Alta Frequenza

Alta Frequenza runs on talk. The hard kind. Top-of-hour bulletins, interviews that won't let a politician off the hook, phone-ins where callers get genuinely annoyed, and the long debate segments that French news radio has turned into an art form. It has a rhythm, and this station sits inside it. Listen for a week and you'll learn the shape of the day: headlines early, argument mid-morning, analysis after dark. The name reads more Corsican than Parisian, which suits a station that doesn't sound like it's broadcasting from a glass tower in the 8th. At 128kbps the voices come through clean, and…