Orbita24

In Italy's ordering this is number 169 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.

With three recorded opens, Orbita24 sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Italy's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

Among 400 stations in Italy here, this is the only one that puts 24/7 first. The 24/7 rail below therefore leaves the country entirely, which is the more interesting direction to travel from a page like this.

The stream is encoded at 256 kbps, more than twice the 128 kbps median for Italy. Bitrate is the one quality figure the public directory carries, and on this entry it is unambiguous.

The stream is served from radio.orbita24.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.

Their site is orbita24.it, a domain registered in Italy. Where a station's own address and its listed country agree, the entry is a little more trustworthy than one where they do not.