A9 Radio

A9 Radio is deep in India's listing, at 402 of 565. Down here the ordering barely orders anything: the difference between one position and the next is often a single recorded open, so treat the neighbours below as a shelf rather than as a ranking.

With three recorded opens, A9 Radio sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in India's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

India's directory presence is led by Hindi, with 161 stations broadcasting in Tamil behind it. A9 Radio is one of that second group, large enough that the country hub prints it as its own bar rather than folding it into a remainder.

The shelf for the language holds 169 stations, led by Canada. A station like this one broadcasting from India is what stops that shelf from being a second copy of one country's hub.

A9 Radio streams at 128 kbps, which is exactly where India's dial sits: the country's median is 128 kbps. Being unremarkable on this axis is the normal case and it is fine. 61% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better.

The stream is served from a9radio1-a9media.radioca.st, which no other entry in India 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.