Boom Tamil

Position 65 of 259 in Canada. The ordering is a click count and nothing more, but at this depth it still separates stations meaningfully, which stops being true further down the same list.

Tamil does not make Canada's list of commonest broadcast languages, which the hub caps at six. A station like this one is invisible on its own country page's language chart and perfectly visible on the Tamil shelf, which is the argument for having both.

Tamil radio in this directory sits largely in India, Singapore and Sri Lanka, with 169 stations on the shelf in total. This page's station is one of the entries that make the shelf wider than any single country.

Among 259 stations in Canada here, this is the only one that puts cinema first. The cinema rail below therefore leaves the country entirely, which is the more interesting direction to travel from a page like this.

The stream is encoded at 192 kbps, more than twice the 96 kbps median for Canada. Bitrate is the one quality figure the public directory carries, and on this entry it is unambiguous.

The stream is served from streaming.boomtamil.com, which no other entry in Canada 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.