AIR Alappuzha

India's directory presence is led by Hindi, with 56 stations broadcasting in Malayalam behind it. AIR Alappuzha 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.

Malayalam radio in this directory sits largely in Bahrain, with 57 stations on the shelf in total. This page's station is one of the entries that make the shelf wider than any single country.

The stream is 95 kbps where India's median is 128. Below the country's middle, which usually points at an older encoder or a deliberate choice to stay light, and matters far more for music than for talk.

AIR Alappuzha publishes an HLS stream. That is a modern and perfectly good way to broadcast, and it is also why the button on this page may not start it: HLS needs a player that can read a playlist and fetch segments, which a browser audio tag does not do on its own.

The audio comes from air.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com, and 30 other stations in India are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of India's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.