Virgin Radio Rock ’80

The directory lists two streams in Italy under this name, told apart by a number alone. This page is number eighty. Nothing here is taken from the other one.

In Italy's ordering this is number 191 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.

The open count against Virgin Radio Rock ’80 is three, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

80s rock 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.

The audio comes from icy.unitedradio.it, and 32 other stations in Italy are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of Italy's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.