LFM

LFM sits in the tail of Switzerland's 126 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

The open count against LFM is one, 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.

The country's dial has two sizeable languages on it and this station is on the smaller one. 31 entries in Switzerland broadcast in French, against a listing whose commonest language is German.

The French shelf on this site collects every station in the language regardless of where it transmits from, and the directory's French entries are concentrated in France, Canada and Belgium. Reading the shelf next to this page is the quickest way to see how far the language's dial actually reaches.

Its audio comes straight from lausannefm.ice.infomaniak.ch, an address unique to this entry in Switzerland's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.