RTL 102.5

In Italy's ordering, RTL 102.5 is at position 3 of 400. The stations above and below it are the ones the country hub prints first, so this page and that one describe nearly the same handful of streams from two directions.

The open count here is 150, a figure only a few hundred stations in the whole directory reach. It is a fair signal that the stream is reliable as well as popular, because a dead stream stops accumulating opens quickly once clients start failing on it.

RTL 102.5 is the only station in Italy whose first tag is local, out of 400 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in Italy does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only local station.

Worldwide it ranks 1 among 27 local entries, which is worth roughly as much as the count behind it and no more.

The stream is served as an HLS playlist, which is the format broadcasters use to switch bitrates on the fly and the one a plain browser audio element will not open. Nothing is wrong with the station; the player on this page simply cannot follow that kind of link without a library. The extension carries one and handles it.