NEW HITS RADIO Italia

In Italy's listing NEW HITS RADIO Italia lands at 44 of 400, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

The country page counts hits among its commonest tags, and this station is one of the 14 entries in Italy behind that count. Worldwide the tag leads 114 stations, which makes the rail below a very wide shelf.

Worldwide it ranks 10 among 114 hits entries, which is worth roughly as much as the count behind it and no more.

At 320 kbps, NEW HITS RADIO Italia streams at more than double Italy's median of 128 kbps. That is a deliberate choice by whoever runs it: bandwidth is the recurring cost of an internet station, and a rate this far above the local norm is money spent on sounding better than the dial around it.

The stream is served from newhitsradio.streamingmedia.it, which no other entry in Italy 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 broadcaster's own site is newhits.radio, on the .radio domain. That one is genuinely restricted: it is administered for the broadcasting industry and applicants have to show they are a broadcaster, which makes it a stronger signal than most addresses on these pages.