italy's other entries. The country page breaks the remaining five languages out with counts, which is usually a quicker read of who lives somewhere than any summary.

6 stations in Italy lead with italian and ITALIA Hits Italia is one of them, though the tag does not make the country's headline list. Across the whole directory 9 stations use it first, so the rail below runs well past Italy.

The stream address on this entry points at icy.unitedradio.it, which is where 32 other stations in Italy are served from as well. Platforms of that size carry the long tail of a country's dial, and they are the reason a listing can look broken when it is one host having a quiet hour.