Radio Idea Italia

This is one of the quieter entries in Italy's listing, at 369 of 400. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

Radio Idea Italia has a zero in the directory's open count. It is the least interesting number on this page and the one most likely to be misread, so it is worth being plain: it measures traffic through radio-browser, not audience.

A dance station on a dial where dance is one of the commonest tags: 18 entries in Italy lead with it. The tags are broadcaster-supplied throughout, so read the count as how Italy's broadcasters describe themselves.

The stream is encoded at 320 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.

Its audio comes straight from radioideaweb.radioca.st, an address unique to this entry in Italy's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.

Their site is radioideawebitalia.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.