Radio Suisse Jazz

In Switzerland's listing Radio Suisse Jazz lands at 32 of 126, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

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 shelf for the language holds 1,384 stations, led by France. A station like this one broadcasting from Switzerland is what stops that shelf from being a second copy of one country's hub.

Among 126 stations in Switzerland here, this is the only one that puts blues first. The blues rail below therefore leaves the country entirely, which is the more interesting direction to travel from a page like this.

On the same tag worldwide it is 11 of 78, which is inside the top quarter of every blues station the directory carries.

The audio comes from stream.srg-ssr.ch, and 19 other stations in Switzerland 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 Switzerland's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.