Radio Mater

Radio Mater sits in the tail of Italy's 400 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

With one recorded open, Radio Mater 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.

Religious is the station's own leading tag and no other entry in Italy uses it that way. Worth reading as self-description: the directory takes tags as broadcasters type them and does not reconcile them.

Radio Mater streams at 32 kbps against Italy's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 70% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

Radio Mater streams from s2.shoutitaly.com. No other station in Italy is served from that address, and across the whole directory it appears one time in total.