R101 80

Out of 400 entries in Italy, this one ranks 73. 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.

80's covers 5 of Italy's entries. Tags on this site are always the broadcaster's own first tag and never a second one, because a station tagged five ways would otherwise appear on five shelves and turn each of them into a tag cloud.

On the same tag worldwide it is 16 of 62, which is inside the top quarter of every 80's station the directory carries.

At 96 kbps, this sits below most of Italy's listing, whose median is 128 kbps. 70% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better, so the dial around it is mostly higher.

Where Italy's stations mostly use MP3, this one uses AAC. Worth a line only because it is a difference, and because the country page's format breakdown is one of the quicker ways to see which providers a national dial runs on.

The audio comes from icy.unitedradio.it, and 32 other stations in Italy are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of Italy's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.