RAI 2

RAI 2 ranks 78 among 400 stations in Italy. High enough that the country hub carries it in its own tables, and far enough from the head that the neighbours below are a genuinely different set of stations from the famous ones.

RAI 2 has no language recorded in the directory. We do not infer one. Guessing from the country would put every station in Italy on the same shelf regardless of what it broadcasts, which is exactly the kind of filled-in blank that makes a directory untrustworthy.

256 kbps against Italy's median of 128. Streams at this rate are the ones worth finding a good pair of headphones for, and they are uncommon: 70% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps at all.

The stream is served from icestreaming.rai.it, an address two other entries in Italy use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.

RAI 2 keeps its own site at rai.it. The address sits under Italy's country code, which lines up with where the directory says the station broadcasts from.