Rai Radio 1

Rai Radio 1 sits at 106 of 400 in Italy's listing, in the body of the list rather than at either end. This is where most of a national dial actually lives, and it is the part a country hub's first fifty rows never reach.

Rai Radio 1 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.

Its audio comes from icecdn-19d24861e90342cc8decb03c24c8a419.msvdn.net. Four other stations in Italy stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.

Their site is raiplaysound.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.