RTN

RTN 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.

RTN broadcasts in French from Switzerland. That is a minority language on the national dial, where German leads, but not a small one: 31 stations in Switzerland in the directory carry French, which is a substantial second listing inside the first.

Where else French is on air, according to the same snapshot: mostly France, Canada and Belgium. The shelf lists all 1,384 of them together, which is the view a country hub cannot give.

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

The stream is served from rtn.ice.infomaniak.ch, which no other entry in Switzerland uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.