abctamil

At position 459 of 565, this is one of the stations in India that almost nobody arrives at by browsing. That is the case for having a page at all. A station reachable only by knowing its name is a station most directories lose.

India's directory presence is led by Hindi, with 161 stations broadcasting in Tamil behind it. abctamil 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.

Where else Tamil is on air, according to the same snapshot: mostly Canada, Singapore and Sri Lanka. The shelf lists all 169 of them together, which is the view a country hub cannot give.

abctamil streams at 32 kbps against India's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 61% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

Its audio comes from eu8.fastcast4u.com. One other station in India streams from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.