RADIO RELAX Italia

In Italy's ordering this is number 103 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.

80s is one of Italy's headline genres in this directory, and RADIO RELAX Italia is one of 7 stations there leading with it. The country hub prints the same tag near the top of its own list, so this station sits inside the country's main sound rather than off to one side.

On the same tag worldwide it is 30 of 131, which is inside the top quarter of every 80s station the directory carries.

195 kbps, which puts RADIO RELAX Italia above the 128 kbps that a typical entry in Italy runs at.

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 station's site is at radiorel.ax, which sits under the .ax country domain rather than Italy's. That mismatch is usually mundane, a host or a parent organisation registered elsewhere, and it is the kind of small inconsistency worth seeing rather than smoothing over.