Virgin Radio Rockstar: Rolling Stones

At position 252 of 400, this is one of the stations in Italy that almost nobody arrives at by browsing. That is the case for having a page at all. A station reachable only by knowing its name is a station most directories lose.

With two recorded opens, Virgin Radio Rockstar: Rolling Stones sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Italy's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

Broadcasting in English from Italy, alongside 51 other stations there doing the same. Italian is the country's commonest broadcast language in this directory, so this is the second shelf of a bilingual listing.

The shelf for the language holds 5,984 stations, led by United States. A station like this one broadcasting from Italy is what stops that shelf from being a second copy of one country's hub.

Nothing else in Italy's listing leads with blues rock. The tag is self-declared, which makes it a statement of how the broadcaster positions itself rather than a classification anyone audited, and on this dial that statement is unique.

33 of Italy's entries are served from icy.unitedradio.it, this one among them. A shared host means a shared fate. If this stream is silent, the fastest check is not this station's own site but whether its neighbours on the same platform are playing.